Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Pow #4: Amazing Spider-Man #3: Nerd Fight
Stan Lee introduces us to one of Spidey’s most challenging foes, indeed the one who ultimately defeats him and ends the run of The Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2: Doctor Octopus!…
Holy Double Entendre Batman!: Week 3
Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman…
Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together (in color!)
I read Scott Pilgrim in its original manga-sized, black and white form when it first came out. With the final volume of the color version coming out this year, I…
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Pow #3: Amazing Spider-Man #2: Fighting Senior Citizens
Even in the second issue of his brand new series, Spider-Man gains enemies that are still around today. I forgot to mention in the video, it’s interesting that Parker is…
Holy Double Entendre Batman!: Week 2
Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman…
More Baltimore Comic-Con 2015 News!
I can now confirm that, barring any family emergencies, I’ll be covering Baltimore Comic-Con 2015! Just like last year, my intention is to do a combination of live-blogging and posts…
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Pow #2: Amazing Spider-Man #1: Who Is Peter Palmer?
Our Monday feature continues as we move from Spider-Man’s debut to the debut of his own comic. We take a look at how things have changed, what tropes were started…
Holy Double Entendre Batman!: Week 1
Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman…
Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and Gender Through Love Hina Part 13
note on all the image scans: they are correct manga-style so they are read right to left Spend enough time doing critical readings of media and you come across the…
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Pow #1: Amazing Fantasy #15
Welcome to a new video feature appearing Mondays in which we take a look at Spider-Man starting from the very beginning. Images used in the video: If the above video…
Sex Criminals Vol 2: The Honeymoon’s Over
Reading Sex Criminals Vol 1, one almost feels like Fraction and Zdarsky never expected to be able to get away with this comic. It’s almost even neatly wrapped up by…
Who is The Green Hornet? Part 3: Kevin Smith vs Mark Waid
Back in January I wrote about Kevin Smith’s take on The Green Hornet. In February I wrote about Mark Waid’s first two Green Hornet volumes. Although it’s not unheard of…