Anyone interested in reading or collecting comic books should be familiar with the first issue of Fantastic Four and the timing of its publication. It is not just a classic story created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, but also helped define the time when The Silver Age of comic books began. Published in 1961, … Read more
If you’ve heard of the movie Mallrats then probably the first thing you associate it with is the director and writer Kevin Smith. His first movie, Clerks, was a hit due to its sincerity and the way people could relate to it. Most of us have worked the grueling retail job where we stood behind … Read more
If you were a 90s child, you may have grew up watching the FOX television show X-Men. It was animated the old fashion way with painted cells. This is unheard of nowadays, where everything is done on the computer. Despite occasional crappy animation and drawing errors, the show was popular and pretty entertaining. So what … Read more
When someone passes away, you tend to think of all the great things they had done. The thing though is someone like Stan Lee has done so much with their life that they have impacted the world in ways you never would have considered. Although Stan Lee is dead, controversy around how much impact he … Read more
And I thought I had a hard time for being too short. In Spectacular Spider-Man Annual 10, we see Spidey shrunken to microscopic levels. It apparently is a parody of the movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids which was released just one year before this story was published (what a coincidence!) and has similar gags. … Read more
For those of you who don’t know, Stan Lee was the person who came up with popular Marvel comic book characters like Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and many others. He had been interviewed a million times. However, there is one interview that is way better than most. It is sold on … Read more
Let me tell you about this great history of comic books documentary: Comic Book Confidential (1988). There are not too many comic book movies on DVD I’ve noticed, but this is definitely one of the best. It contains many interviews from comic book legends that other comic book documentaries have over looked. The Comic Book … Read more