Just about every comic book fan remembers the “What If?” title, hosted by the Watcher, fondly.  The stories told fanciful, possible, alternative outcomes to classic Marvel storylines.  (But be warned: If you actually go back and re-read your yellowing-newsprint copies, you’ll probably wonder why you saved them in the first place.)  I recently uncovered a [...]

Courtesy of a reader…Loston Wallace.

IGN published a top 100 comic book heroes that made me crazy, both in its predictability (Hey! Superman and Bats are #s 1 and 2!), overinclusiveness (every single Robin except Damian Wayne (who is the most interesting one by far), as well as Superboy and Supergirl?  Really?) and its attempts to be esoteric without providing [...]

These days, I’ve got the Fantastic Four on my mind.  Why?  Because I just started reading Ultimate Fantastic Four (I know, I’m years behind the power curve on it) and because I just ordered the John Byrne Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 1.  And yet, despite all this transfer of wealth to Marvel comics, I don’t [...]

What to buy, what not to buy from the past month. WHAT TO BUY: THE TOP 5 TRADES OF JUNE 2011 These get a 100 percent solid recommendation from this city corner of the interwebs: Honorable mention:  X-Men: Second Coming.  This gets  a mention because it’s a lot of fun.  The tale of Hope coming [...]

Howard Stern?!  Really?!  Yes!  Hit the break!  But in the meantime, check out this amazing cover for this year’s Marvel event, “Fear Itself.”

Check gutters dot com out.  Hilarious.