Continuing my regular column of comic book top tens, a focus this week on Marvel’s skull-shirted Charles Bronson wannabee.  Inspired by the reference to him in the newspaper headline read by the cabbie in the opening shot of the trailer for the 2010 Avengers cartoon.  A favorite regular comics column that I read, “Comics Should [...]

Call it a retcon.  Call it a reboot.  Call it a revamp.  Just don’t call it a comeback.  I asked for your votes a few weeks ago on the writer and/or artist who most “redefined” a character.  The main criterion was that the character had to be someone else’s creation, not their own.  Between e-mail [...]

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve bifurcated my usual discussion of spandex and superpowers into a two-day extravaganza this week.  Please, drop me some comments.  My blog isn’t taken seriously by the comic book blogworld, and I’d like to change that!  I know I’m usually about tunes and funny pictures, but who says a [...]