CHAMPIONS #11 (1977)
I wish they didn’t insist on calling Bill Foster’s character Black Goliath.
Anyway, I’m pretty sure this was John Byrne’s first work with Marvel. At least, he’s billed in the credits as “introducing the pulse-pounding pencils of…”
This issue starts with a female driver joke.
Then, an interlude in the West where Ghost Rider, who is not with the team anymore, meets Hawkeye, who is still road-tripping with the time-displaced Two-Gun Kid.
Ghost Rider fights a stampede.
Then the team fights space invaders and blows them up.
It ends by showing us that next issue, we’ll see Stilt Man. I like him.
MOON KNIGHT #31-33 (1983): Doug Moench leaves
Bill Sienkiewicz is gone, but Marvel tries to hide it by keeping him on the covers. And he inks #33. And he’s on the promotional art (above). Again: He’s not…
HULK: GRAY #1-6 (2003-2004)
Hulk: Gray by Loeb and Sale. A fantastic examination of the Banner/Hulk struggle told from Banner’s perspective to Doc Samson during a therapy session. This is probably one of my…
New X-Men #134-138 (2003): Riot at Xaviers
Ever since Grant Morrison started his run on X-Men, he’s been slowly simmering a Phoenix storyline. Despite the cover of issue #134 featuring Jean Grey in flames, this issue is…
Thunderbolts #76-81 (2003): Series Ends
While the Thunderbolts team we all knew and some of us loved (I myself was largely indifferent) was busy breaking up in the Avengers/Thunderbolts miniseries, the pages of the actual…