The Programme (read the the TPB) 12-issue limited series (published by Wildstorm in 2007-2008) came highly recommended to me by my comic book dealer but I never got around to it until recently. I was not disappointed. Written by Peter Milligan (whom I knew from taking over Animal Man after Grant Morrison left) and drawn [...]

Hulk 24 Review: The Final Chapter in the Red Hulk Saga, brought to you by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuiness. I had blogged and podcasted when this Who is Red Hulk storyline took Marvel Comics by storm, and I went on the record to say how horrible Rulk as a character was, and how bad [...]

Avengers: The Origin Review: I had let these comics just stack up, as I was not motivated to read a retelling of something every Marvel fan already knows: Loki had used the Hulk to get to Thor, and his plan backfired, and The Avengers were formed. The reason why I hadn’t bothered to read this [...]

Amazing Spider-Man 639 Review: Part 2 of One Moment in Time, this time with no reprint gimmicks, Joe Quesada once again scripted his explanation and details for One More Day (the controversial storyline which reboot Spider-Man’s wedding). Without further ado, here are my pros and cons of Amazing Spider-Man 639: The Good Paulo Rivera’s artwork [...]

Marvel Comic Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada has returned to kick off his 4 issue run to explain why and how Mary Jane and Peter Parker were unable to get married, i.e. how Mephisto changed Marvel’s time-line. Amazing Spider-Man 638 (READ) is the first part of “One Moment in Time” (OMIT). Joe Quesada has been hyping this [...]

So I’m reading Action Comics from SCRATCH now as my next reading assignment. At first I was against going back to the Golden Age because it’s so hard to judge stories from back then, but my completest nature took over. It was a decision I have not regretted yet. Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster were [...]

So I read a cute story by Karl Kesel (a true pro, it wasn’t his fault that he had to use the sliding time-line) in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 37 (read) about the – ahem- first meeting between Captain America and Spider-Man. The footnotes said that this story took place between Avengers Vol 1 issues [...]

Who had the best Fantastic Four run? Who had the worst Fantastic Four run? That was the question I wanted to answer myself as opposed to believing the talking heads and parrots with no perspective or hands on knowledge of actually reading every FF issue, so I created a rating system and formula to create [...]

Well, after posting my Best Fantastic Four Creative Runs graph, as promised I finished Mark Waid’s Fantastic Four run, and added it to the total. However since Mark Waid pulled off the impossible: 30 issues, averaging 3.5 stars, I had to create a formula to compare comic runs. (This is different than my retirement project, [...]

Which creative team (or writer) had the best Fantastic Four run for Marvel Comics? I just started Mark Waid’s Fantastic Four run, which the message boards at the time had heralded as “the best Fantastic Four run since John Byrne”. Well, there’s a problem with that statement, and I have the statistics to back it [...]