February 21, 2012 in Comic Talk
Avenging Spider-Man is the the modern day equivalent of the the old “Marvel Team Up”. It features Spider-Man teaming up with his fellow Avengers to stop whatever threat there is. The important thing to mention is that these team-ups are about “Spider-Man” with another hero; not Peter Parker. This series is meant to have a [...]
February 21, 2012 in Comic Talk
As a rule, comic fans and fans of superheroes especially have to suspend their disbelief in a lot of matters. They have to accept that a spider drenched in radiation then bit a teenager and thereby gave him the powers of a spider, that four individuals went into space and were bathed in cosmic rays [...]
February 17, 2012 in Comic Talk
If you came into the store this week or watched Jamie and Teresa’s Valentine’s Day episode of The Packrat Show, you might’ve been confused to see Amazing Spider-Man 679.1. What the heck does that even mean? Well, for the uninitiated Marvel.1 was actually started in February 2011 and any issue with the .1 at the [...]
February 17, 2012 in Comic Talk
Those of you who are also huge Kevin Smith fans (or just wanted to catch a preview of next week’s The Walking Dead) no doubt checked out his latest show, Comic Book Men on AMC this past Sunday. Having recently gotten my Smith fix at Kevin Smith’s Live from Behind event, I was ready for [...]
February 14, 2012 in Comic Talk
Because nearly the entire crew have significant others there is no show this week and apparently this Valentine’s Day thing is kind of important. However, because it’s Valentine’s Day I thought to myself who among the women in comic books would I absolutely not go out with today? And now, for your reading pleasure I [...]
February 12, 2012 in Comic Talk
The following is a guest post from the most excellent Casey Dawson whose work you can also find on GeeksPodcast. Going forward he’ll be a regular contributor here with his OWN account, but because I forgot to create it sooner it looks like I wrote this. I didn’t. -Joshua Thief of Thieves is a [...]
February 10, 2012 in Comic Talk
To paraphrase the late, great Jack Paar on his return to The Tonight Show after a self-imposed three week hiatus: “So…. where was I?” (Sorry, for those of you who have no idea who Jack Paar was, you’ll have to Google him or go to Wikipedia.) Anyway, it’s been roughly six months since the “great [...]
February 4, 2012 in Comic Talk
Forgive me if this review, and any other review of “The Amazing Spider-Man” in the future, seems positively biased, because more than likely, it will be. I’ve decided to change the title of my reviews to “Average TJ” because I view myself as an average kind of guy, susceptible to bias that come from my personal feeling and preferences. [...]
January 27, 2012 in Comic Talk
If you read my Winter 2011 Pulls post you know that Aquaman was one of my favorites right out of the gate. However, we’ve now come to the end of the first arc, lasting 4 issues entitled Terror from the Deep. Rather than review the latest issue individually, I thought I’d start a new series [...]
January 26, 2012 in Comic Talk
Especially if you’re new to comics (and even if your’e a long-time fan), having an understanding of the history of comics can be a little confusing. How can you tell if a comic was from the golden or silver age? Well, I decided I’d make this handy go-to guide explaining what happened during each of [...]
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