There are several ways to view superheroes who have been around for decades. Some prefer to see Spider-Man as a well-balanced everyman, while others see him as exceptionally nerdy. Superman might be an alien pretending to be human, or he could be as human as they come in personality. However, I believe no superhero has [...]
When the X-Men made their move to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2008, one of the things Marvel’s editorial team kept promoting was the return of Dazzler to the X-Men. Dazzler hasn’t been part of the team since the 1980’s, where she began a relationship with fellow X-man Longshot. During the 90’s, both Dazzler [...]
This one is for my generation, and the generations before me. As everyone knows, the cartoons of your childhood were the greatest ever made, and today’s cartoons are just terrible. If you grew up on the Superfriends, you probably thought the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were just plain stupid. Likewise, I grew up watching Ren [...]
Back in the 1970s and 80s, American broadcast television networks like NBC, CBS, and ABC began to fear cable television. Whereas broadcast networks had to appeal to many different audiences during different days and times, cable had the potential to create hundreds of networks targetted toward any one specific audience. They feared cable would put [...]
Back in 2006, Richard Branson decided to expand his immensely huge Virgin company into the realm of comic books. To do so, he teamed up with Dr. Deepak Chopra, Gotham Chopra, Shekhar Kapur, Sharad Devarajan, and Suresh Seetharaman in founding Virgin Comics.
Back in 1974, a clawed little Canadian man appeared as an antagonist in an issue of The Incredible Hulk. One year later, he popped up as a new recruit in the X-Men. Overall, he wasn’t that interesting in those days. He was almost written out of the book in favor of giving more panel time [...]
In 2008, Marvel Comics launched Captain Britain & MI-13, a comic about the UK’s premier superhero and a team of superpowered secret agents. Since its opening story arc, the book has had fairly low sales despite its glowing reviews. These aren’t exactly the most well known superheroes around, so a little word of mouth seems [...]
