Super Comic Fun Time!

Up first this week in the world of Omnibuses comes Spider-Man: Clone Saga Omnibus Vol. 2 written by  J.M. DeMatteis ,‎ Todd Dezago, ‎ David Michelinie, ‎ Terry Kavanagh, ‎ with art by Mark Bagley, ‎ Darick Robertson, ‎ Angel Medina, and ‎ Dave Hoover. Weighing in at 1,288 pages this volume collects a huge amount of all the Spider-Man titles of the 1990s.   Spider-Man faces off against his clone in...

Thor:Ragnarok opened to high expectations in the USA on Thursday 11/02/2017 Like a hammer deftly zooming over the horizon with incredible speed as if it were  on some predestined date with destiny, Thor:Ragnarok hit movie theaters in the USA last Thursday and it's impact echoes back over all of 2017's mostly excellent superhero films resonating all the way back to 2015's Age of Ultron. Even those of us who cannot remember what happened in the first two Thor movies are wanting to go back and see what we might have missed. After the Scarlet Witch put a vision in his mind, Thor heads off to the Waters of Remembrance in the Age of Ultron At the end of 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor booked off as he had had a vision of Asgard burning and being heir to Odin's throne he just had to find a way of stopping it. And in the opening moments of Thor: Ragnarok, he does it! He stops Rangarok! Cue credits! Not even time for a Stan Lee Cameo, end movie! Couldn...

On the eve of the opening of Thor: Ragnarok we dive into Walt Simonson's Thor Omnibus and take a look at the first four stories which introduce us to Beta Ray Bill and the idea that anyone who is worthy can wield Thor's hammer, Mjolnir. Thor (as Doctor Donald Blake) is summoned by Nick Fury when  S.H.I.E.L.D. detects a very fast moving object headed toward our solar system. An object that devours suns! When an imminent threat appears a half a galaxy away, Nick Fury seeks out the Mighty Thor! Thor heads off into space while in Asgard a very unhappy Sif is seeking a battle worthy of her skills to take her mind off of Thor. Upon reaching the fast approaching space ship, Thor is mistaken for a demon by Beta Ray Bill whose mission is to protect his people that have been under demonic attack for millennia. Thor is transformed into Donald Blake and loses Mjolnir which has reverted back into his walking stick. Finding the walking stick, Beta Ray Bill stri...

The Comic Book World is replete with things. At least three Things I can think of off the top of my head: The Man-Thing, The Swamp Thing, and Ben Grimm aka The Thing. And it's a well known rule of academia that if you have three things that may be only tangentially related, you can make a class out of it! Outside of comics we have a few cultural "Things", in 1893, Ambrose Bierce published a story called The Damned Thing about a hunter who comes to discover he is hunting some sort of Thing that is a color outside the range of human sight. In 1951, Howard Hawks released a movie, an opera, really, an opera without music called The Thing from Another World starring James Arnes in the title role of The Thing. In this movie, based on the novella by John W. Campbell Jr. called Who Goes There? which, itself is a tidy little bit of cosmic horror inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, an alien spaceship is discovered in Antarctica, the scientists start excavating and discover t...

Happy Halloween Comic Readers! So, in supplementation with Super Comic Fun Time's "As Spectacular As It Gets" Halloween Special we look at some horror comics! Or, at least, what we hoped would be horror comics: First up is True Blood #1 from IDW written by Ann Nocenti and Michael McMillian. True Blood was a TV series that ran on HBO from 2008 - 2014 based on a series of novels known as the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries. A competent comic but the world is a little obvious. More groan-worthy than fun. In this world, a synthetic blood is created and the vampires come out of their coffins. There are no subtle allusions going on here, it is all in your face. Vampires are just like us, except if it weren't for a synthetic blood product known as True Blood, then the vampires would be preying on us. This story is set on the vampire holiday of Coffin Night when vampires celebrate their liberation by burning their coffins. Sookie is a waitress and she is late be...

So, this week I didn't have anything ordered but I still have a couple of boxes waiting around for a video opening. Arriving at my door on July 18, 2017, the Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme Omnibus Vol. 1 collects Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme 1-40 and Ghost Rider 12 and weighing in at 1,064 page, this volume looks beautiful. I'm not sure exactly what the story is for this series but it appears that Doctor Strange is either dead, or thought to be dead. Flipping through the book, the pages look beautiful and Doctor Strange is sporting a wild hairdo on some pages that I highlight in the video. It even looks like Clea is back! As always, this episode features a poorly drawn cartoon and a small fight against the "Uhs!" I think they are finally in retreat! But ever must we remain vigilant! As always, hit the "thumbs up!" subscribe, and if you have read this volume or have any other opinions on Doctor Strange, leave your comments! And remember t...

Today From the Pile takes you back to that gilded year of 1994! The Cold War has been over for about two years.  The biggest trend in music has been grunge but that's all about to be over with the death of Curt Cobain. Natalie Portman will make her big screen debut in Luc Bisson's Leon: The Professional and Quentin Tarantino will will change and influence films for the next twenty years with the release of his second feature, Pulp Fiction. Quentin Tarantino's 1994 hit, Pulp Fiction 1994 will introduce the world to future Thor co-star, Natalie Portman in Leon: The professional Meanwhile on MTV, music hasn't been totally abandoned yet but they are pioneering reality TV with their Real World and are jumping on the animation train that started with the Simpsons in 1989 with the release Beavis and Butt-head in 1993. Beavis and Butt-Head #8 Beavis and Butt-Head was created by Mike Judge who would go on to create the long-running King of the Hill and The G...