History of Comic Books Podcast

And now a rambling and too brief review of the original 1982  "Wolverine" limited series by Christ Claremont & Frank Miller, which featured the character in his first solo outing.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Whiteout" by Greg Ruck & Steve Lieber, a classic murder mystery set in Antartica

And now a ramblinga and too brief review of "We3" by Grant Morrision & Frank Quitely, a three issue mini-series from 2004 about cybernetic animal assassins that is a lot more powerful than the concept reads on paper.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "The Walking Dead" by Robert Kirkman, his seminal zombie series that reset the genre for the comic book medium.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "The Dark Phoenix Saga" by Chris Claremont & John Byrne, which collects "Uncanny X-Men" #129 to 138, agruably the greatest X-Men tale of all time.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Ultimate X-Men" by Mark Millar, Andy & Adam Kubert, the second series in Marvel's Ultimate line that rebooted the classic mutant team, along with eventually introducing Ultimate Nick Fury, who bares a strong resemblence to Samuel L. Jackson.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Ultimate Spider-Man", the flagship title that launched the Ultimate  universe at Marvel.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Torso" by Brian Michael Bendis & Marc Andreyko, which is a retelling of the true story of the Cleveland Torso Killings of the 1930's.

And now a rambling and too brief review of the 1997 "Men In Black" movie that is quite frankly, better than the original comic book.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Tom Strong", the classic adventure series by Alan Moore & Chris Sprouse.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "The Umbrella Academy" by Gerad Way & Gabriel Ba, their eccentric yet entertaining take one the superhero/fantasy genre.

And now a rambling and too brief review of the 2016 "The Tick" TV show from Amazon Prime, which this time satirizes the MCU and DCEU content of the time.

And now a rambling and too brief review of the "The Tick" 2001 live-action series, a hilarious but too short-lived adaptation of the comic book series.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "The Tick: The Animated Series", the brilliant Saturday morning cartoon adapation of the comic that ran from 1994 to 1997.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "The Tick: The Complete Edlund" by Ben Edlund, collecting all twelve issues of the classic satirical comic.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Superman: Birthright" by Mark Waid and Lenil Yu, their classic revamp of his origin for the 21st century.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Superman Chronicles Vol.1" by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, a 2006 trade that collected the very first adventures of Superman.

And now for a rambling and too brief review of "Stray Bullets" by David Lapham, his classic crime series he has been publishing off and on since 1995.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt" by J.M. DeMatteis & Mike Zeck, the classic six part tale in which Kraven the Hunter finally comes into his own.

And now this rambling but too brief review of "Spider-Man: The Death of the Stacys", that collects "Amazing Spider-Man" #88-92 to #121-122, two of the most tragic events in Peter Parker/Spider-Man's life.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Spider-Man: The Birth of Venom", a fantastic trade collecting the first appearance of the black symbiote suit in "Secret Wars" #8 to Venom's early appearances in "Amazing Spider-Man", documenting the beginning of one of Marvel's great anti-heroes.  

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Space Usagi", in which Stan Sakai takes his classic samurai rabbit into a space opera.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Scud: The Disposable Assassin" by Rob Schrab, which stars a robot assassin who learns that once he target dies, he explodes, so he has to everything possible to keep him alive.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "The Sandman: Season of the Mists" by Neil Gaiman and various artists, which collects issues #21-28 in which Morpheus attempts to rescue an old friend from Hell, only for Lucifer to have plans of his own.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Pride of Baghdad" by Brian K. Vaughan & Nico Henrichon, their 2006 graphic novel about a group of lions who escape the Baghdad Zoo during the Iraq War.