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With Greg Pak’s run on the Hulk having reached legendary status after nearly six years on the book, Marvel’s relaunch needed to have a new angle to explore that would continue the next chapter of the character while being enticing enough for new readers to jump on board a brand new #1. In that regard, Jason Aaron’s Incredible Hulk #1 is a success. Aaron has delivered a captivating setup that should please both crowds, offering an interesting role reversal for  [ Read More ]

Marvel, Ed Brubaker and Steve McNiven were not joking when they said ‘Captain America #1’ makes for a perfect entry point into the adventures of Cap for those leaving the theater after seeing Captain America: The First Avenger. While Ed Brubaker has been writing a sprawling Captain America epic for the past six years, almost none of that previously established continuity factors into this debut issue. And if there are some winks and nods to previous stories peppered in, let  [ Read More ]

The end of ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ #675 hinted that the villainous group, The Sinister Six, were about to take over. What it didn’t reveal was that the group was going to take over the entire issue. Other than the cover, our favorite friendly neighborhood wall-crawler is nowhere to be seen in this issue. Instead, what we get is the story of the Sinister Six facing off against their fellow super-villains of the Intelligencia. With the battle between two groups of villains,  [ Read More ]

From the beginning in Journey into Mystery, Thor’s arch enemy has been his foster brother Loki, which Stan Lee lifted directly from the Norse myths. Loki, god of mischief, was an infant when Odin slew his father and took the child to raise as his own. Much of the Norse mythology tells stories of Loki’s schemes and trickery among the gods of Asgard, a rivalry with Thor clear. Stan, Larry Leiber, and Jack Kirby didn’t real mine the sibling relationship  [ Read More ]

Superman and the Mole Men is a 1951 superhero film starring George Reeves as Superman and Phyllis Coates as Lois Lane. It is the first theatrical feature film based on the DC Comics character Superman, although two live-action Superman films had already been shown in cinemas, they appeared in a serial format. The film was produced by Barney Sarecky and directed by Lee Sholem with the original screenplay by Richard Fielding (a pseudonym for Robert Maxwell and Whitney Ellsworth), it  [ Read More ]