‘Howard The Duck #16:’ The Bond Between a Writer and His Creation
Whenever I ask myself, “why am I such a loon?” the answer stares back with horrid obviousness–Howard the Duck is one of my favorite comic book characters. Now, I can hear all of you asking, “what is wrong with you?” and “what the hell is interesting about Howard?” My...
Black Adam #1: I Know Nothing About This Character, But He’s Awesome!
WARNING!!! SPOILERS FOR BLACK ADAM #1!!! Black Adam (as well as Shazam) is a character mostly unfamiliar to me. Sure, I know he gets his powers from a spooky magic rock (I can’t wait for the rock jokes in the movie), but I don’t know much about the character...
Death Dealer: From Frazetta, to Opus Comics
“You’ve never had a Death Dealer before?” Oh, it was such an elementary tactic from the worker at my local comics shop, but it worked. They also tried to sell me a book of Frazetta’s art and Image Comic’s mini-series done in 2006. I only bought the mini-series. Look,...