I wanted to expand the spoilers / commentary section to be a much more regular part of the Pullbox, and until a title with wit is come up with… this will simply be called the Pullbox News. Also, this week was one of those weeks where you go to your local comic shop and there [...]

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In Mighty Avengers #3 we find that Ultron has somehow taken over Tony Stark’s body and armor and has transmuted them into a naked clone of The Wasp (nope, not lying), Hank Pym is getting a more-than-friendly room call from Tigra and apparently Tony’s contingency plan upon his supposed death has to deal with the [...]

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  Silent War #5 (Marvel – Hine / Irving) – Silent War is Marvel’s C-level major cross over event of the season, chronologically it is placed between the end of Civil War but before World War Hulk and seems slightly out of continuity. This story line is actually an aftermath of Marvel’s House of M [...]

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer seaon 8 #4 (Dark Horse – Whedon / Jeanty) This issue we get the same great story telling, backed up with pretty good art. The story picks up where the last one left off with Ms. Willow Rosenberg in the clutches of one pissed off bad guy. Buffy, Xander, and the [...]

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  Superman #663 (DC – Busiek / Pacheco / Merino)- This is chapter two of the Camelot Falls storyline; highlighting the return of Arion of Atlantis.  I was proud of Dan Dido and the DC crew who had the guts to take Superman (their most recognizable and the ultimate flagship character) out of action for a [...]

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Hey guys, I want to thank everyone who has for checking out Strongbad’s pullbox, I have gotten some really wonderful feedback from my friends here at heroestv.com and those outside of our community that I have been able to bring into the forums… I am having such a blast doing this. But, what I have [...]

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Okay, let’s be honest… when someone hands me an anthology of independent stories that was self-published, I smile politely but I am usually not enthused. Self-published independents for me are usually like buffet lines, occasionally really good, sometimes really bad… but usually just so-so. Well, while at the Motor City Con, I was handed copies [...]

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What I have below is my original review of the the Mouse Guard books and then the Interview Greg and I had with David Peterson Mouse Guard (Archaia Studio – Petersen) The first time I saw Mouse Guard on the shelf, I thought, “More kid crap” and passed over it for months. Then after hearing [...]

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I’m going to try to do one of these segments ever week to just tie up some of the stuff I didn’t get to reviewing in full… Warning: Spoilers abound! As I said in the JSA review this week, it turns our Starman is a little bit off his rocker because he has been reality [...]

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  Dead High Yearbook (Dutton Juvenile – Velez / various) PARENTAL WARNING: This is not for the thirteen year old who wants to explore graphic novels, this is for that teen / adult who like their meat raw. I picked this book up from my local library, as is my habit with one-shot books that [...]

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Ex Machina #28 (Wildstorm / DC – Vaughan / Harris / Clark)- In case you didn’t know it, Brian K. Vaughan is still the mayor of “Storyville”.  You would think after years of being one of the headlining premier storytellers of the twenty first century, Mr. Vaughan would write a dud every now and then… [...]

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