Fantastic Four #563 (Marvel – Millar / Hitch) Mister and Mrs. Thing! And a threat from the world of 1985! Plus: Who are the Masters of Doom? Here’s the beautiful thing about Mark Millar. This issue is an issue between story arcs, you know… the throwaway. The one that snips off a few loose ends [...]

Fantastic Four #562 (Marvel – Millar / Hitch / Smith) The story we had to call “A Fantastic Four Wedding And A Funeral”… Well, that is what Marvel had to call it.  I call it Amazing!  I have been reading FF for 25 years and this one of the top 5 story lines of all [...]

Wolverine #70 (Marvel – Millar / McNiven) “OLD MAN LOGAN” Fifty years ago the heroes of the Marvel Universe were massacred and as far as Old Man Logan is concerned, WOLVERINE died with them. During that final battle, something happened to Logan…something so traumatic that he hasn’t popped his claws since. Now Logan lives out [...]

Fantastic Four #561 (Marvel – Millar / Hitch / Mounts) “The Death of the Invisible Woman” concludes, with…well, the death of the Invisible Woman! Once again, sorry for the delay of this review… Millar’s Fantastic Four (along with his Old Man Logan story) are a few of the exceptions of the present decline of ideas [...]

Wolverine #69 (Marvel – Millar / McNiven / Vines) In a decimated future where America is dominated by super-villains, old man Logan lives out his days, but as far as he’s concerned, WOLVERINE died fifty years ago with the rest of the super heroes. Now he’s on a cross-country journey with the blind archer HAWKEYE [...]

Marvel 1985 #6 (of 6) (Marvel – Millar / Edwards) At last—the heroes are here! The biggest, most powerful Marvel Super Heroes throw down in final conflict against the cruelest, most evil Marvel Super-Villains, with the fate of the real world in their hands. For young Toby Goodman, will this be a chance to see [...]

Marvel: 1985 #5 (of 6) (Marvel – Millar / Edwards) Toby Goodman’s figured out the only way he can save the real world of 1985 from an invasion of super-villains from the Marvel Universe—but to do so he has to lay his life on the line and journey to the one place he never imagined [...]

Marvel: 1985 #4 (of 6) ( Marvel – Millar / Edwards) The villains are here—in our world—and no one can stop them! No cop, no army, no government stands a chance when the Red Skull leads Marvel’s greatest menaces into an all-out war against a world with no heroes! Young comic-book fan Toby has a [...]

Wolverine #68 (Marvel – Millar / McNiven / Vines / Hollowell) “OLD MAN LOGAN” Part 3 of 8, 50 years after the super heroes died, WOLVERINE and the blind archer, HAWKEYE, continue their journey across a ruined America. Next stop: Cedar City, Utah—home of the man who killed Magneto: the all-new, all-different KINGPIN! And he [...]

Fantastic Four #559 (Marvel – Millar / Hitch / Currie) You should have remembered the old adage, Johnny: love the woman, love her family. And when the woman is the super-villain called Psionics, that raises the stakes to a whole other level. Now it’s the morning after, and Lightwave, Natalie X, Alex U-16, Doc Banner [...]

Marvel 1985 #3 (Marvel – Millar / Edwards / Workman) They’re coming for us. The most dangerous villains in the Marvel Universe are here—in our world—and they’re not taking prisoners. The only people who stand between salvation and destruction are 13-year old Toby and his dad, who once was friends with the enigmatic Clyde Wyncham. [...]

Wolverine #66 (Marvel – Marvel Millar / McNiven / Vines / Hollowell) “OLD MAN LOGAN” Part 1 (of MARK MILLAR and STEVE MCNIVEN—who last teamed for the monumental CIVIL WAR—bring us the most important WOLVERINE story of the 21st Century. Nobody knows what happened on the night the heroes fell. All we know is that [...]