It’s hard to believe there was a time when The Avengers were basically the also-ran’s of the Marvel Universe. I mean, the X-Books were huge ever since the late Bronze Age thanks to Claremont’s work from the late 1970’s to the early 1990’s and the establishment of Wolverine as the […]
Stew’s Reviews
Stew’s Reviews: Batman & The Outsiders
See, I was supposed to have the closings on my house and the house I’m buying this week, but my buyer has run into problems, so everything has been pushed back, probably about a month. In the meantime, the wife and I have already packed up almost all of our […]
Stew’s Reviews: Heroes In Crisis
What are the time parameters for spoilers? As in, at what point do you bear the burden of protecting yourself from being spoiled rather than depend on social media and society to do it for you? I always say in regards to big blockbuster movies, the limit should be until […]
Stew’s Reviews: Maus
Recently on the podcast, we covered Watchmen. Honestly, it’s one of my favorite episodes we have ever done. It’s really high quality stuff, and I think we all put in good work discussing an important, brilliant book. But as the show was wrapping up, I brought up something I remembered […]
Stew’s Reviews: Absolute Carnage
I should really be doing more modern comics stories in this series. I mean, the people deserve to know if comics that came out recently are worth their time! And I, the hero that I am, will be here to show them the truth, so that they know what to […]
Stew’s Reviews: The Crow
This week’s article is a special Requests & Dedications edition, as the book was recommended by 411mania user SonoftheMountain! I have had a few of these over time. Power Girl was a request. Cerebus was nominated to me. Moon Knight was done on a suggestion. If someone throws an idea […]
Stew’s Reviews: Morbius, The Living Vampire
I loved the 90’s for comic books. EVERY character had a book. It was amazing. And by god, when it came to Marvel, I bought almost all of them. Darkhawk. Sleepwalker. Speedball. Nightwatch. Thunderstrike. Wasn’t there… didn’t FOOLKILLER have his own book for a sneeze? And Deathlok? I don’t care […]
Stew’s Reviews: Secret Empire
Let’s be honest. You’ve already seen the book that I am reviewing and the score I’ve given it, so you’re already thinking “Explain yourself, Stew!”. So I won’t meander on too much here; let’s just get to it. TITLE: Secret Empire Writer and Artist: Nick Spencer and, like, 38 artists. […]
Stew’s Reviews: Secret Identity
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned more and more about how much I actually really like the character of Superman. For the vast majority of my comic book reading life, I have viewed the big blue boy scout as the apotheosis of boring comic characters. Too powerful, too plain, too […]
Stew’s Reviews: Monstress
What I have discovered about myself is that I have a very love/hate relationship with independent comic books. The ones that I enjoyed in the last few years, I have tended to love. Even when I have only read the first trade or two so far, I have found titles […]
Stew’s Reviews: Battle of the Atom
Three straight DC articles and then two straight X-Men reviews? Rut City, am I right? No, actually, there is a reason for this. Bear with me. We just recorded a podcast all about X-Titles this past weekend, and I got to go into how I am the biggest X-fan on […]
Stew’s Reviews: Fall of the Mutants
It took a long time for video games starring famous comic book characters to be any good. Sure, we live in an era where take games like Batman: Arkham City or Spider-Man for the PS4 for granted because game companies have been improving on them forever, but in my youth? […]