I spent Saturday filling in some holes in my Jubilee collection. I got the first two trades of New Warriors (volume 4) from her time as Wondra. I always knew that existed, but just never sought it out for whatever reason. I wasn’t sure how big of a role she has in […]
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Stew’s Reviews: Stars & STRIPE
What is it with men and basements? There’s always the cliche about loser online trolls living in their parents’ basements, sure, but even adult men seem to have a fascination with basements. Whether they get turned into a “man cave” (and I really hate that term) or a work bench […]
Stew’s Reviews: X-Men – Phoenix Endsong
I hope you enjoyed our recent 100th edition spectacular! It was… a LOT of work. But I was happy to put it all together and take a look back at what all I have read for you guys in the past two years. And, wow, that only included books I […]
Stew’s Reviews 100th Volume Spectacular!
One-Hundred. I haven’t officially been counting or numbering these anywhere except in the files in which I write them, but this is the 100th edition of Off The Rack (or Stew’s Reviews, depending where you read this)! I’m a big fan of essentially-meaningless milestones, so I wrestled for a bit with what to […]
Stew’s Reviews: John Wick
I only recently got around to seeing John Wicks 2 or 3. I’m actually doing really well on that list of missed films from the 2010’s (COVID-19 has “helped”), and the Wick sequels were top priority there. I have been averaging four to five movies a week ever since I have been […]
Stew’s Reviews: Illuminati
Conspiracy theories would be fun if they weren’t so dangerous sometimes. As of this writing, we are still in the throes of COVID-19. I am saying it like that because I am hoping very much that by the time this goes out, that will all be over. But… it doesn’t […]
Stew’s Reviews: Firestorm
I don’t tend to review a lot of older books for this column, I know. It’s not entirely a conscious choice. Historically, when I have reviewed books from before, say, the 1990’s, they don’t typically get the attention that books from that era onward do. And I am a man […]
Stew’s Reviews: Marvel Zombies
My cat is really not having this article. I am usually able to write these in relative peace. I settle in on the bed in the spare guestroom, get something to snack on and some lemonade, and I got to town. Maybe one of the three cats will jump up […]
Stew’s Reviews: Street Fighter X GI Joe
I’ve never been a big Licensed Property kind of guy. When I read comic books, I want to read comic book characters. I don’t pick up a comic book because I want to read Stranger Things story. If I want Stranger Things, I’ll watch the show. When I want a […]
Stew’s Reviews: Daredevil Yellow
As I write this, I am in the middle of “social distancing”. Even though I’m not that far ahead on articles—only about two or three weeks nowadays, whoof—I’m curious where we as a society will be by the time this is published. Coronavirusmania is currently running wild. All public schools […]
Stew’s Reviews: Civil War
Missing issues is the worst. Despite the fact that I work close enough to a great comic store that I could walk there, shop, and get back to work all within my lunch break, I have a bad habit of only going comic shopping once every several weeks (if not […]
Stew’s Reviews: Flash Forward
This is a rather unintentional series I have cultivated. I have previously reviewed DC: Rebirth, Flash War, and Heroes In Crisis in this column. The overarching, Post-New-52 story of those books brings us to the very recently concluded Flash Forward, and here we are. It was never really intentional. Somehow […]