by Jarrod | Nov 30, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Don Alsafi. In May 2017, Marvel was in a rough place. Sales were low, as they had been across the board for all publishers — but in an age where Marvel movies are numerous, critically applauded, and routinely draw the biggest ticket sales of the year,...
by Jarrod | Aug 24, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF ‘WEST COAST AVENGERS’ CONTAINS SPOILERS. By Don Alsafi. In 1984, Marvel launched the West Coast Avengers. It was the very first spinoff of their Avengers comic, coming two years after their success in creating the first X-Men spinoff, The...
by Jarrod | Aug 17, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF ‘DOCTOR STRANGE’ #1-4 CONTAINS SPOILERS. By Don Alsafi. In 1951, Marvel Comics (then known as Atlas) launched a new anthology comics magazine called Strange Tales. It was originally a horror book, in the vein of EC Comics like Tales from the...
by Jarrod | Aug 10, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF ‘FANTASTIC FOUR’ #1 CONTAINS SPOILERS. By Don Alsafi. On March 8 1961, a new kind of comic book graced the newsstands. The product of writer/editor Stan Lee and stalwart artist Jack Kirby, The Fantastic Four #1 quickly introduced its cast...
by Jarrod | Aug 3, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF ‘INFINITY WARS PRIME’ #1 AND ‘INFINITY WARS’ #1 CONTAINS SPOILERS. By Don Alsafi. Back in March Marvel released Infinity Countdown #1, the beginning of their latest cosmic event saga. Or rather that’s what you might have...
