by Jarrod | Jan 19, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. Marvel’s first version of The Champions debuted in 1975. It’s hard to imagine a weirder collection of heroes with no real reason to be a team: Angel and Iceman from the X-Men, as well as Black Widow, Hercules, and Ghost Rider. It’s...
by Jarrod | Jan 12, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. In early 2017, amidst plummeting sales across their line, Marvel announced that they would be taking a break from line-wide crossover events after Secret Empire. Instead, they would be focusing on smaller events in (and between) the different families...
by Jarrod | Jan 5, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. Last fall, Marvel announced that they had commissioned indie cartoonist Ed Piskor for an ambitious miniseries called X-Men: Grand Design. The artist had made a big splash in 2013 with the Eisner Award-winning Hip-Hop Family Tree, published by...
by Jarrod | Nov 10, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. One year ago, Marvel was wrapping up its latest crossover slug-fest extravaganza, Civil War II. It wasn’t one of the better received events; apart from branding itself with an association to the sales juggernaut that was 2006’s original...
by Jarrod | Nov 3, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. Just over a year and a half ago, Marvel Comics launched a new Captain America comic with a final-page twist revealing that the Steve Rogers we knew had secretly been a Hydra agent since the 1940s. To put it lightly, the readership was largely outraged....