by Jarrod | Oct 27, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. T’challa, Marvel’s Black Panther, has always had a hard time getting a foothold with readers. The character was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1966’s Fantastic Four #52 but, despite a couple of notable attempts, mostly...
by Jarrod | Oct 20, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. Maybe you’ve been away from Marvel Comics for a while. Maybe you were chased away by too many crossovers, too many changes in too short a time, and the next time you looked at the comics racks the state of the Marvel Universe felt unrecognizable....
by Jarrod | Oct 13, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. Secret Empire is over, and everything is different. That’s certainly the case for Sam Wilson. While Steve Rogers was busy being an agent of Hydra, Sam carried the shield as a brand-new Captain America. But now Steve is back on the side of good,...
by Jarrod | Oct 6, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. So an angel walks into a bar, pulls up a seat next to a guy in a biker jacket, and promptly expires. No, it’s not the setup to a surreal existentialist joke, but rather the inciting incident in one of this week’s new releases. And even...
by Jarrod | Sep 29, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. It’s all led up to this. As we’ve discussed over the course of this series, Marvel have fallen on hard times over the past decade. Their sales took a hit, as did much of the industry, during the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Regrettably,...
