by Jarrod | Feb 9, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. When Marvel first announced their current “Marvel Legacy” initiative, they described it as a return to their roots, with a new focus on bringing several of their icon characters, some of whom had been off the table for the last several...
by Jarrod | Feb 2, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. In the summer of 2008, Mark Millar and Steve McNiven debuted in the pages of Wolverine a story called “Old Man Logan”, a post-apocalyptic future of the Marvel Universe in which superheroes had been finally defeated by their villainous...
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 | 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,...
