Comic Tropes: The Walking Dead
Since season 7’s premiere recently adapted issue #100 of The Walking Dead, I take a look back at that issue and make note of how many tropes the book includes. Also includes a quick look at The...
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Was it THAT Bad? The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The month of horror films and all things scary is over and that means my semi-regular feature of Was it THAT Bad? is back and returning to its comic roots. It’s the article where I’m asking the...
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Was It THAT Bad? Spawn
The Spawn comics first premiered in 1992 from artist Todd McFarlane and the property fully embraced all the 90s clichés that comic books had to offer. While I did enjoy McFarlane’s art, I never...
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Was It THAT Bad? The Shadow
For some reason, the mid-90s saw two pulp heroes from the 30s get adapted into motion pictures and both went down as being misses with the critics. One of those two films was The Shadow with the...
View ArticleComic Tropes: Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose
Originally, I was thinking of doing a video simply listing the ten worst comic book Christmas issues. But the one for Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose was SO supremely awful I decided to focus on just...
View ArticleComic Tropes: Todd McFarlane’s Spawn
I head back to the early 90s when comics were selling in massive quantities and at the top was Todd McFarlane and his Image comic Spawn. I run down a handful of tropes and read issue 6 of the comic....
View ArticleComic Tropes: Alan Moore’s Miracleman
Alan Moore is one of the most respected writers in the history of comic books. I take a look at his handful of tropes and look at Miracleman #3 to see how many we come across. Since Moore is known for...
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Was It THAT Bad? The Phantom
As I promised in my look at The Shadow, I’m here for another installment of Was It THAT Bad? and taking a look at another pulp character adaptation from the 90s. During this decade, Hollywood thought...
View ArticleComic Tropes: Ghost in the Shell
In 1989, Masamune Shirow began telling the story of Ghost in the Shell as a manga. I glide through the first volume, over 350 pages, pointing out tropes of Cyberpunk that were featured and elements...
View ArticleComic Tropes: Tales from the Crypt
For October I visit Midtown Comics in New York City to get an omnibus of EC’s Tales from the Crypt. Then I recap three of my favorite short stories and mix up some Halloween cocktails. It’s… to die for.
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