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Jem and the Holograms IDW Reading Order
Jem and the Holograms had been a popular line of Barbie-esque dolls from Hasbro, produced in the 1980s. The line had a tie-in cartoon series from Sunbow Productions, the company…
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Collecting X-Men: The Age of Apocalypse
One of the best-loved X-Men stories came out in 1995. Marvel Comics cancelled all of the monthly X-family titles for four months, and replaced them with a dark, dystopian world…
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Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers): Where to Start
Carol Danvers, also known as Captain Marvel, formerly known as Ms. Marvel, first debuted in 1968 as a supporting cast member for Marvel Comics' original Captain Marvel, alias Mar-vell. But…
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Drake’s Cakes & Marvel Comics: Part 2
Head back to yesterday's post for part one! EPSON MFP image
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Drake’s Cakes & Marvel Comics: Part 1
Back when I first got into comics in 1993, Drake's Cakes, maker of dessert snack cakes like Devil Dogs and Yodels, included one of four 16-page Marvel mini-comics (these little…
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The TMNT 2 Comic Adaptations are fascinating
In 1991, the sequel to the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was released. And since it was the early 90s and films stayed in theaters for more than a…
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Soggies May Rule!
The Soggies are the thing that gets your cereal all mushy and gross. They are led by the Sogmaster. They may rule.
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Spinister is the stupidest person in the entire universe
From Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #7 (2012) by IDW Publishing.
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Marvel Comics’ December 1991 Cool-O-Meter
Back in the early 1990s, Marvel Comics' identity was transitioning from the kistchy clubhouse that Stan Lee's Soapbox columns presented in the 60s and 70s, to a more corporate-minded entity.…
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Upcoming Marvel Epic Collections
Somehow, people are finding my site by searching for "Marvel Epic Collections," probably because I wrote a post explaining what they were, last March. Since I'm constantly researching upcoming Epic…
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2099: Creating A World
The following is from MARVEL AGE #117. Marvel Age was a comic that previewed Marvel Comics’ upcoming output in the days before you could just look it up via the…
This is Fine.
I went to the dentist yesterday morning. As always, he asked how I was doing. Of course, I had stupidly decided to quickly check Twitter while in the waiting room,…