Guest Blogs Archive

My celebration of Thor continues this weekend with a guest post I provided for the Sequart Research & Literacy Organization, aka Sequart.org, about Thor’s “identity crisis” during the first few years of existence. In this article, I examine how the original Journey Into Mystery creative team of Stan Lee,

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With the Flash Thompson Venom series ending its runs after 42 issues (my thoughts on the end of that series later this week), I thought it would be apropos to give the Venom: Lethal Protector #1, the solo debut of the symbiote, the “Gimmick or Good?” treatment in my

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My most recent submission for Gimmick or Good? over at the Comics Should Be Good blog is a bit of a deeper cut. Crazyman #1, which was published by Continuity Comics (founded by Neal Adams) is die-cut into the shape of a man’s profile. Let me be clear here:

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Better late than never, the good people at Comics Should Be Good published my latest installment of “Gimmick or Good?” over New York Comic Con weekend, so for those of you who may have missed my column the first time around, may I present to you my thoughts on

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I’m back guest blogging at one of my favorite comic book sites on the internet, Longbox Graveyard. This time around I’ve written a more personal look at Daily Bugle reporter Ben Urich, who first appeared in Daredevil #153 but was made famous during Frank Miller’s iconic first run on

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Taking a cue from the current pages of Superior Spider-Man #1, for my latest Gimmick or Good? column at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog, I take a look at 1992’s Spider-Man 2099 #1. This red foil book was the first installment in Marvel’s 2099 line and featured a

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It may be 20 years after the fact, but I’ve recently discovered the greatness that was Peter David’s run on The Incredible Hulk. As such, for my most recent edition of Gimmick or Good? at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog, I reviewed the neon colored Incredible Hulk #377,

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An article of mine was published today on a blog that has a lot in common with Chasing Amazing. Among other things, The Longbox Project runs personal stories and recollections from comic book readers/collectors about what a specific issue means to them. I was very fortunate to have my

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My Gimmick or Good feature at Comics Should Be Good returns with one of the biggest selling comics of all-time, X-Force #1, which features the artistic stylings of the controversial Rob Liefeld, with script by long-time “X” writer Fabian Nicieza. This comic came in a polybag with a trading

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The fifth installment of my ongoing series about the Walking Dead comic book series has been posted on the Sequential Research & Literacy Organization’s home page (aka sequart.org). In this series, which runs every other Friday on Sequart, I look at “garden and wilderness” themes in Kirkman’s wildly popular comic

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