Guest Blogs Archive

The second part of my Walking Dead series has been posted on the fantastic Sequart Research & Literacy’s Organization’s web site today (aka, Sequart.org). In this piece I focus on Walking Dead’s second arc, issues #7-12 (which deals with the group trying to find a new home and stumbling

Read More...

Today’s “Gimmick or Good” column for CBR’s Comics Should Be Good focuses on what many consider to be one of the worst comics of all-time: Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood #1. This comic was the flagship title for Image Comics when the publisher launched in 1992. Today, Image is one of

Read More...

For my Gimmick or Good column at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog, I’ve already talked about the “Death of Superman” and the “Breaking of the Bat” arcs, that saw the (temporary) ends of two of DC’s flagship superhero characters. Today, I complete the trifecta with Green Lantern #50,

Read More...

The first in a series of posts I’m working on about the Walking Dead comic book series was published on Sequart Research & Literacy Organization’s site today. In these posts, I look at individual Walking Dead arcs and explore the theme of the “garden and the wilderness,” i.e. moments

Read More...

Today, I make my long-awaited return guest blogging for one of my favorite comic book sites around the Internet, Longbox Graveyard. This post is the comic book blogging equivalent of a two-for-one sale: I cover the sometimes acrimonious, sometimes heart-warming relationship between two of my all-time favorite characters, Human

Read More...

As if the comic book blogosphere hasn’t talked enough about Superman the past week, I’ve thrown my hat in the ring (in addition to my Superman/Spider-Man re-post earlier today) by focusing on 1993’s Adventures of Superman #500 in my latest entry of “Gimmick or Good?” at CBR’s Comics Should

Read More...

Today, I provided the Sequart Research & Literacy Organization with another injection of the Webhead with my analysis on Spider-Man’s “no kill code,” and how the Superior Spider-Man series has thrown 50 years of tradition and history out the window in favor of a hero who’s not afraid to

Read More...

Well, I’ve finally gone over the deep end. Tired of writing about superheroes and critically acclaimed comic book series like Sandman, I decided to tackle trash journalism disguised as a comic book in my latest installment of Comic Should Be Good’s Gimmick or Good? feature. I “analyze” He Said

Read More...

Another article of mine has been published by the fantastic Sequential Research & Literacy Organization (aka, sequart.org), this one about some of the imperialistic themes featured in the all-time classic Stan Lee/Jack Kirby Galactus Trilogy storyline originally featured in the Fantastic Four series. For this submission, I use this classic three

Read More...

I’ve managed to stir some controversy with my latest installment of Gimmick or Good? on CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog. I reviewed 1992’s die-cut foldout cover, Punisher War Zone #1, which includes a very famous scene of Punisher “torturing” a crime goon with a popsicle. But is this

Read More...