Bob Layton’s run on Iron Man is one of those era-defining ones that happened before my time. You hear this sort of thing mentioned all the time - Mark Gruenwald on Cap, Peter David on the Hulk, that sort of thing. In fact, these kind of runs are so era-defining that when you look back on [...]

It’s Superman, Superman and more Superman at Comics Daily this week. For plenty of good reasons - the recent judgment regarding Action Comics #1, obviously, and the publication of the brilliant All-Star Superman #10 are on our minds. But - and I can imagine you’re dying to know - what does John Byrne think of [...]

Just as Gaydos returned for his stint on Alias’ Jessica Jones last week, so this issue of New Avengers sees David Mack returning to the character he had a hand in creating - Maya Lopez, the deaf hitwoman-turned-heroine known as Echo.
Little is made of Echo’s powers in this issue. From her appearances in Dardevil, we [...]

Just when you think Grant Morrison can’t get any more metatextual – and this is the man who wrote Flex Mentallo and Animal Man, lest we forget – he gives us a Superman story in which the Man of Steel creates a microscopic, time-accelerated replica of Earth in order to observe the human race’s development [...]

Every Wednesday we take turns to delve into our trusty longboxes, pluck out a dusty back issue at random, and give you our thoughts. We’ll also try and place it in the context of the time it was originally published.
There was a time, before the earth cooled and the seas formed, when Chris Claremont was [...]

Christ, what a barren week. With the exception of Amazing Spider-Man and Ex Machina (both of which have been covered too recently on here for me to do again so soon), there was nothing out that I actually follow on even a semi-regular basis. I decided, then, to check out a few different DC titles [...]