Every Wednesday we take turns to delve into our trusty longboxes, pluck out a dusty back issue, and give you our thoughts. We’ll also try and place it in the context of the time it was originally published.
Uncanny X-Men just reached its 500th issue, becoming only the 4th Marvel comic to reach such a lofty [...]

After enjoying last issue a surprising amount, I promised I’d give this one a look too. And here we are.
Thor #8 proves to me that the previous issue was no one-off. The second of a two-part story sees Thor and Odin discuss what is to become of Odin now that Thor is running Asgard. Mixed [...]

Thor currently has an incredibly bizarre position. After going through Ragnarok and disappearing from the Marvel Universe altogether in 2004, he had a faked-out return during Civil War and eventually came back properly in Thor (Volume 3) #1 in 2007, written by Straczynski. Since then, he hasn’t appeared outside his own title, and I kind of felt like [...]

Whew. Lots of traffic and positive response to that Ultimates v3 “review” we posted earlier this week - hope some of you are choosing to stick around! Just in case, I thought I’d give a brief overview of the site’s raison d’etre for anyone new: The goal is to have one comic reviewed every weekday [...]

If there was ever a comic that challenged the Comics Daily “No Drama” rule at every single turn, this is it. 40 pages of nothing but industry drama exploding off the page. Is there even a story beneath this, the punchline to the worst editorial joke ever told? Apologies in advance, but this is going to [...]

I know there’s a self-imposed “No Industry Drama” rule on Comics Daily, but seriously, Marvel, you’re KILLING me here. With One More Day, readers face the challenge of knowing that this is one big editorially-driven clusterfunk of a story which seems to be heading towards some kind of demented reset-switch ending designed to excise a piece of continuity [...]