Tag: comicbooks

“He Kinda Looks Like A Supervillain”- A Look at the Clues- And Responses- To Funky Flashman

This is not an article which attempts to inform you on the history behind Jack Kirby’s character Funky Flashman, a brilliant send-up and factually correct satire of Stan Lee. That’s been covered numerous times to varying degrees of success and factual correctness, notably on the excellent According to Kirby blog. No, today we’re going to […]

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“Look, Stan’s relationship to the truth is very interesting…” Evaluating the Exhausting ‘Stan Lee: A Marvelous Life’

Among the various comments I’ve seen regarding Four Color Sinners, one stood out to me, and its content was not surprising: when our article about POW! Entertainment’s many failed ventures were shared to someone’s Facebook page, a guy remarked- without reading, natch– that this was the product of a “Stan hater.” This is to be […]

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“That’s When All The Gimmicks Are Over…” A Review of ‘Slugfest: Inside the Epic 50 Year Battle Between Marvel and DC”

The first thing I’d like to do is give Reed Tucker credit for taking the time to sift and compile both well known and lesser known information into a cohesive and mostly engaging narrative that will keep you occupied on a train ride and that’s not faint praise, I promise. While this is notable for […]

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