The Serpent Society is one of the best-organized, most successful coalitions of superhuman criminals in operation today. If Comcast customer support could have operated with half the efficiency of the Serpent Society, then I wouldn't have…
I grew up in a tough culture, the kind of place where it wasn't uncommon for a dispute to be settled by asking someone to "step outside." When I was a kid, I always had that imagery from a fisticuff culture in the back of my mind when I…
The members of the Sinister Six are iconic supervillains, drawn from Spider-Man's rogues gallery.
The Sinister Six has 50+ years of history and has had a least 20 different lineup configurations with a villainous cast that has rotated…
I bought my first comic in 1981. I was 7 years old. Although I can't remember the specific issue, it was a Spider-man comic and I got it out of a spinner rack in my local drug store.
Over 30 years later I have an old school spinner rack in…
In thinking about the Marvel Universe a common misconception is that it solely belongs to those with super powers. While the bulk of the main characters you will meet are super-powered, sometimes it's just good 'ole technology. Here is a…
In the world we live in, comic book crossovers come like clockwork, happening in virtual perpetuity. But that wasn’t always the case.
Way back in the mid-1980s, Marvel Comics decided to try the first real effort at crossing over titles,…
Like most major comic companies, Marvel has often mined the wells of the animal kingdom for some characters. Earth Nerd Adkins did a great list of some of the little known animal-based characters and I am going to highlight some that still!-->…
One of the great things about comics books the allowance it creates for impressively wild and fantastical displays of future technology.
And comic book technology isn't just little doohickey gadgets with the beeping and the blooping and…