This is potentially controversial, and may require a more detailed write up at some point, but pound for pound, I’d argue Daredevil has the most consistently excellent modern solo series of any Marvel hero. When you think about the greats that have blessed Matt Murdock with all time great, era defining runs (Miller, Nocenti, Bendis, Waid) it’s downright startling. [Read more…] about Daredevil Reading Order
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Black Widow Comic Book Reading Order
As the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s lone female Avenger (at least initially), Natasha Romanova has never had a larger profile or more eager fan base. The complicated Black Widow has a challenging, hard-to-trace Marvel comics continuity, worthy of her former days as a Soviet Spy.
The potential confusion for new readers with Black Widow is exacerbated by the fact that Marvel has literally never committed to a Black Widow solo title longer than 20 issues (even launching two separate solo titles that lasted a mere three issues!).
Nonetheless, below you’ll find a proper Black Widow reading order for the best double agent in the Marvel Universe. [Read more…] about Black Widow Comic Book Reading Order
Book Review!: “The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture”
In the age of the internet (slightly fewer cullings than the Age of Apocalypse), there’s an inversion of an old TV trope. Whereas we’ve all known the old “1,000 channels but nothing good on TV,” we now have 1,000,000 tweeted articles, but nothing to read. As always, this is an overstatement, but the value of intelligent, witty, interesting articles increasingly stands out. [Read more…] about Book Review!: “The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture”
Black Panther Reading Order
Black Panther! Brilliant, heroic, royal, and (before his movie) woefully underrepresented in Marvel Unlimited. Nonetheless, I’ve put together a reading order of T’Challa’s comics since his 1960s origin in Fantastic Four. [Read more…] about Black Panther Reading Order
Tokyo Ghost Vol. 1: “Atomic Garden ” Review!
The world has fallen to a “techno-pocalypse” dystopia where people spend their lives addicted to techno-organic internet feeds with nano-bot delivery systems that can inject you with pretty much anything you could want. The nation of Los Angeles is home to the virtually enslaved, the criminal poor, cannibals, and the gangster corporate ruling class that oversees it all. Police have been disbanded in favor of the private sector and the corporate enforcers of choice are the Constables. [Read more…] about Tokyo Ghost Vol. 1: “Atomic Garden ” Review!