The first issue of Mighty Avengers hadn’t done a whole lot for me. It had some fun dialogue, but between Ock-Spider and its place squarely in the middle of Crossover Event Hell, it was a bit of a tough sell. Listening to Al Ewing talk about the book on the Decompressed podcast with Kieron Gillen, …
There are still a couple of other Power Pack posts from back in the day, but I think my favorites have all been pulled over. So, let’s start something new-old, shall we? I only ever read the first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but they did inspire a few posts which are …
(Images from Power Pack #1 and #50. Art by June Brigman / Bob Wiacek and Jon Bodganove / Hilary Barta, respectively). Probably one of the better twists in Simonson’s run on Power Pack was the infamous Power Switch. Sure, super-heroes had swapped bodies before, and people with external powers like armors or rings had passed …
I finished binge-watching my way through all three seasons of Teen Wolf just in time for the premiere of the new season of Arrow, ensuring I will have an uninterrupted flow of impossibly-well-muscled men with their shirts off. Stephen Amell’s delicious abs, however, weren’t the only thing I noticed. As the opening credits rolled, that …
With Spotlight all caught up on here until I finish the next chapter, I think we’ve taken a sufficiently-long break from Power Pack that I can post some more of this stuff. 🙂 (from Marvel Age Annual #2, words by Louise Simonson, art by Jon Bogdanove and Art Nichols.) I’ve previously discussed Power Pack’s wholly …
As usual, once my brain latches onto something, it tends to go into mental pitbull mode. Peter Pan is no better at escaping those steely obsessive jaws, it seems. How obsessive? How about turning a gag line into a mission statement? There’s a bit right after Peter meets Wendy, when he says “You mustn’t touch …
I’ve been watching White Collar off and on via the Netflix for a while (I just finished season 2). And, while there’s some Scooby Doo going on with the longer-running conspiracy plots, I’m more than happy to put up with that because there really are what seem like unique and nuanced relationships at play within …
(cover of Power Pack #11. Pencils June Brigman, inks Bob Wiacek, colors Christie Scheele) If Marvel’s super-hero universe is the vehicle with which Simonson explores the many pitfalls and dangers of the adult world, the choice in and of itself comments on Marvel at the time. Power Pack’s battle is not only to maintain their …
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Five new posts means I get to pull over another oldie I liked. Unsurprisingly, it’s more Power Pack: (From Power Pack #17. Words by Louise Simonson, pencils June Brigman, inks Bob Wiacek, colors Glynis Oliver.) One of the greatest strengths of the work done on the Simonson run of Power Pack is the fact that …
There are a few things I wrote back in the day over at my Livejournal that I still like. Periodically, I’m going to be pulling some of them over here as reprints or what have you. (From Power Pack #8, art by June Brigman and Bob Wiacek. Before he transfers his abilities to the Power …
