Fantastic Four #1

Recently I learned three things. First, that pressing 'ctrl+z' one too many times in Blogger will delete the entire content of a draft post; second, that Blogger does not allow you to revert to an earlier draft in the event of accidentally losing your most recent one; and third, that I really need to start keeping offsite backups of any posts I'm writing.

And so here is my second attempt at reviewing that most sacred of Marvel's cows: Fantastic Four #1.

Secret Wars II #9 - Part Two

In the last blog post we left you with The Beyonder deciding that everything is still shit and there's no way he can make it better for himself by being mortal because (quite reasonably, based on his general behaviour and demeanour) everyone thinks he's a twat, and some of those people are quite powerful. So he (again) is contemplating just destroying everything, because fuck everyone else, right?

Secret Wars II #9 - Part One

In 1984 Marvel published Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, a massive toy advert limited series in which several heroes and villains are whisked away to another world to do battle with each other for the amusement of a being called The Beyonder.

A year later Secret Wars II became the first Marvel Comics Event, with not only a limited series but also an extended storyline that was woven into almost every published title of the time. Now, I could spend time going through the whole thing, but frankly that would take ages and I can't be arsed, so I'm skipping ahead to issue #9 of the main series, which I am assured is proper batshit and probably far more entertaining to write about than Daredevil #1 is proving to be.

Fantastic Four Annual #6 - Part Two

In Part One of this review we left our heroes escaping the power-mad clutches of Annihilus with the Cosmic Control Rod as he prepared to unleash the fearsome Borers upon them...

Fantastic Four Annual #6 - Part One

After my last blogpost I decided to take a break from being mean about classic Marvel comics to prepare for the birth of my daughter, who joined us on a Tuesday in June (therefore not interrupting my Monday comic reading on Marvel Unlimited). So it seems appropriate that I mark my return to this endeavour with the comic that introduced Marvel's first baby: the Fantastic Four Annual #6.

Avengers #1

1963 brought many things that would have a long reaching effect on the world: The Beatles' rise to international fame, the assassination of JFK, the first transmission of an odd little educational sci-fi programme called Doctor Who... but surely none of these things could be as stupendous as the coming together of Earth's mightiest super-heroes? Well, True Believers, we're about to find out as I swear about... The Avengers!