By Miller C. Lashbrook This series was such a pleasant surprise. I have never been a big Venom or Carnage fan when they are not in a Spider-Man story. However, I wanted to read this series because I know it set up some things in Absolute Carnage. This series is a thrilling combination of PredatorContinue reading “Comic Review: Carnage (2016) #1-16 by Gerry Conway”
Category Archives: Marvel Comic Reviews
Comic Review: Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2017)
By Miller C. Lashbrook Black Panther: World of Wakanda is the perfect companion piece to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther (2016) storyline, “A Nation Under Our Feet” (Read my review of it here). Coates’ Black Panther book at the end of the day is T’Challa’s story; so, even though his book features many side characters, thereContinue reading “Comic Review: Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2017)”
Comic Review: Black Panther (2016) – “A Nation Under Our Feet”
By Miller C. Lashbrook This is modern superhero comics at its finest! Ta-Nehisi Coates brings his experience with real-world politics to Wakanda for a politically, philosophically, and spiritually intriguing story for T’Challa, that at the end of the day is still character-driven. There is a bit of continuity that leads into this run on BlackContinue reading “Comic Review: Black Panther (2016) – “A Nation Under Our Feet””
Comic Review: Spider-Women
By Miller C. Lashbrook As part of my reading of Marvel Comics from the past decade, I read the mini-event Spider-Women by Dennis Hopeless, Jason Latour, and Robbie Thompson, which crosses over the writers’ series, Spider-Woman, Spider-Gwen, and Silk, respectively. This mini-event is consists of an Alpha and Omega issue by all three writers andContinue reading “Comic Review: Spider-Women”
Comic Review: Avengers: Standoff by Nick Spencer
by Miller C. Lashbrook Over the past few years, as I consume more and more Comic Book based media and read more comics, I decided to go back and read a lot of old Marvel comic events. The most recent of these that I read as I made my way through Marvel canon is thatContinue reading “Comic Review: Avengers: Standoff by Nick Spencer”
Wiccan and Hulkling: My OTP
by Miller C. Lashbrook If you are not familiar with the initialism OTP, it stands for One True Pairing. The terms is used in fandom conversation, shipping culture in particular, that is used to refer to a fiction couple, canon or not, that an individual is extremely fond of discussing, viewing, and reading about. ThisContinue reading “Wiccan and Hulkling: My OTP”
Comic Review: Thor: God of Thunder Issues 1-11
by Miller C. Lashbrook “Oh my gods!” That is my initial reaction to Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic’s work of art that is Thor: God of Thunder. I am sure that many comic book fans and people with humanities degrees would agree that comic books can be art and often are. But, I am sureContinue reading “Comic Review: Thor: God of Thunder Issues 1-11”
Comic Review: X-Force (2019) Vol 1
by Miller C. Lashbrook While in socially distancing at home I have been gobbling up comics old and new on Marvel Unlimited. I thought that when I finish an arc or a set of issues that would be collected in trade paperback that I would write a reflection/review afterword. So, here is the first ofContinue reading “Comic Review: X-Force (2019) Vol 1”
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