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Amazing Spider-Man #4 Review

Peter Parker is once again in control of his body, and is thus once again the Amazing Spider-Man. But after Otto Octavius made so many sweeping changes in his life, he’s got a few surprises coming to him, especially when...

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Great Artist Edition

There are a great many talented men and women who have made their mark in the decades since somebody had the idea to staple newsprint pages together and call it a funny book. Being an amateur comics historian and general blowh...

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Retro Review: Alpha Flight #6 (January 1984)

At the time of this issue, Canadia’s premiere super-team, Alpha Flight, has only been together for a short time, and hasn’t really gelled as a unit. When the Great Beast Kolomaq attacks, Snowbird doesn’t even ...

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Comic-Con 2014 Edition

As San Diego Comic-Con 2014 winds down, we all have a chance to look back (thanks to the stellar coverage by Stephen and Zach) at a pretty impressive year of panels, reveals and general mishegas, and some things that I’m ...

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Shoulda Been A Couple Edition

The pitfalls of fiction are many, but one of the most common that I run into is misunderstanding the bond of friendship with the bond of romantic entanglement. If you’ve ever been to TV Tropes or any given comments secti...

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Unmade Cartoon Adaptation Edition

One of my recent bouts of internet dumpster-diving (really the only definition for what I do in the weird side-streets and cul-de-sacs of online industry) have reminded me of another lost treasure of my youth: Starsky & Hut...

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Compulsory Pop Culture Edition

Though I’ve never been one of those awful people who define themselves by the things they refuse to see, more and more I find myself out of some of the most relevant pop culture loops. Though I’m aware of many of t...

Harley Quinn Invades Comic-Con International: San Diego #1 Review

What happens when the Joker’s best girl meets the madness that is Comic-Con? Five bucks says “Swift and blinding violence.” Your Major Spoilers review of Harley Quinn Invades Comic-Con International – ...

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Villainous Motif Edition

Sometimes, your humble MS-QOTD likes to delve into the finer points of nerd history and the metaphysical manifestations of our shared obsessions in the real world. Sometimes we just like to pretend to be super-villains, becaus...

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: James Garner Memorial Edition

It’s always a shame when someone talented passes away, even if they lived a long and full life, and though I cannot acknowledge every pop culture death, the loss of James Garner this weekend has affected your humble MS-QO...

Retro Review: Action Comics #593 (October 1987)

BECAUSE STEPHEN DEMANDED IT! Sometimes an issue gains notoriety for obvious reasons, others for reasons that are obscure or inexplicable. Then, there’s stuff like Superman’s porno debut with a very married Big Bar...

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Love Gone Bad Edition

The experience of any art is a very subjective one. To this day, I love Jim Rhodes because the first issue of Iron Man that I *EVER* bought featured his taking up the armor for the first time, while I attribute my inability to...

Original Sin #6 (of 8) Review

Uatu is dead, and so is Nick Fury, and the mastermind behind it all has been revealed as … Nick Fury? Clearly there’s something we don’t know going on here. Your Major Spoilers review of Original Sin #6 awaits!

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: “Party On, Wayne!” Edition

There are many who loudly lament the perception that movie studios only want established properties, remakes, sequels and reboots, but as Major Spoilers own Zach Woolf once said to Rob Liefeld (I’ll just pick up that name...

Cap’n Dinosaur #1 Review

Psychedelic two-fisted adventures in a Silver Age vein, and things are about to get serious! Your Major Spoilers review of Cap’n Dinosaur #1 awaits!

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Nothin’ But A Number Edition

There’s one major upside to getting older: It beats the alternative. Ever since my return from Utah, I’ve been plagued by repeated reminders that I’m not 17 anymore, each of which spirals into the next like a...

Silver Surfer #4 Review

Last time around, Norrin Radd and Dawn Greenwood figured out the real reason that the Incredulous Zed captured the Silver Surfer, but neither of them are sure why it is that she has been deemed important the Surfer’s futu...

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Things Past Edition

It has been said that no idea is too ridiculous to be popular, and I wholeheartedly agree. One of the most popular wrestlers of the last quarter-century has the gimmick of being an undead zombie biker cowboy, while this summer...

Infinite Crisis – Fight For The Multiverse #1 Review

Like Injustice: Gods Among Us before it, Fight For The Multiverse is a comic book based on a video game based on a comic book. For DC comics die-hards, there’s a lot of familiar territory to be covered, but how good is t...

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Whosoever Holds Thor’s Hammer Edition

During this week’s Major Spoilers Podcast, the four of us had many thoughts (some of them even coherent) about Marvel’s announcement of their new female Thor. For my part, I can’t help but remember the recent...

Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Personality Implants Edition

It’s a sad truth of the Silver Age of Comics that most of the heroes were interchangeable ciphers. As the Bronze Age dawned, comic book heroes gained rudimentary defining characteristics: Green Arrow became a loudmouth, ...

Retro Review: Cerebus The Aardvark #300 (March 2004)

After 8 years (!!) at Major Spoilers, I like to think I have a general idea of what works and doesn’t work in the worlds of comic books. Every once in a while, though, a creator or title presents a quandary that’s ...