The Crims are back! Your Major Spoilers review of Sex Criminals #14 awaits!
Author: Matthew Peterson
Matthew Peterson
Once upon a time, there was a young nerd from the Midwest, who loved Matter-Eater Lad and the McKenzie Brothers... If pop culture were a maze, Matthew would be the Minotaur at its center. Were it a mall, he'd be the Food Court. Were it a parking lot, he’d be the distant Cart Corral where the weird kids gather to smoke, but that’s not important right now... Matthew enjoys body surfing (so long as the bodies are fresh), writing in the third person, and dark-eyed women. Amongst his weaponry are such diverse elements as: Fear! Surprise! Ruthless efficiency! An almost fanatical devotion to pop culture! And a nice red uniform.
The Silver Surfer’s life just got even more complicated. And given that he’s a former herald of Galactus who just tried to rebuild the universe from scratch while traveling throughout the galaxy on a surfboard with a young woman from New England who found out he was a herald of Galactus the hard way and may not have completely forgiven him for it yet? That’s saying something… Your Major Spoilers review of Silver Surfer #2 awaits!
The 2005 relaunch of Doctor Who on television made the show as big a deal in the colonies as it is back home in the UK. But, in truth, The Doctor made his first appearance on American shores decades earlier… …sorta. Your Major Spoilers (Retro) Review of Dr. Who And The Daleks (aka Dell Movie Classics) 12-190-612 awaits!
Pamela Isley has returned to academic life, thanks to her former mentor, Luisa Cruz. But now, Doctor Cruz has been murdered in their lab, and it’s time for Poison Ivy to get involved… Your Major Spoilers review of Poison Ivy: Cycle Of Life And Death #2 awaits!
You’re the living embodiment of the God of Thunder, but you’re separated from your magic hammer, and falling to you inevitable doom. What do you do, GO! Your Major Spoilers review of Mighty Thor #4 awaits!
The first solid details on DC’s upcoming Rebirth event/corporate regrouping have emerged into the wild, leaving superhero comic fans Buzzing about whether it’s a dying gasp, the Next Big Thing or just Geoff Johns reprising Julie Andrews big number from ‘The Sound Of Music.’
Time-travel always makes for an interesting story, especially for those of us around the Major Spoilers campfire. But sometimes, Your Major Spoilers review of 11.22.53 Episode #1 awaits!
Welcome to Inside Astro City, a column focusing on the Vertigo Comics series Astro City from Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, and Alex Ross! Each month, we’ll take a look at the current issue of the series, and ask series writer Kurt Busiek questions about the book. This month, we get up close and personal with The Living Nightmare, with Inside Astro City #31!
Though the crossover dates back to the earliest days of comics (even the creation of the Justice Society was just an intercompany crossover), the perception of them as a modern and destructive innovation persist. While it is true that the shrinking comic book publishing industry has led to a lot of such stories, the problem with a crossover is not its intent, but its execution. The recent Secret Wars story at Marvel is a fine example of both the good and the bad: Taking over the entire line for several months, but leading to interesting stories being told both during…
Shocking betrayals, and a fan-favorite hero is expelled from the Avengers ranks! What in the world is going on here? Your Major Spoilers review of All-New All-Different Avengers #5 awaits!
In the wake of the Avengers and Fantastic Four, new heroes arise to protect the Marvel Universe, but are they all that they seem? No, of course not. Your Major Spoilers (Retro) Review of Thunderbolts #1 awaits!
Quoth the sage, Huey Lewis: “The power of love is a curious thing.” Indeed, our movies, books and comics are full of examples where love makes all the difference, from the inexplicably metaphysical climax of ‘Rent’ to Marty McFly’s continued survival while meddling with cosmic forces beyond his ken. Indeed, even when it doesn’t make sense (or, in the case of Ally Sheedy’s makeover scene in ‘The Breakfast Club’, if it’s directly contrary to the lesson the movie claims to be imparting) love makes the world go around. Die Hard gets reunited with his wife, The Green Ranger is redeemed…
Thanks to my cousin Elwood, who discovered comic books a couple of years before me, one of the first superheroes I was exposed to was Carol Danvers. (For the minutiae-obsessed, it was the Marvel Team-Up issue where she first wore her black lightning-bolt uniform.) Some decades later, both Carol and I have graduated to more adult activities, in that she’s now Captain Marvel and I’m… …still a nerd talkin’ comic books. A concerted push to bring Carol Danvers to the forefront of the Marvel Universe began right around the turn of the century, and frankly, it hasn’t always been successful. …
I have always had a soft spot in my heart for Starfire, the golden-skinned alien warrior of the Teen Titans. Maybe it’s her joyful nature, or her love of adventure, or maybe it’s partly her beauty, contrasting the fierce warrior within. Either way, she is always near the top of any list of Alien Heroes, right up there with Lar Gand of Daxam, Mar-Vell of Hala and even the gold standard, planet Bismoll’s favorite son, Tenzil Kem. Unusually for me, I even love her animated adaptation, whose stilted English is endearing as heck, leading us to today’s extraterrestrial query… The MS-QOTD…