The Hunt Is On Infinitely This Week On The Wednesday Run–September 11, 2013
It’s no secret that I’ve been a fan of Marvel Comics’ current event series, Infinity. A big fan. Jonathan Hickman’s giant-sized sci-fi opera, cock full of characters, good and bad, new and old? Yeah, I...
View ArticleCatching Up with Infinity
Yeah, I know. I’m a bad reviewer. I had been reviewing the Marvel Comics crossover event called Infinity by Jonathan Hickman on a week by week basis here at Biff Bam Pop!, but since Marvel didn’t halt...
View ArticleInfinity Three Ways
As we continue the coverage of Jonathan Hickman’s Marvel Comics event, Infinity, here at Biff Bam Pop!, this week finds the release of an Avengers triple threat. Join me after the jump for my thoughts...
View ArticleInfinity: The Final Chapters
For the last five months or so, Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers-focused mega-event Infinity has been the talk of the Marvel Comics Universe. This week it comes to an end as the Avengers fight Thanos and...
View ArticleSpend Christmas Eve With Avengers #24 On The Tuesday Run–December 24, 2013
Who out there is so hard-core into comics, that, amidst all the hustle-bustle of last minute Christmas shopping and getting ready for family dinners, they’re still hitting their local comic book shop...
View ArticleCloak and Dagger Animated
On this week’s episode of “Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors,” our hero meets fan favorite heroes of the 1980s, Cloak and Dagger. Throw in the Mindless Ones, Doctor Strange, and the dread Dormammu,...
View ArticleStuff The Stocking With Avengers NOW! #1 On The Wednesday Run
With the rising popularity of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series (wha-hoo!) and the anticipation mounting for the next Avengers film, Avengers: Age of Ultron, released next year, it’s a great...
View ArticleSecret Wars – The End of the Marvel Universe
There’s a Crisis on the horizon of near-Infinite proportions in the comics world, but not the way you might be thinking. Today Marvel Comics, represented by editors Tom Brevoort and Axel Alonzo,...
View ArticleMarvel Says NOW! To New Avengers #1 On The Wednesday Run – January 2, 2013
I don’t know if it’s a champagne hangover I’m currently sporting or if it’s one brought on by comic books. Between Christmas gifts and Boxing Day sales, I’ve been reading a lot of sequential art in my...
View ArticleMighty Marvel March: The Return of the New Universe
In the decades since “Flash of Two Worlds” in Flash #123 in 1961, the story that introduced Earth-Two and the basic concept of the Multiverse in comics, the idea of parallel universes have gone from...
View ArticleMighty Marvel March: Hickman’s Avengers
This week saw two different yet similar Avengers releases from Marvel Comics, both written by Jonathan Hickman – Avengers #8 and New Avengers #4. Both show vastly different sides of Earth’s Mightiest...
View ArticleAll Rise For Thanos Rising #1 On The Wednesday Run–April 3, 2013
I’m calling it. It’s only April and 2013 is definitely Marvel’s year. As a furtive and ardent reader that has historically sat squarely on the DC Comics side of the comic book ledger, even I have begun...
View ArticleAn Infinite Wait Ends With Infinity #1 On The Wednesday Run–August 14, 2013
Outer space, we’re told, has no boundaries. It goes on and on with uncountable moons, stars, nebulae and things we have yet to perceive plaintively trying to fill it. Time is that way too, endless,...
View ArticleThe Other Side of Infinity
Jonathan Hickman’s Infinity from Marvel Comics seems to be getting rave reviews. I’m sorry, I just don’t get it. The story promises so much. Thanos vs. the Avengers, a battle for all of time and space...
View ArticleInfinity: Going Through the Motions
Jonathan Hickman’s Infinity event at Marvel Comics continues this week in two crossover tie-in stories. In Captain Marvel #15, the Avengers in deep space try to recover from the disastrous Battle of...
View ArticleHere Ends NEW AVENGERS #33 On The Wednesday Run
Sometimes, I get things wrong. Release dates and such. That’s what happened two weeks ago in this very column, when I anxiously suggested that Avengers #44, the last issue of the acclaimed series, was...
View ArticlePut your back into it: Avengers The Vibranium Collection reviewed
Sometimes bigger is better. And sometimes it’s really, really better. That’s the idea behind the massive, oversized collection Marvel has been releasing the last few years. Roughly the height of of...
View ArticleAVENGERS #0 Assembles Earth’s Mightiest This October!
New York, NY—September 14th, 2015 — This October, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are reforged, retooled and recharged for the All-New, All-Different Marvel Universe! But first, kickoff the all-new Avengers...
View ArticlePsst! SECRET WARS #9 Is Out! Pass It On The Wednesday Run
It’s been hyped. It’s been lauded. It’s been editorialized. It’s been late. And now? It’s finally here. The secret that wasn’t so much a secret is finally out in the open for all of us to see and read....
View ArticleEarth’s Mightiest Heroes Unite in AVENGERS STANDOFF: ASSAULT ON PLEASANT HILL...
The details are coming in on the big Marvel Comics crossover event featuring the Avengers this spring – AVENGERS STANDOFF: ASSAULT ON PLEASANT HILL ALPHA – and it’s a lot bigger and more exciting than...
View ArticleAvengers: Ultron Revolution S03 E07: Into the Dark Dimension
It’s Halloween (yes, in April) on “Avengers: Ultron Revolution,” and Doctor Strange drops by to ask Earth’s mightiest heroes for help against his archenemy the dread Dormammu. Get ready for sorcery...
View ArticleHeroes and Villains – Reviewing The Week’s Marvels 2-15-2017
This week in Heroes and Villains our selection of new Marvel Comics includes a grounded space hero, a legacy hero with a familiar name, new origins for an old hero, and one of my absolute favorite...
View ArticleBrian Michael Bendis’ The New Avengers Remains A Riveting Read
While new Marvel comics arrived last week (including King In Black #2, which is a solid entry in the ongoing crossover) and a few more will arrive tomorrow, one of the things I love most about the...
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