Stan Lee deserves Lifetime Achievement Award “100 percent”!
Comic book guru Stan Lee has received the Lifetime Achievement Award given at the 15th annual Savannah Film Festival for his co-creation of Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers and...
View ArticleEssential Thor Volume 2 by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee (graphic novel review).
‘Essential Thor Volume 2’ opens with a magnificent battle scene in which Odin, Thor and a bunch of other Asgardians fight the demon men of Jutenheim. As they are defeated in two panels, they obviously...
View ArticleEssential Thor Volume 3 by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee (comic-book review).
Here be another ‘Essential Thor Volume’ for ye to read, mortals. This is the point at which the Thunder God became more godly, more cosmic and yea, more awesome. Stan Lee contributed to the elevated...
View ArticleEssential Thor Volume 4 by Jack Kirby, Neal Adams, John Buscema and Stan Lee...
Kirby soldiers on! For 12 more issues anyway and does a pretty good job of them, too. Just before he left Marvel, that company or Stan Lee had decided to revert from multi-issue stories to yarns that...
View ArticleStan Lee… with great power comes great responsibility.
Stan Lee is one of the greatest pensioners the planet – or at least, the geek planet – has ever known. He really doesn’t need to prove it to us, but he keeps on insisting on trying. Take for example...
View ArticleIron Man 3 (a film review by Frank Ochieng).
Well, everybody’s favorite Marvel Comics metal-head is back in the fold while combining action, aerodynamics and angst in the explosive yet slightly uneven ‘Iron Man 3′. Most ardent fans of the...
View ArticleEssential Fantastic Four Vol. 6 by Stan Lee and Roy Thomas (graphic novel...
‘From beyond the stars shall come the Overmind and he shall crush the universe.’ So goes an ancient prophecy steeped in Stan Lee hyperbole. Super-heroes used to save America, then the world and later...
View ArticleEssential Fantastic Four Volume 7 by John Buscema, Joe Sinnott, Rich Buckler,...
‘Essential Fantastic Four Volume 7’ features stories from Fantastic Four # 138 through to Fantastic Four # 159 with a couple of ‘Giant-Size’ issues thrown in for good measure. Over 500 pages, as usual...
View ArticleCaptain America: The Winter Soldier (film review by Frank Ochieng).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SlILk2WMTI One certainly cannot go wrong when presenting Marvel Comics super-heroes on the big screen as these action-packed gems mean big business at the box office....
View ArticleThe Essential Doctor Strange vol # 1 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (graphic...
One of this year’s big Hollywood films had humble beginnings. Doctor Strange, portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch in the soon to be released movie, first appeared in Strange Tales # 110, July 1963....
View ArticleMarvel Essential: Sgt. Fury And His Howling Commandos Vol.1 by Stan Lee, Jack...
Like all ‘Marvel Essential’ and ‘DC Showcase’ volumes this is in black and white on cheap paper. Marvel has discontinued the ‘Essential’ line, sadly, but I think DC are still doing ‘Showcase’. The...
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