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Ms. Marvel #1

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There are those out there who levy heavy criticism against Marvel comics for changing or replacing classic characters in ways that appeal to “social justice warriors”. For example, the current run of Iron Man is not Tony Stark as Iron Man, but a young black woman named Riri Williams. There are other examples, and I could go on all day, but the point is that this is seen as pandering to an audience of folks who care more about social and political issues than they do about telling good stories. These changes are seen as a blatant attempt by Marvel to save face under increasing politically correct pressures at the expense of “real fans” who love their classic characters. I don’t wholly disagree. Well, with the blatant tokenism, not the “real fans” part. If a real fan is someone who reads comics then we are all of us real fans. Anyways, I’m sure that in some respects, there are people high up the Marvel food chain that are pushing to have more diverse characters in order to have g
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Adventures of the Outsiders #35

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This time around I found a comic relevant to the recent attention white nationalists have been getting in the United States. It’s oddly poignant as well as just being weird and goofy, but also at times extremely dark. It is DC’s Adventures of the Outsiders #35 from July 1986. Negative Hitler is not pleased. This comic used to be called Batman and the Outsiders, but the team and Batman had a falling out, and Batsy’s name was taken off the title. I guess he didn’t approve of their methods because they straight-up murder people, including (in this book) one beheading. The team consists of Metamorpho, Black Lightning, Halo, Katana, and three more heroes I’ve never heard of before now, Windfall, Geo-Force, and Looker. Looker is probably one of the worst superhero names I’ve ever heard. What is This About? The madness begins with the cover. The titular heroes do battle with their rival super villain team, the Masters of Disaster, who I have also never heard of. The Masters of
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X-Force #8

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For the first issue of this weird journey I’m about to undertake, I picked a comic by none other than Rob Liefeld. Rob is the lowest of low-hanging fruit when one is talking 90s comics, so why not start there? PEW PEW PEW BWAAAAA!!! I picked this one for its cover. It has one of those iconic 90s Liefeld group shots where everyone is running and shooting at something we can’t see. They all have Liefeld staples like belt pouches, weird guns that don’t look like guns, and either a set-jawed grimace or a wide open shouty mouth. I’m coming to this sight unseen, so I’m excited for what I’m going to find inside. Perhaps I shouldn’t be. Back--er--Forward in time?? You can never tell with Cable. He’s a time traveler and the son of Cyclops and and Jean Grey who was sent to the future but then came back in time? I’m not sure. Anyways, the first page gets us up to speed. Cable and his New Mutants friends Cannonball and Boom Boom ran afoul of my favorite pterodactyl man, Sauron. He’s
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This is the First Post

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As much as for deciding on a visual theme as anything, this is the first post of a new Blog. I am putting this thing together as an idea to write about comics. Specifically, to write about bad comics. I already write reviews for theFandomentals.com of good comics, comics that I like. I kind of want to write about terrible ones as well, and this is a place to figure that shit out. Here is a picture. How is Wolverine holding on to Cable? Is he floating? Wow, that is truly awful. I have a lot of bad comics from the 90s, and I have access through Marvel Unlimited to myriad more of them. So why not write about them? Perhaps we can better appreciate how good comics are today by seeing how bad they used to be. Anyways, that's all for now.
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