Hildie and the Kid Gang
In Cologne, three orphaned children decide they’re sick of living in a burnt-out city. They’re going to America. Two months later, a youth gang plagues Central City, with all the kids joining. It’s so bad, there’s only one kid left in school. Commissioner Dolan sends an officer to escort the kid […]
Tags: The Spirit
I didn’t read many comics in the 1990s, at least not during the middle 1990s, when gems like Vemon: The Hunted came out. I missed the symbiote invasion entirely. So what possessed me to read this one? Access, a desire to see Rouleau’s artwork and a sleeping girlfriend.
Venom goes skateboarding in this comic book. Well, […]
Tags: Duncan Rouleau · Larry Hama · Marvel Comics · Venom
Die Hard With a Vengeance meets “Heroes” meets The Thing continues. I barely remember the first issue–for example, page three or four had to remind me it took place in Chicago (my hometown)–and I still don’t neccesarily believe the lead character in this issue is the same character as in the last issue… maybe it […]
Tags: Boom! Studios · Dominion · Michael Alan Nelson · Tim Hamilton
Lois Lane–Convict
by an unknown writer and Kurt Schaffenberger
…Lois Lane casts aside her integrity for easy money…
Lois stops on her way to work and admires an expensive dress in a shop window. A gangster approaches her, offering to give her the money to buy the dress if she sits on a story, only for a few […]
Tags: Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane
The Villains of ‘42
On the snow covered streets, two men fight over a cigarette butt. They’re interrupted by a third, who then steals the butt for himself. These three men–the Squid, Mr. Fly and Hush–soon discover their common nemesis is the Spirit and plot against him. They visit Commissioner Dolan and inquire about a outstanding […]
Tags: The Spirit
