Retro Reviews: Avengers: Infinity War
Normally, these Retro Reviews we look at a single thing, most often a single issue of a comic, and then break it down. We look at the actual story, toss in a bit of historical context, and finally a whole lot of my personal experience with that comic (or movie, etc.)....
Nintendo Targeting Piracy Websites
Last month, Nintendo filed suit against LoveROMS.com and LoveRETRO.com. Both websites are owned by Jacob Mathias and provide ROM's for many of Nintendo's most iconic games. The suit was filed on 19th of July in an Arizona Federal Court. The suit stated that both of...
Jeff’s Picks of the Week for August 15, 2018
Greetings from the floor, Gatherers and Grand Geeks. Somehow in my melted state I managed to reconstitute my arms to type this out to you. Point is the heat is just intense and atrocious here and despite my willingness to exaggerate, the warmth does tend to slow from...
Jeff’s Picks of the Week for August 8, 2018
Happy August blaze to all you Gatherers and Grand Geeks out there! As I write this I am doing my best not to melt away entirely from this insane heatwave that we have been experiencing as of late. Basking in the air conditioner or dips in the pool only go so far...
Retro Reviews: Fantastic Four no. 20
Holy freaking crap! We are 20 issues into the Fantastic Four! We are just under 20% through Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s historic run. Jack would leave after issue 102 (though his actual final issue was 108 as there was unused material utilized that issue). Since I have...
Retro Reviews: Fantastic Four no. 19
These things (comic books) always begin with the cover. It’s what sells you on a book. In an age of Graphic Novels and Trade (i.e. a collection of individual issues) the art of the cover is largely lost. Nobody ever did covers better than Jack Kirby; number 2 on the...
Jeff’s Picks of the Week for August 1, 2018
Hello from the pits of Hades, Grand Geeks! Er, I mean sunny and balmy Southern California of course. Yeah, a nice 'sunny and balmy' environment where the heat is being matched by atrocious levels of humidity. It could be worse after all, it could be Mordor! Alas,...
Retro Reviews: Fantastic Four no. 18
Welcome back! I hope Comic-Con treated you well. With that, we return from San Diego in the early 1970s and back to New York in the early 1960s! For this week’s Retro Review we will break down and explore Fantastic Four no. 18. Oh, snap! Super Skrull! Okay, we’ll get...
Jeff’s Picks of the Week for July 25, 2018
Hello to all you fine Grand Geeks and Gatherers out there. I hope your week was wonderful regardless of whether you were able to attend SDCC or not. For me it was quite the event, one not so easily forgotten nor missed. Every year it seems to become an event far...
Retro Reviews: Comic-Con
Take yourself back to the 1960s, what we now refer to as the Silver Age of comic books. The era that defined comics as we know them today thanks largely to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Sure there are others, but for my purposes and the purposes of my retro reviews, those...