I love comic books for many, many reasons. While I enjoy stand-alone stories like Watchmen and Y: The Last Man, I particularly love the mainstream superheroes that have become American icons, such as my personal favorite, the Incredible Hulk. Be it history, nerdy rants about individual stories, or a delve into the films and cartoons comic books inspired, I have lots to say on this subject.

Subpages

• Crowning Moments of Awesome: My favorite moments for select comic book characters.
• My Favorite Panels: Single moments in a comic book that I revisit time and again.
• Superhero Evolutions: From costume changes to personality makeovers, exploring how long-running characters have changed over the years.

More Comics Ramblings

• The Best Plot Twist that Never Happened: A completely new reading of All-Star Superman that was unintended by the creators.
• Captain America Punching Hitler was Once Controversial: America doesn’t always cheer for the right people.
• The Definitive Superman vs Luthor Encounter: Lex Luthor can’t see what is literally staring him in the face.
• The Golden Age Superman was a Badass Vigilante: The original Superman simply had no time for bullshit.
  • Part One
  • Part Two
• Green Lantern in “The Leap Year Menace!”: This is the best Hal Jordan story ever written, and I won’t hear otherwise.
• Hal Jordan and Barry Allen: Destroyers of the Universe: Our heroes, who occasionally just delete universes.
• The K-Metal from Krypton: The most groundbreaking Superman story that never got told.
• The MCU’s Incredible Character Arc for the Hulk (That We Never Got to See): It sure would be a shame if all sorts of interesting stuff happened to the Hulk off-screen but never got included in any movie.
• My Favorite Comics, Sans Superheroes: Not every comic requires flights and tights.
• My Favorite Superhero Casting Jobs (so far): The actors who, in my mind, are synonymous with their characters.
• The Original Death of Superman: When Lex Luthor cured cancer out of spite.
• Successes from DC’s New 52: The New 52 endeavor failed, but not without some good stories along the way.
• Superman’s Secret Identity: The glasses disguise does actually make sense.
• ThunderCats, No!: A look at ThunderCats: The Return, and how edginess for the sake of edginess can ruin a story.
  • Part One
  • Part Two
• The Weirdness of Golden Age Batman: Early Batman stories are fascinating in their contradictions.
• When Superman Defeated the KKK: How a fictional character dealt a stunning blow to an influential hate group.

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