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By Brad Curran Hey look, another transition! This isn't that random at all! I demand a refund Which brings me to this week's Secret Warriors: The List one shot. I'd love to bitch about how it's Secret Warriors 9 1/2, or Secret Warriors: You Just Paid An Extra Dollar For A Regular Issue And A Reprint, Sucker!....

By Brad Curran Not even Sean and Brandon for that great strip about why I can't be bothered to care about Daredevil. I made a shrine for him. I don't know what he looks like, so I just burned some issues of Secret Invasion in front of my Nathan Fillion shrine, but hey, it's the thought that counts, right?

By MarkAndrew Team-Ups: Spider-man with:  Wolverine, the Hulk, Iron Man, Punisher, Daredevil, Punisher & Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Man-Thing, X-men, Doctor Strange, Black Widow, Shang-Chi, and cameos by Blade, Mary Jane Watson, Elektra, Captain America, the Human Torch, the Ultimates a...

By Chad Nevett Random Thought! I should also do an essay on realism in superhero comics since I have some specific thoughts there. For example, how is Norman Osborn so successful as director of HAMMER? The guy has never run an organisation that size and is fighting about twelve different wars on twelve di...

By Brian Cronin Artist: Jack Kirby I would have gone with a cover of Ultimate Nick Fury, but he really did not have a notable cover appearance for way too long for it to be actually iconic. So instead, we have the debut of Fury as the co-lead in Strange Tales, now as an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.! 1. Artist: Jim Steranko

By Brian Cronin Well, there was a Nick Fury cover by Steranko that's been homaged like a million times... Cheers, B Does that mean Hulk 181 wouldn't be eligible?" I'm willing to bet that the iconic panels was a part of the reason and that Iron Man is going ...

By Chad Nevett Ultimate Nightmare deals with an area of Russia called Tunguska, which had something crash in it from space 100 years ago. Now, nightmarish transmissions regarding the deaths of various alien civilisations are interrupting broadcasts around the world, speaking of death and no hope, l...

By Brian Cronin Tell anyone who was reading comics in the '70s "The Black Widow Panel" ... Generation gap.... I knew the Black Widow panel right off too :-) while ... At August 25, 2009, Sam wrote: And no ... Oz: Dean, Oz: Joe: 70 Panels and not ONE Iron Man panel? I call BS.

By Chad Nevett Captain America as the traitor didn’t really work either — unless it wasn’t the real Captain America as they suspect when he’s revealed as the traitor initially. I liked that touch, because it was a tease to everyone who dislike this Cap because he’s an asshole that maybe this isn’t really C...

By Chad Nevett After last week’s rerun reread review where I tore into Mark Millar’s Ultimate X-Men, I said that I would have a sequel of sorts this week — and it’s a book I actually enjoy! My just-now-decided Ultimate Marvel Month of reread reviews that ties into the end of Ultimatum and launches of Ultim...

By Brian Cronin Steranko was doing the Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD co-feature in Strange Tales during the late 1960s when, in one particular panel featuring Countess Valentina (Val) Allegro De Fontaine (the sexy SHIELD agent who became Nick Fury’s paramour), Marvel actually blacked out her buttocks!

By Brad Curran Wednesday Comics #1-4- My shop got me a special order for number one, so all is forgiven for their abandoning me for a week for the likes of Iron Man panels and Olivia Munn. Even the guy who reminds me of Toby Flenderson is okay in my book now.

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By Brad Curran Why I Want To See It- U.S. 1! The Highway Man! Ghost Rider! Spider-Man in the Spider-Mobile! Wolverine on a motorcycle! Nick Fury in a flying car! The Runaways in the Leap Frog! Drunk Hercules in a stolen Quinjet (or chariot) with Amadeus Cho as his co-pilot! Ben Grimm in the Fantasticar! John...

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By Brian Cronin Why can’t Secret Warriors just be about him entirely? Is anyone seriously reading this book to read about the sons and daughters of obscure Marvel characters? Jonathan Hickman is doing such a great job with Nick Fury and Hydra and now the Howling Commandos that it makes me say: can I please...

By Greg Hatcher Speaking of action, the opening title sequence to Wolverine was definitely one of the highlights of the movie. It moved smoothly through scenes of World War I, II, and Vietnam with Wolverine and Sabretooth in the midst of it all in roughly five minutes, and was really cool to watch.

By Bill Reed Nick Fury: a grizzled, aging, badass intelligence agent who’s pretty much an asshole to everybody he encounters. Also, he has an eyepatch. We all know Bruce Campbell is a leader of men, so I think he could step into the blue uniform of Nick Fury, the only man who can command the goddamn Punishe...

By Brian Cronin 1. Captain America (Steve Rogers) vs. 16. Nick Fury Online surveys) 5. Green Arrow (Oliver Queen) vs. 12. Zatanna polls) 4. Hawkeye (Clint Barton) vs. 13. Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) Online surveys) At March 19, 2009, Captain Comet wrote:

By Brian Cronin A couple of years before the three-part storyline in Captain America #111-113, Stan Lee had Captain America reveal his identity to the world. Captain America #112 was a retrospective on Cap’s career by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. That led to Captain America #113 by Steranko.

By Brad Curran That's hilarious, because I was just debating the other day putting Fantastic Four 1234 #2 into the "Eight Awesome August ... Sigh* Not all comics rely ... Not all comics rely on the sort of continuity you’re talking about. Not even monthly superhero stories HAVE to have ...