The Character Corner

New Character Corner episode: We cover The Button (and Thawne whooping Bruce's ass in less than a minute) and Volumes 4 through 6 of the Flash

Joshua Williamson’s Flash Volumes 4 – 6: The Evil That is Eobard Thawne We promised 2 episodes in March and we're squeezing it right in there at the 11th hour. But we're back for the next set of issues from the Joshua Williamson Flash run. We first stop over at Batman and pick up with The Button which takes us closer to understanding the forces behind all the lost time....

We wrap up Hickman's Avengers saga with the big Secret Wars event that launches a new Marvel multiverse.

Into the Hickmanverse Part 10: Secret Wars We wrap up our Avengers part of our Hickman series with the 9-issue Secret Wars event that sees Hickman rebuild the Marvel Universe first in Doom's vision then from Reed's. Secret Wars is one of those events where you don't have to read all the related non-Hickman written issues to understand the st...

New Character Corner episode: Time Runs out for the Marvel Universe

Intot the Hickmanverse Part 8: Time Runs Out With the mention of the word "Incursions" in Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness its timely for us to reach the "Time Runs Out" portion of our Into the Hickmanverse series. This is the lead up to Secret Wars and its basically Hickman destroying the Marvel Universe. All of it. Time Runs Out i...

New Character Corner episode: Moon Knight

Moon Knight – The Fist of Khonshu We're back with another Character Corner episode and this time we're talking about the character Moon Knight. Or should we say the characters Marc Spector/Steven Grant/Jake Lockley. Moon Knight is an interesting character to cover. First appearing in 1975 in Werewolf By Night, its pretty clear that....

Part 8 of our series: Everyone is reaching a breaking point

Into the Hickmanverse Part 8: Avengers & New Avengers – Broken Men We're getting closer to the end of out Hickman Marvel series and things are starting to fall apart for everyone. In the two series we watch as Steve not only remembers what the Illuminati did to him but also becomes hardened in his decision that they are wrong and must be stopped. On the New Avenger...

Part 2 of our Legion of Super-Heroes series. So many reboots. So many

Legion of Super-Heroes Part 2 – Reboots and More Reboots Reboots are a thing that happens all the time in comic books. But there are reboots and retcons and then there's what DC Comics did with the Legion of Super-Heroes. I take back what I said during part 1. The Legion of Super-Heroes might have the most complex and complicated history in DC. Yes that's...

Part 7 of our Into the Hickmanverse Series. Things are starting to pick up in Avengers with the Infinity crossover.

Into the Hickmanverse Part 7: Avengers Part 2 – Infinity We're back for Part 7 of our Into the Hickmanverse series as we got through the world in Marvel that Hickman has built. After looking at what we have remaining, there will be 11 total parts. We'll get the way through Secret Wars with Part 10 and for Part 11 we'll talk about the new age of X-Men that...

For the 100th Character Corner Episode we cover the early years of the Legion of Super-Heroes

The Legion of Super-Heroes Part 1 – The Great Darkness Saga So for the 100th episode of the Character Corner, Kriss & Dpalm are finally back on the DC side and we decided we didn't want to make it easy on ourselves and so we’re tackling the Legion of Super-Heroes. The the history of the Legion of Super-Heroes is one that rivals Wonder Woman, Donna Troy and...

New Pull List episode is up

Pull List: So Many Comics, So Little Time First Character Corner episode of 2022 and it's a Pull List. There are a lot of comics for Kriss and Dpalm to talk about. The biggest problem? There are so many great and good comics out right now. It's really hard to keep up. Of course this is a good problem to have (unless you're on a budget). At....

We start with Avengers and New Avengers pre-Infinity event

Into the Hickmanverse Part 6: Avengers & New Avengers Part 1 We're ending 2021 with the beginning of the end. We've started Hickman's epic Avengers/New Avengers run. This is one of our favorite runs. We've covered it several times from Comic Book Book Clubs on premium to when we cover individual characters like Black Panther, Iron Man, Captain America, etc. T...

Kriss and Dpalm talk about the comic history of Shang-Chi

Shang-Chi – Master of Kung Fu Kriss and Dpalm are finally back with a new Character Corner episode. This time we're talking about the Marvel Master of Kung Fu himself, Shang-Chi. We decided to wait until after we talked about the movie before diving into this character and for good reason. See, there's really no nice way to say....

Hickman takes a trip into the Ultimate Universe and makes Ultimate Reed Richards terrifying

Into the Hickmanverse Part 5: Hickman Saves the Ultimate Universe We're back with part 5 of our Into the Hickmanverse series. This time Hickman teams up with Bendis again to dive into the Ultimate universe. But before we do that, we first have to address how we got here. Yes that means retelling the story (if you can call it that) of Ultimatum and how the Ultimate...

We're back with the Return of Johnny Storm, All Hope Lies in Doom and Hickman setting up the Marvel universe for Time Runs Out

Into the Hickmanverse Part 4: Fantastic Four – All Hope Lies in Doom The latest part of our Into the Hickmanverse series by wrapping up his Fantastic Four run. This covers both Fantastic Four and FF (Future Foundation). We kick everything off with the new series, FF as well as some new uniforms for Marvel's first family. Also, Spider-Man comes in to fill in the spot....

New Character Corner: Hickman really start hitting his groove and showing us just how far he's willing to take things with the first part of his Fantastic Four series

Into the Hickmanverse Part 3: Fantastic Four – The Death of Johnny Storm We're finally back to our series covering Jonathan Hickman's Marvel runs. This time we're revisiting his great Fantastic Four run. We start first with the Dark Reign mini-series and then cover issues 570 to 588 in Fantastic Four. The great thing about reading a Hickman run is when you go back to re...

New Character Corner Episode: Natalia Romanova aka Natasha Romanoff aka The Black Widow

Black Widow – Natasha Romanoff We're back with another Character Corner, this time to talk about Natalia Romanova aka Natasha Romanoff aka The Black Widow. On the surface this seems like a pretty straight forward character. A former Russian spy who was trained to be a femme fatale in a secret Soviet program that was recruited and...

We wrap up the series with volumes 21 to 25

Comic Book Book Club: Invincible Vol 21 to 25 – A Fitting End All good things must come to an end and so it is with our read through the Invincible series. Now it's well known that even the best series have a hard time sticking the landing. How did Invincible do? Well...it stuck the landing. Kirkman really gives this series the ending it deserved and it felt l...

New Character Corner episode: Into the Hickmanverse Part 2: S.H.I.E.L.D. - This is not how the world ends

Into the Hickmanverse Part 2: S.H.I.E.L.D – This is Not How the World Ends Now the fun begins. Secret Warriors gave us a taste of what was in that crazy brain of Hickman. S.H.I.E.L.D. is where we really start to see things form. This is the series that will have readers going back to issue 25 of Secret Warriors to start piecing things together. It's also where the foundati...

We're starting our Marvel Hickman series on the Character Corner. Strap iin

Into the Hickmanverse Part 1 – Secret Warriors: Wheels within Wheels So it's time to dive into something really good. We're starting our "Into the Hickmanverse" series where we cover the major Marvel runs of Jonathan Hickman. Now if you've been a long time listener, then you'll know that we've not only talked about the works of Hickman a lot but we've also covered a....

Things escalate (more than usual) with volumes 16 to 20 of

Comic Book Book Club: Invincible Vol 16 to 20 – Things Escalate So we're getting close to the end of our Invincible Comic Book Book Club and it would be an understatement to say things have escalated. To be honest, things get so intense in these 5 volumes, I was so traumatized, I thought I had already released this episode. So apologies for the delay but we're f...

With Season 1 of Invincible wrapping up, now is the perfect time to check out the series

Invincible Volume 11 to 15: Whole Lot of Problems One of the biggest differences between the Invincible comic series and the Amazon Prime Video adaptation is the pace. The comic really doesn't give you a chance to catch your breath. And just to be clear, that works for the comic media. In these three volumes we get so much. From the "Invincible War...

We're back with part 2 of our Barry Allen and The Flash family series

Barry Allen and the Flash Family Part 2 We're finally back with part 2 of our Barry Allen and the Flash family Character Corner series. We handle this episode a little different than our typical episodes. While we still bring up issues to read, we really focus on the discussion of the evolution of the Flash and the Flash family. Particula...

We're back with volumes 6 to 10 of

Comic Book Book Club: Invincible Vol 6 to 10 – Worst. Father. Ever. We're back with the next 5 volumes of Invincible and cover volumes 6 through 10. Invincible is an interesting series because it's able to navigate accelerated storytelling with seeding things that don't pay off until volumes later. It's a good combination that both continually rewards the reader whi...

We're getting close to finishing all of the original seven members of the Justice League. It's finally time to talk about Barry Allen

Barry Allen and the Flash Family Part 1 This feels like a long time coming. It's actually quite amazing that it's taken us this long to cover Barry Allen. We're slowly making our way through the original seven members of the Justice League (Martian Manhunter is the only remaining member left and we'll cover him soon). There's a few reason...