Marvel Month here at SPF comes to an end with my final review of a Marvel book for a couple weeks. I have been a long time fan of Robbie Baldwin as Speedball, but Marvel terribly mishandled the character for much of the 2000s. My hatred of Civil War let me to skip his solo run in Penance: Relentless, and I now regret it. The title turned out to be a surprisingly good read.
I give my review of a surprisingly great, albeit short, biography of Brock Lesnar, Death Clutch. Go read the full review at the Examiner to learn why I think this is a book everyone should read. While you are there, watch the first half of his match with Kurt Angle that ended his wrestling career, then check out the second half below!
Though the screenshots are boring, I finally get around to reviewing Total Extreme Wrestling, the best wrestling game of all time.
After over a year offline, one of the earliest stories from Metahuman Press returns with the first of two Timeline Classic stories.
Read the first three chapters of the tale of UFO right now over at Metahuman Press!
If you don’t want to wait for the other three chapters (coming in November), you can always buy the Collected Metahuman Press for the rest of the story!
A quick scheduling note: the review of Misfits 2-5 will be coming your way later this week, but right now we make room for more Marvel Month reviews!
I have been a Robert Kirkman fan since the day I bought the very first Invincible trade. For years I wondered if anyone could make independent superheroes in the 21st century work and here was a guy doing just that. Not only was it a great comic, it also gave me hope that maybe I could get some comic work noticed without having to just try and get work for the big two.
Of course, Kirkman didn’t avoid the Big Two. Even while producing Invincible and Walking Dead, he also gave the world multiple works at Marvel: Ultimate X-Men, Marvel Team-Up, Irredeemable Ant-Man, Jubilee, etc. He also threw out a few random limited series, one of which was Fantastic Four: Foes.
If Foes was a try-out for the regular Fantastic Four book, I am a little sad that Kirkman never got the call. While the story is by no means perfect, Kirkman and artist Cliff Rathburn do an excellent job of actually remembering that this team is a family and should be treated as such. It is something that often gets completely ignored, even by the best FF writers.
Not to say that it has no action. The book is called Foes because it is filled with them.
At the scene of the crime.
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(Story: "Dracula: Half-Life", Editor)
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(Introduction, Editor)
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(Story: "Palladium")
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(Story: "Domino Reborn", Editor)
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(Story: "Island of Deceit")
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(Story: "The Invisible Pirates")
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