Jim Starlin Archive

Reader Request month 2014 edition is in its penultimate week so we’ll be rifling through some of these as time allows. For our next installment, I I took a request from Chasing Amazing/Amazing Spider-Talk superfan, Thomas Aiello who, via my site’s Facebook page, recommended Amazing Spider-Man #187 by Marv Wolfman,

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With Marvel launching its brand new “Infinity” mini-series, I thought the timing was right to review 1993’s Infinity Crusade mini-series for my latest Gimmick or Good? feature on Comics Should Be Good’s web site. Crusade was the third “Infinity” event penned by Jim Starlin in as many years and

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Like every other comic book fan with a pulse, I truly enjoyed last summer’s Avengers movie and nearly leapt out of my seat at the very end when (*spoiler*) THANOS showed up in the teaser. It’s Thanos, the “Mad God of Titan,” the man who courts Death, the …

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Today, as part of Sequart Research & Literacy Organization’s SciFi Week, I tackle some “far out” comics from the 1970s with my analysis of the tonal shift of Adam Warlock after Jim Starlin took over writing about the character. While not a traditional SciFi story, I argue that by

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For everyone out there who lived Jim Starlin’s “Infinity Gauntlet” mini-series from the early 1990s, I decided to review the gatefold covered sequel, Infinity War over at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog. Does the second installment live up to its predecessors? For more of my guest blogging posts,

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