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Out of the Vault – Comics Greatest World: Steel Harbor
Continuing a look back at Dark Horse’s short-lived 1993 attempt to create a shared superhero universe. In month 3, focus shifted from Golden City to Steel Harbor. But first, the prologues: The first page of every issue formed a separate, … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Comics Greatest World: Golden City
Last week, we started discussing “Comics Greatest World,” Dark Horse’s 1993 four-month, 16-issue miniseries intended to launch their new superhero continuity. Month one had featured Arcadia, a grim’n’gritty corner of the universe with horror-themed heroes. Month 2 went in the … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Comics Greatest World: Arcadia
In 1993, Dark Horse Comics gave birth to what was perhaps the most unnecessary shared superhero universe ever, grandiosely titled “Comics’ Greatest World.” It was introduced in an elaborate four-month rollout that saw a different title published each week, centered … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Chassis
This is one of those books picked up as an experiment. In the mid-90’s, there was a boom in cheesecake books featuring hot babes as main characters, because hot babes on the cover sell books and the best excuse for … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Secret Origins 10
Okay, as you might have noticed, yesterday was April 1, so yes, The Chosen One was an April Fool’s Day joke, and no, Hero Go Home is not cancelled. I’m going to try to get a bonus chapter up this … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Reign of the Supermen
So in the aftermath of the huge Death of Superman event, DC Comics then unveiled the Reign of the Supermen. If you read last week’s Vault, and the entry on the Shaquille O’Neal movie, Steel, then you know that DC … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Action Comics 687
On Monday, I promised to bring you a “forgotten” Superman film to wrap up our months-long look at all of the big guy’s big screen appearances, and that is definitely going to happen. So I figured to give you a … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
So we continue to work our way backwards from Spider-Man beating up Firelord, former herald of Galactus, to Spider-Man teaching the cosmic, godlike Beyonder how to go poop, to the miniseries which started this whole chain of events, the year-long … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Secret Wars II
Through the 70’s and into the 80’s, I was a Marvel fan. I came to Marvel late in my childhood, having been more a DC kid when I was younger. Maybe that explains why I ended up abandoning Marvel long … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Power Creep Callback
So over the past couple of weeks, I’ve discussed how Superman IV: The Quest for Peace was partly just an extended series of callbacks to better movies in the series. This is one of the inherent dangers of sequels, and … Continue reading
