Reltib

Name: Aaron Bitler

I like comics and so do you.  I'm a critical asshole, but at least I'm apologetic about it.




iFanboy Mini - Episode #11 - Last Week's Covers

On Mar 31, 2008 1:16 AM

Ron was visiting the east coast for the spring Judeo-Christian holidays? I can understand why you would want to overlook the controversy about NA 39, but this was a mini ABOUT covers and the cover that's on the ifanboy pull list isn't the one shown in the mini.  Since covers are such a big deal with respect to catching eyes for sales, anyone think people were confused when this issue fin...

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Comics don't take a vacation! New Comics for 03/12/08

On Mar 10, 2008 5:19 PM

@ohcaroline & adrian Re: Avengers Initiative So I'm biased.  AI is my favorite Avengers book at the moment and I didn't think that was going to happen about a book so steeped in Civil War fall-out.  Dan Slott is good at bringing in continuity (new and old) without making it a burden.  He also grabs from the entire Marvel U.  This feels like a book that you could read t...

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iFanboy - Episode #60: "Super Heroics"

On Mar 8, 2008 12:52 PM

Making a character an orphan automatically makes their backstory more interesting to some extent.  There are quite a few orphans or even characters with only one parent in comics.  Quickly off the top of my head I can come up with Rogue, Cyclops and Havok (originally), Darkhawk (father killed), Jolt (Thunderbolts), Daredevil, Tony Stark as a young man looses his parents in a car acci...

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