My Marvelous Year With the beginning of the year…I know it’s 3 weeks in already but I’m really just getting into the swing of things…Comic Book Herald has started up their My Marvelous Year Reading group and I’m all …

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Daily Ramble 4 of 2019: Today I embark on new beginnings, one in books, one in gaming, and in comics I see a return separated by over 50 years. Actually, the gaming start is a restart since I already started …

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This is the issue where it all began…the Avengers unite in their first action packed issue and it’s all caused by Loki. Ant-Man, the Wasp, Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor form the nucleus of the team and while they don’t …

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This issue covers not only a well written story about the Sub-Mariner and his vendetta against the human race, but also provides a really cool rundown of the various bad guys the first family of Marvel had to take on …

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I’ve been running into some networking issues lately and haven’t been able to get much gaming in lately. Hopefully this situation will resolve itself this weekend as I focus on it but in the meantime, I’ve gone through a few …

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The Skrull show back up in this issue and they’re determined to take over the Earth but this time they know they need to take out the Fantastic Four first. Their play is to send a Super Skrull to Earth …

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In the last issue, the team took on Doctor Doom in the micro world that he took over after they thought they had shrunk him down to nothingness in issue #10. They defeated him with the help of Ant-Man but …

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In Fantastic Four #16, Doctor Doom is back and he’s got the team right where he wants them! When last we saw Doom, he had been zapped by his own reducing ray and was shrunk down to nothingness. Apparently he …

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First Look for Tales to Astonish #44 Meet the Wasp! could have easily been the title of this issue but instead the focus is on the bad guy. I tend to think the most important part of this issue is …

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Review for Strange Tales #109 This is a decent tale featuring the Human Torch but the villain is a bit weak. He’s basically just a crotchety old man who wants to be left alone until Johnny interferes and pushes him …

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