Heroes Reborn Pt 5: Captain America
In 1996, Rob Liefeld and collaborators brought us a refreshed, political Captain America that sold great! And, introduced the best Bucky, Rikki Barnes!
DetailsIn 1996, Rob Liefeld and collaborators brought us a refreshed, political Captain America that sold great! And, introduced the best Bucky, Rikki Barnes!
DetailsJim Lee and Brandon Choi’s Heroes Reborn Fantastic Four is one of the most romantic, dashing, adventurous retellings of the classic Stan Lee/Jack Kirby run.
DetailsWalt Simonson took over Avengers from Jim Valentino, Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, and Chap Yaep, and they gave us an epic of time travel, alternate dimensions, homunculi, possession, and lies.
DetailsHeroes Reborn Iron Man, launched by Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, Scott Lobdell, is a ground-up 1990s reimagining that ran from 1996-97.
DetailsHeroes Reborn was an imprint helmed by Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld, reinventing Marvel superheroes like Captain America and the Fantastic Four for the 1990s. Did they need reinventing?
DetailsDecember 2019, The New Yorker revises its all-comics issue for a new era, as the Cartoon Takeover!
DetailsA Train Called Love, Garth Ennis, Mark Dos Santos, a scene of women with garbage boyfriends, the sexist response from “comics fans.”
DetailsSensation Comics with fantastic Wildcat and Little Boy Blue comics and a Wonder Woman by Joye Hummel, the first woman to write the character.
DetailsPaul Cornell turned trans people not passing into a joke every issue of Demon Knights. We, readers, have to deal with that without unintentional fallout, without unintended insult. Wee! us.
DetailsNaoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon as been around almost 30 years and its adaptations are always their own animal. This is good.
DetailsOscar Zarate and Alan Moore’s I Keep Coming Back is a horror story in which a fairly normal man just has a drink and watches strippers. Expressive, desperate art bringing us low-blow misogyny and a walk.
DetailsFrom Al Hartley to Tom King, Archie, Batman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, Andy Capp, a comic has to get to a point eventually or the diminishing returns and lack of believable consequence make us shut off.
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