Origins Of The Man-Wolf John Jameson first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #1! He was the astronaut in distress, aided by Spider-Man's emergency rescue. John comes back, affected by space spores to have super-strength and an aggressive new personality, when he tussles with Spidey in Amazing Spider-Man #42! John's a supporting character around the time Doctor Octopus steals the Omni-Wave (and Spider-Man loses his memories!). Those issues start with a story in ASM #53; John appears a few more times. He's glimpsed talking with Captain George Stacy about the nature of ---Spider-Man! Peter and those secret identity worries. In Amazing Spider-Man #124, written by Gerry Conway, our hero sees JJJ attacked- by a werewolf? (It starts happening to Spidey rather a lot during the stories of 1973!) JJJ recognizes something in his attacker, who communicates something human in a returned gaze, too. While Spider-Man's knocked out, Jonah realizes just who the Man-Wolf is!...

Here are some of my favorite cover images from the series: This one, in particular, is the first one I remember, appearing in Mighty Marvel Checklist of my copy of Marvel Tales #66, 1976, one of my first comics, bought as a surprise at a surplus store by my parents---one of their very few gifts of comics, but all the ones in my kids year were pivotal! Another comic they bought me there would introduce me to the Defenders, and the work of the author you'll meet at the end of this post. I resurrected this from 2011; the title change broke the original search engine link, so I'll try restoring that, but presenting the repost here to haunt me this year. Despite their great showdown, Harker's not on the cover of TOD #70 below. Truthfully, cool as this is for showing them in battle and Dracula using his powers, the one; (#32) where Harker's crawling away just barely out of reach of the flying Dracula is just tight, tight, TIGHT! Finally, it looks like the eve...

My latest interview puts the spotlight on Afua Richardson. Affua Richardson will make comic book history as one of three black female writers-the creators of World of Wakanda #1. The popular Black Panther character and his AfroFuturist kingdom- called by writer Ta-Nisha Coates "the light of the Marvel world," springs new blossoms ahead of the 2018 cinematic release by Marvel Studios. Novelist Roxanne Gray, with Coates, pens a new story about lovers Ayo and Aneka- former members of King T'Challa's elite protection squad, the Dora Millaje. All i can give is my unique perspective and my view of the world. A composite of my experiences and influences. That's all any of us can give. -Afua Richardson http://www.outrightgeekery.com/2016/10/25/world-of-wakanda-with-artist-afua-richardson/ has the entire spotlight! World of Wakanda hits stores in November.

Uncut original article featuring Rome’s What IF? As also appearing, amended in October’s V3 Magazine by Cecil Louis Disharoon Art : courtesy Afua Richardson. Sketches for World of Wakanda #1 on sale in November. “Comics Shop News: interview with Jason LeCroy of What If? Comics and Collectables” Bright colors, easily wheelchair-accessible- we’ve arrived at What If? Comics and Collectables, the friendly 21st century portal to the world of comic books at 1850 Redmond Circle, the 700 suite. In May, 2015, What If? brought Rome its first Free Comic Day in years, as it hopes to for years to come. Here’s the comics shop news about the store founded by Jason LeCroy, his mother, Darlene LeCroy, and brother, Jeremy LeCroy- as they celebrate What If’s second anniversary October 19th! What IF? We go inside. From the front door, you pass what I call the Wall of What If?: new comics, counted and poised. Turn around, and find plentiful boxes of old comics- together, the li...

Joe Phillips is a talented artist who will take an assignment, get the work done, and not think much else about the details. That is, after all, how you get more things done! So when my collaborator on his creation Hero Duty from IDW Publishing (as well as his upcoming cartoon, Z-Monkeys) hit me up one September Friday night to see if I'd care to script a page for a benefit, that's about all I knew when I said 'yes.' Three days later, I found an article from page C3 of the New York Times- and got one of the biggest adrenaline jolts of the year! Here's the story, as pasted from the article: The comic book community is coming together to help the victims of the Orlando shooting. In December, DC Comics and IDW Publishing will publish “Love Is Love,” a 144-page comic book whose proceeds will benefit Equality Florida and its fund for those affected by the June 12 attack at the Pulse nightclub in Florida. “I’m a child of the 80s; I grew up with ‘We Are ...

Joyce Chin has been working in comics since 1995 when she pencilled several issues of Guy Gardener: Warrior for DC. Since then, she's has gone on to work on several titles, interiors and some covers, on titles including Hulk, Green Lantern, Vampirella, Xena, Spider-Man, Superman, and Witchblade, with a variety of publishers. She provided the art on a number of covers for Dynamite including Red Sonja, Alice Cooper vs. Chaos, Vampirella, and Lady Rawhide/Lady Zorro. Now her work’s been exclusively commissioned by Marvel. Wynona Earp, #1-5, (Dec. 1996-April 1997) needs to join that list: Joyce Chin penciled #1-3, then the covers of all five issues. (#4 has early work from Pat Lee, who I first noticed drawing Transformers for IDW.) Considering Wynona Earp’s coming back for a second season on SyFy, it’s worth tying these together, nearly two decades apart! Her six covers for Alice Cooper Vs. Chaos are among her most recent published work, but she’s been at it since the ...