My Rating “On The Inside, Looking Out” From a hidden position inside an asteroid belt, a mysterious metal giant sits in wait as alien mecha scan the debris field for possible dangers. The pilot of the concealed robot switches the giant’s long range targeting system from passive to active as the Insectoid monsters hover closer […]
My Rating “First Contact” The Great Smoky Mountains – Tennessee, three men have arrived at a cave entrance high up in the Appalachians. Hyer, a local spelunker, had learned of the cavern system from a survey map completed late in 1986. With a high chance of finding a new vein of gemstones or quality crystals,
My Rating “Chi Vhap Chi Chi” When we last saw Benjamin Grimm he was rocketing through space, cast away by the time hopping villain known as Psychopomp. Ben remembers seeing a dimensional gate opening and his weightless body zipping through to a pocket dimension then darkness. When he next opened his rocky eyelids the ugly
My Rating “If Memory Serves…!” It’s shopping day at the Fantastic Farmhouse and Ben wants snacks! If the local shopping mall sells laboratory flasks and geometry books the trip will be the perfect trifecta. As the men focus on their various home repair projects, Susan and Alicia hit the dusty trail in the Grimm’s Fantastic
My Rating “Welcome to New Jersey” Seaside Heights, New Jersey, Ben Grimm and his wife Alicia have just finished dinner at one of Seaside’s most luxurious French restaurants. Ben holds his breath in excitement as Aunt Petunia opens a sealed envelope given to her and her husband earlier in the evening. Inside Petunia finds a
My Rating “The Enemy Of The Good” On the run from Maria Hill and her C.I.A. led taskforce, the members of the Fantastic Four have arrived at the farmhouse of Ben’s great-great-great-grandma Bertha. Now they’ve decided to lay low and wait for the Baxter Building to reappear in New York City. Aunt Petunia is there
My Rating “The Hulk & The Thing: The Big Change” Yancy Street – Lower East Side Manhattan, the year 1987, Ben Grimm stands at the entrance to a back-alley slum, a recently thrown tomato drips down his face. Laughter from a teenage boy echoes off the brown stone walls leading deep into the urban canyon.
My Rating “A Clobber In Time” Welcome to the Krakoa University symposium on superhuman and mutant relations. Tonight’s guest speaker is the legend himself, Benjamin Grimm of the Fantastic Four. Will the loveable blues-eyes make a personal connection with this latest batch of mutant college kids? Nope! Welcome to your biggest PR nightmare yet, Ben.
My Rating “Prologue” Night has come to the forest moon of Endor. As bonfires are being lit across the tree village of Chief Chirpa, Ewok families begin to congregate around the Royal Hut. It is time for the weekly celebration and storytelling. The tribal shaman known as Logray calls for the first tale of adventure.
My Rating (Originally printed in: Stars Comics – Ewoks #01, 1985) “The Rainbow Bridge” A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Tragedy has fallen upon a band of hunters traveling on the forest moon of Endor. The Ewok Princess Kneesaa has been wounded by the poisonous nightshade thorns. Now two brave scouts,
