With accomplices John Paul Leon and Doug Braithwaite, Alex Ross (covers and story) and Jim Krueger (story and script) unleashed the Earth X version of the Marvel universe in a three incredible miniseries beginning with 1999’s Earth X, continuing into Universe X and concluding with Paradise X. The three longform stories have stood the test of time and are available in two omnibus editions.
The incredible storytelling present in Geiger since the beginning (even in the pre-Ghost Machine issues) continues in this issue with guest artist Eduardo Pansica and inker Norm Rapmund filling in, at least on the first 18 pages, for artist and co-creator Gary Frank, who rejoins the series in this issue’s epilogue
It was, after all, three beautiful drawn and nattily attired dinosaurs with guns. Actually, two dinosaurs...
When Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti came down from New York and talked to those of us on the Overstreet staff at the time about what they had planned for their Marvel Knights imprint, The Inhumans was the one that I didn’t see how it could work.
In describing comic books, it’s almost as much of a cliché to call a work “trailblazing” as it is to call its creator “legendary,” but sometimes a creation lives up to the hyperbole. Mike Grell’s Jon Sable, Freelance was and is one of those works.
Mike Zeck’s cover for Master of Kung-Fu #83 might be my personal prototype for a cover that did its job
What if you were a brilliant scientist – Stephen Hawking-type brilliant – but like Hawking, you were in a body that...
The deluxe, collector’s edition of the Origins of Marvel Comics includes a new Alex Ross take on the original cover, essays by Ryall, Tom Brevoort, Ross, and Larry Lieber, as well as an interview with Fireside editor Linda Sunshine.
Breathtaker was the story of Chase Darrow, whose kiss is eventually deadly, yet who is craved by men nonetheless. Cultured by the government to have these powers, anyone who loves her pays the ultimate price. She is conflicted about her powers and was on the run from the government. They sent another of their creations, The Man, after her.
I’ve previously called Geiger the best monthly comic on the market at the moment, and after reading Geiger #16, it’s easy to stand by that claim.
