by Becky Cloonan, Paul Pope, Molly Crabapple, John Leavitt, Junko Mizuno, Dash Shaw, James Kochalka, Johnny Ryan, Michael Kupperman, Nick Bertozzi, Jason, Nicholas Gruewich, Becky Cloonan, James Kolchalka, Stan Sakai, Nicholas Gurewitch
As a child, my primary exposure to comics came from the Marvel stockpile with a sprinkling of DC, Archie, and Richie Rich. Being an Air Force brat living overseas for many of my prime being-brainwashed-by-comics years, I had access to The Stars and Stripes bookstore on base, and not much else. It wa...
A collection of riffs on the Marvel universe. Darker and less family friendly than the Bizarro compilation for DC. Not bad overall, but inconsistent.
This book was a great idea, and it plays out really nicely. Get indie comics creators of every stripe to play around with Marvel characters? It's a fucking win-win, Marvel gets to look like they've got a sense of humor about themselves, fans get weird out-of-universe stories, and non-fans get a book...
Peter Bagge's Megalomaniacal Spider-Man and Tony Millionaire's battle between Iron-Man and a giant Dwight Eisenhower is more than worth the price of the paperback edition.