March Madness – I Am Legion
From the desk of Doctor Leonard Samson: David Haller is a young boy trapped in the body of a man and lost in a maelstrom of emotions he can’t understand. He’s been described as autistic and...
View ArticleTales from the Longbox – Uncanny X-Men #168 (1983)
Every other week, Jason Shayer will highlight an issue or a run of issues pulled from the horde of comic book long boxes that occupy more room in his house than his wife can tolerate. Each of these...
View ArticleTales from the Longbox, Back To School Edition – The New Mutants #1 (1983)
Every other week, Jason Shayer will highlight an issue or a run of issues pulled from the horde of comic book long boxes that occupy more room in his house than his wife can tolerate. Each of these...
View ArticleTales from the Longbox – Uncanny X-Men #141-142 (1981)
Every other week, Jason Shayer will highlight an issue or a run of issues pulled from the horde of comic book long boxes that occupy more room in his house than his wife can tolerate. Each of these...
View ArticleTales from the Longbox – Alpha Flight #1 (1982)
Every other week, Jason Shayer will highlight an issue or a run of issues pulled from the horde of comic book long boxes that occupy more room in his house than his wife can tolerate. Each of these...
View ArticleTales from the Longbox – The Wolverine Limited Series (1982)
Every other week, Jason Shayer highlights an issue or a run of issues pulled from the horde of comic book long boxes that occupy more room in his house than his wife can tolerate. Each of these reviews...
View ArticleBiff Bam Pop’s Holiday Gift Guide 2013–Marada The She-Wolf Hardcover Collection
Everyone knows a loved one that’s a fan of sword and sorcery and high fantasy. Whether they are comic book or novel readers, video game enthusiasts, film watchers, art lovers or mad-for-it role-playing...
View ArticleBAMF! Your Way To Nightcrawler #1 On The Wednesday Run–April 9, 2014
There are a lot of comic books released by a multitude of comic book publishers every Wednesday, carefully (or, sometimes, haphazardly) displayed on store shelves, each one vying for your attention and...
View ArticleTales from the Longbox – Uncanny X-Men #143 (1981)
Every other week, Jason Shayer will highlight an issue or a run of issues pulled from the horde of comic book long boxes that occupy more room in his house than his wife can tolerate. Each of these...
View ArticleBiff Bam Pop’s Favourite Couples – Kitty and Peter
If you grew up reading comics in the 1980s, you were probably like me and had a crush on Katherine “Kitty” Pryde. She was a geek’s dream: smart, bursting with energy, played video games and liked...
View ArticleEnsley F. Guffey On… War Comics
Each week, one of Biff Bam Pop’s illustrious writers will delve into one of their favorite things. Perhaps it’s a movie or album they’ve carried with them for years. Maybe it’s something new that...
View ArticleEnsley F. Guffey On… War Comics
Cover of Battle Action 198. Joe Colquhoun, art. Each week, one of Biff Bam Pop’s illustrious writers will delve into one of their favorite things. Perhaps it’s a movie or album they’ve carried with...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Guide 2015: Comic Book Collections Part 3
We’ve been through these comic book collection lists twice already this month, but there’s more. Oh, how there’s so much more! You can read through Part 1, which mentioned a host of great, affordable...
View ArticleGlenn Walker Reviews X-Factor – Countdown to X-Men: Apocalypse
When most folks these days think of X-Factor, they think of that failed Simon Cowell talent show that ran for three seasons on Fox. I think of the short-lived teaming of the original X-Men that first...
View ArticleGlenn Walker Reviews Civil War II #3
This week brings us the third issue of the Civil War II main series from Marvel Comics. In the last issue the precognitive Inhuman Ulysses predicted the future deaths of all the heroes at the hands of...
View ArticleCivil War II: The Oath – Endings and Beginnings
There’s only one thing worse than a failed project, and that’s a failed project that sells itself out as an ad for the next project. That’s what the epilogue to the disappointing Civil War II really...
View ArticleRenew your love of the New Mutants with a new Epic Collection
One of my favourite comic books growing up in the 80s was The New Mutants. As a very young kid who fell in love with the X-Men’s Kitty Pryde thanks to Marvel’s Secret Wars II and Uncanny X-Men 196...
View ArticleHeroes and Villains – Reviewing The Week’s Marvels 4-5-2017
This week in Heroes and Villains our selection of new Marvel Comics include the continuing battle between Kang and the Avengers, the aftermath of Inhumans Vs. X-Men and another chapter in the Captain...
View ArticleHeroes and Villains – Reviewing The Week’s Marvels 4-26-2017
This week in Heroes and Villains our selection of new Marvel Comics is an all-female non-Secret Empire-exclusive bunch. Meet me after the jump for my reviews of Mighty Captain Marvel #4, Elektra #3,...
View Article#FXC17 Exclusive Interview: John Bolton On Horror, His Art & His Graphic...
Artist John Bolton has had a long and storied career in comic books and sequential art. He made the jump from working in English magazines such as Warrior, to burgeoning American periodicals like Epic...
View ArticleTales from the Long Box Vol. 2 # 9: JP Revisits Epic Illustrated # 22
Every weekend this summer, we’ll be bringing you a new installment of a 12-part series of reviews of meaningful comics found in the collections of our writers. “Long Box” refers to the lengthy,...
View ArticleCountdown To X-Men: First Class: JP Studies The Work Of 3 X-Men Artists in 3...
In preparation for the latest film in the X-Men film franchise, this week at Biff Bam Pop we’re counting down to the Friday release of X-Men: First Class with a series of x-focused articles. It seems...
View ArticleIDW Publishing Announces Jim Lee’s X-Men Artist’s Edition
If you’ve never owned or even flipped through an IDW Artist’s Edition, let me tell you, there’s no better way to go deep into an artist’s creative work. It’s like holding their portfolios in your...
View ArticleX-Men: God Loves, Man Kills Extended Cut #1 Adds New Content To A Classic Story
There were many new Marvel books that hit shelves this past week, but for me, the one that really feels of the moment we’re in is nearly forty years old. X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills Extended Cut #1...
View ArticleFrom the House of Ideas: “X-Treme X-Men #2” Delivers Classic Claremont Vibes,...
It’s the final From the House of Ideas of 2022, and seeing as how I took off a week for the holidays, I want to kick it off with the first volume of Captain America: Symbol of Truth, titled Homeland....
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