Episode 13: Nomad #1

It’s time to start working through my pile of non-Spider-Man and non-X-Men related Marvel titles. It’s an eclectic mix, comprised largely of #1 issues I bought because I thought #1’s were important because I was a kid and allowed to be dumb with small amounts of money. So on that note I take a look at a harsher and grittier look at Marvel’s America with the man known as Nomad!

Listen to Episode 12: Wolverine # 50.

The man so jaded, he’ll shoot his own logo.

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And now for some choice art samples of the story by Fabian Nicieza with art by S. Clarke Hawbaker.

Good luck trying to figure out how many fingers are on this guy’s left hand.

The sunglasses are on… NOW it’s serious.

“You’re a scruffy looking drifter, staying at the worst hotel in town and carrying around a baby that looks nothing like you… care to dive into my cleavage?”

I’ll just point out that he’s leaving a crying baby with somebody he doesn’t know while he goes off to break into a building in the middle of the night… while wearing sunglasses.

Finally, a reminder that the podcast theme song is by Erica Driesbach, and you can find more of her work at her website right here.

90s Comics Advertising: X-Force T-Shirt

Get it now! You’ll be the coolest kid at school!

Seeing the words “Liefeld” and “Masterpiece” is such close proximity feels inherently wrong.

Episode 12: Wolverine #50

Generally I try to avoid doing the same kind of comic back to back (X-Men related in this case,) but between Deadpool coming out this month and this episode’s guest, burlesque supervillain Alexa Luthor, having a February show to plug this just kind of happened this way. Not a loss though, because Alexa got to come in and talk about everybody’s favorite vertically challenged Canadian!

Listen to Episode 12: Wolverine # 50.

I think somebody may have gotten hold of this file.

You can subscribe to the Council of Geeks Podcast, home of 90s Comics Retrial on iTunes or on Stitcher.

And now for some choice art samples of the story by Larry Hama and art by Mark Silvestri.

Why knock on the door when you can crash through the window?

What’s more distracting: Wolverine’s eyes being right at the secretary’s chest lever or the bald “professor” who ISN’T Xavier?

The solution to every problem is claws!

See? Claws fix it all.

If you want to find out more about Alexa Luthor, check out what’s going on over at Green Mountain Cabaret.

Finally, a reminder that the podcast theme song is by Erica Driesbach, and you can find more of her work at her website right here.

90s Comics Advertising: Stri-dex

If I had that comic, I’d be reviewing it.

If you were in the throws of puberty during the 1990s then odds are you fell in for Stri-Dex pads and their zit fighting powers… which in reality were pretty much non-existent, which is why you can’t get the things anymore. At least we have advertisements like these still hanging around, like a stubborn blackhead.