Spider-Man was never my favorite superhero. The idea of a teenage superhero dealing with teenage issues didn’t appeal to me. I had my own teenage issues to deal with, I didn’t need to read about CONTINUE READING…
Lobo hit the scene in 1990 with a bang! He is a brash talkin’ foul mouthed killing machine! To be fair, Lobo made his first appearance in 1983 in the Omega Man comic. Lobo started CONTINUE READING…
Continuing on the vampire theme and more specifically the Castlevania theme I’m reviewing the iOS port of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. If you haven’t’ read the reviews of Castlevania Season 1 & 2 or CONTINUE READING…
Disclaimer: The events in Castlevania Season 2 directly impact Season 3. I’ll try to keep this as spoiler free as possible. Any spoilers are unintentional, but really, you’ve had six months of lock down to CONTINUE READING…
In 1986 Konami released Castlevania in Japan and the following year it was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System and released in America. Castlevania introduced the world to Simon Belmont, a vampire hunter, hell bent CONTINUE READING…
There are all sorts of Halloween treats popping up on the The Retro Network. Keeping with the Halloween season the comic ads we’ll be looking at come from a horror comic book. Unfortunately the ads CONTINUE READING…
The summer of 1985 was a great time for movies, but some of the best movies in 1985 weren’t released in the summer. Movies released in September through December 1985 are some of the highest CONTINUE READING…
I originally planned to showcase ads from the Shadow of the Bat issue #1 for this installment, but when I looked through the comic the ads were less than memorable. I guess a good story CONTINUE READING…
High Score, a new documentary series on Netflix covers the history of video games from the early days of the arcade video games, through the console wars of the 1990’s and onto the next level CONTINUE READING…
Over on the Wizards Podcast, Adam and Michael will occasionally extoll the virtues of comics with gimmick covers from the 90’s. I thought I’d dig out one such comic and see what the ads looked CONTINUE READING…
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