Wizard 24 August 1993

[@WaltsComicBookChannel]

Love your channel way too much. Bingewatching it like an idiot since I found out about it a week ago (and missing deadlines). Just way too tasty! I feel like all of Comics-KZbin was building up to THIS: The Ultimate History of Comics for people in their late 30s/early 40s. Can't praise and thank you enough for this.

[@russworks2882]

Ditko did pencil the zero issue of Dark Dominion which was released as a card set, but the inks were pretty unexciting, which is about all I remember about it. They sold an illustrated binder so that you could assemble the cards into a story.

[@paulpeartsmith]

“Human Diastrophism” is a wonderful place to start with Gilbert’s work.

[@funnypicturescomics]

YES! Another great episode of WIZARD review....You two are my heroes!!!!!!!!

[@billhasadeathwish2470]

Unrelated. Recently went to Phantom of the Attic and grabbed your whole X-men Grand design. Even my normie girlfriend loved your art and just overall look of your work.

[@cpc874]

Bill Hasadeathwish - Is that a Pittsburgh store?

[@OscarVG17]

I know I picked up Bone because it was featured in Wizard magazines. I wouldn't have known it existed if it wasn't for being mentioned in the magazine from time to time. So I'd say Wizard did help in getting Bone it's eventual success, the fact that the comic is quality obviously being another huge part in that equation. Starman by James Robinson is actually really good. I would easily place this title in the category of best comics coming out of DCU proper like say Hitman, Perez' Wonder Woman or Giffen/DeMatteis' Justice League. It was a bit of a unique approach to a superhero comic in those "extreme" 90s where the main character was as far as extreme as they come. Using the Starman backstories to create a solid comic story. I really enjoyed that title. I've not been a fan of Robinson's later endeavors, but Starman, that comic is special man.

[@GreenIronFist]

Disney Magazine got me into Bone. They ran it as a serial. Bone was everywhere in the early 90's.

[@apexcomix3200]

Each episode is very inspiring to me. I am releasing my first mini-comic in 16 years, "FemBat!"

[@nathanielknapp8971]

The Kayfabe dudes are totally inspiring! Did you watch Jim's "making zines" episode? I'm burning up wanting to make something! Also, how can we get Fem Bat #1??

[@christopherschmitt7989]

Shorter Wizard coverage = personal heartbreak Thanks for everything guys!

[@Qster83]

Keep these coming! My first issue was #36 spiderman vs lizard cover, Joe Q I think it was!

[@WaltsComicBookChannel]

And yeah, mid to late 93 is where everything falls flat. And Vertigo and Indie stuff is the only option to go forward as a teenage comics fan.

[@SketchbookTimeMachine]

Death of Speedy is where I started- so good!

[@richdannys2906]

About 10 minutes in.. Jim mentions that Max Gaines saved mint copies of each of the EC Comic issues. It was actually Max's son: William (Bill) Gaines. Later, he'd be more famous as the publisher of MAD Magazine..

[@austinshyu4585]

The Golden Age was great. Paul Smith was the artist.

[@paulsutton9278]

Bummed to hear that the Wizard stuff is taking a backseat. This entire time we've been hearing how these issues were before Little Eddie P's time and his stuff was coming up. Now we're getting there and the boys have lost steam for doing them. It's the Wizard Stuff that got me to look at this channel, and the commentary and insight of Ed and Jim that got me to subscribe. It wasn't you guys flipping pages that made it fun, it was hearing discussion from guys inside the industry that did. Oh well.

[@retrovideos1445]

If you can find it breed is definitely worth a read

[@christophernixonart]

It's fun to look at the fan art and see who went on to be a professional. I saw some art from Ron Lemen in their, too. He's a pretty successful illustrator.

[@MattHall]

That story about stealing the Robin costume is really good, he's told it a few other times, definitely worth seeking out

[@Quiro26]

I admit that I liked some Ultraverse titles, don't hold that against me .

[@Qster83]

Ultraverse definitely had some good ideas! And I'd love to see marvel use them in some way

[@OscarVG17]

Ultraverse wasn't that bad. They certainly weren't as bad as some of the comics published by the other publishers at the time. Nothing that I would say ranks as some of the best I've read, but some enjoyable comics nonetheless for (me at the time) younger readers. With Perez, Darick Robertson, Breyfogle, Chaykin, Dodson, Starlin, Mike Zeck, James Robinson, Cully Hamner etc. etc. They had a solid talent roster creating comics. There's a reason they had a pretty big market share with their Ultraverse comics at the time,..

[@DforDembol]

I like the new Love & Rockets TPBs. They may be smaller in size, but the art still looks great. So far I have only two books with Jaime's stories, but I will get them all eventually. At first it may be a bit hard to get round the enormous cast, tons of plots and side-plots and everyone's everchanging hairstyles. It took me two readings to finally get hooked, but even before that I would just look through the books for something like a month. Every panel, every page is a work of art. So much of ridiculously good cartooning. Just the compositions and spotting blacks alone can take years of your life to study (but to be honest I'm a sucker for these particular things). I'm with 90s Ed on that if I ever become publishable I'd like to draw like this.

[@elijahcollier8348]

you never see Jim Shooter and the Final Boss from Streets of Rage 2 at the same place/time

[@rydowyt]

Picked up the ‘Locas’ Love & Rockets book the library, can anyone tell me if this is a good place to start?

[@danwilson2310]

Yes. Yes it is. Jaime is a little sci-fi influenced at first, which isn't a bad thing, but he really gets going after the first few stories or so. Honestly, my favorite comics ever START in that collection. There are many more after that.

[@rydowyt]

Zinc Comics thank you!

[@rydowyt]

Dan Wilson thank you!

[@jasongott1094]

I was 18-19 when Image started and I was in a gap year before college and living at home rent and bill free, so all the money I made was disposable. I bought all of the Image titles including books like Shaman's Tears and I just remember being so underwhelmed by them. They just seem so sterile.

[@jcoriha]

Paul Smith did The Golden Age. Both The Golden Age, and Starman are in my top books of the 90s (along with The Spectre, JSA by Parobeck, & Sandman Mystery Theatre). The Golden Age characters were oddly enough the best "superhero" comics of the 90s.

[@henryferkey4505]

Music For Mechanics: A Love & Rockets Collection is a great read and the first L&R I read.

[@cpc874]

I had this issue ... as well as many others. Wizard was a great mag. Introduced me to so many different books I never would have read. And, man, they weren’t afraid to roast Marvel! They buried the Clone Saga for years.

[@nathanielknapp8971]

Nice coverage, as always, but I am remiss you didn't mention the cool b&w ad for Batman Grendel #1 facing the Top 100 page. If you don't read Grendel it's never a bad time to check it out, especially the Hunter Rose stuff and Warchild, which was a cool Grendel Prime story. I remember seeing the Warchild comics my middle school classmate had and thought he was Venom and got a huge verbal lashing from a fellow 13-year-old, lol! I got into it all later, in my early 20s working in a comic shop, and its total fire! Another thing, and I'm not trying to be a picky jerk, but the era of Uncanny X-Men that Ed dropped-off on also had a lot of Chris Bachalo issues and that was some really cool stuff too. In my opinion better comics than in the earlier 90s. Keep it real, guys! I love every episode!

[@cpc874]

Dave Campeti! Wow! That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. I have a friend who knew some people who worked for him. They cursed his name for years after.

[@Chance0]

2 years in, does that mean another 4 hour comics journal episode?

[@loringbush3319]

The 1993 Spider-Man animated series is the best Spider-Man cartoon ever. Yes they did make a 1992 Captain America

[@loringbush3319]

🎥 and yes i still have my Captain America movie on 📼. It's way better than today's Captain America. That was way before Marvel's Ultimate 🗑 run.

[@samnoirstoysandcomics1169]

Spider-Man 90's theme. Joe Perry of Aerosmith

[@ZacharyCallen]

I remember that Peter David interview, which is ....kind of odd.

[@Howard_the_Duck]

90s superheroes were my childhood. I'd take Marvel in the 90s over today's Marvel in a heartbeat.

[@jv7x]

I know you said you'd be slowing down on the Wizards but it's been over a month. I'm ready for issue 25.

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

We're speeding up now! We've recorded several Wizards and will start rolling them out soon!!!

[@jaybee8764]

Starlin might be known for being the writer during the Death in the Family but it was me and my reader cohorts who killed Robin and if I had to do it all over again I would kill him again (HaHaHaHaHa)

[@KretchWretch]

Paul Smith! Used to draw Uncanny X-Men!

[@funnypicturescomics]

Hey Ed? Do you have any past issues of SPAWN or VIOLATOR? I can't exactly remember which one, but I sent in some fan art and it was published!!! I drew a pic of VIOLATER (in CLOWN form) saying: "What do I have to do to get an issue of SPAWN around here...sell my soul?"

[@ballpointpress]

I liked a lot of Malibu's Ultraverse. But I never had any time at all for Hard Case. Prime was pretty cool for a year or so. edit: agree very strongly about the Dark Horse colouring. Was hideous. Also agree about how shit the X-Men comics were after Claremont left. Just absolutely sucked.

[@raulever]

Peter Laird was not very hapy with some artists drawing the turtles

[@MrXXpainkillerXX]

dude, brat pack is so bad, it reads like a comic that Fredric Wertham would write to scare parents like a reefer madness for comicbooks