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This is Past Was Close Behind, a feature that spotlights moments, exchanges, etc. from older comics that take on a brand new light when read in concert with later comic books or events. Basically, stuff that looks hilarious in hindsight. One of the all-time oddest members of the Avengers was Demolition Man, who went by the shortened title, D-Man. He was a vigilante who befriended Captain America during the time period where Steve Rogers had lost the title of Captain America and so was being a superhero as The Captain. D-Man became one of Captain’s closest allies, and so when Cap decided to re-form the Avengers after Inferno, he naturally chose his friend, D-Man, to help join the team. However, tragically D-Man was seemingly lost during battle in the arctic. When he was discovered 50 issues later (by USAgent and Falcon, as Cap was off in space as part of Opetation: Galactic Storm), his brain was muddled from the time spent in the freezing arctic. When he recovered, he became

In every installment of Abandoned Love we will be examining comic book stories, plots and ideas that were abandoned by a later writer without actively retconnng away the previous story. Feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] if you have any suggestions for future editions of this feature. Today, we look at how Martian Manhunter became part of Stormwatch and then, well, became NOT a part of Stormwatch. When DC launched the New 52 in 2011, one of the big parts of the company-wide reboot was that the characters from the Wildstorm Universe, who DC had acquired years earlier, were now integrated into the DC Universe as if they had always been a part of the DC Universe. One of the other major changes was that the entire DC Universe superhero history was roughly five years old and therefore, there really was no longer room for the original Teen Titans AND a current group of Teen Titans, let alone an original Teen Titans, then a New Teen Titans and then the current Teen Titans, so DC deci

After the recent cliffhanger in “B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth: Gods,” you’d think the last thing the series should do next is a step back in time to the 1970s, when Hellboy still worked with the agency and Liz Sherman was just a teenager. But much to my surprise? It’s a welcome shift. Unlike “B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth: Gods,” this new mini-series is a much less grim, happier story; it’s a nice change of pace and a way to stop and catch your breath. Mike Mignola and Scott Allie trade apocalypses and angry gods for ghosts and an angry and scared teenager, which is a good switch. The stakes feel much lower, but in doing so it gives us a time to better look at young Liz Sherman, and her relationship with characters like Hellboy and Trevor Bruttenholm. Allie and Mignola have the voice of a teenager down pat, admittedly one whose pyrotechnic powers accidentally wiped out her family and an entire city block. So she’s unsure of her place in life, she’s assuming everyone’s her enemy and/or afraid o

News broke Sunday afternoon that legendary comic book writer and editor Len Wein had passed away at age 69, and tributes quickly followed from industry professionals and the publishers of his most famous creations. Wein co-created Wolverine with John Romita, Sr. for Marvel Comics in 1974, and co-created major X-Men characters Storm, Colossus and Nightcrawler with Dave Cockrum in 1975. Marvel released a statement on Sunday, stating, “We are deeply saddened to hear of Len Wein’s passing, and send our deepest condolences to his friends and family. Len’s contributions to the Marvel Universe as writer, editor, and member of the Marvel family will never be forgotten. He will be missed.” RELATED: Len Wein, Legendary Comics Writer and Editor, Dies at 69 At DC Comics, Wein co-created Swamp Thing with Bernie Wrightson in 1971, the Christopher Chance version of Human Target with Carmine Infantino in 1972 and Batman supporting character Lucius Fox with John Calnan in 197

In a lot of ways, the ’90s have become overly sweeping shorthand for bad superhero comics, and Marvel’s worst moments from the decade absolutely feed into that reputation. It’s an aimless, desperate decade of stories from Marvel Comics, coming off the highs of Daredevil, Uncanny X-Men and Thor in the ’80s, and spiraling straight into “Maximum Clonage,” bankruptcy, and a Marvel Knights era escape hatch. For every glorious moment of Infinity Gauntlet or Marvels, there were five Marvel events that even nostalgia can’t save. RELATED: The 15 Absolute Worst DC Comics Events Of The ’90s No sphere of the Marvel Universe was spared either, with the X-Men, Spider-Man and Avengers all wallowing in their own pits of shame for years at a time. Indeed, the sales boom of the ’90s truly marked Marvel’s first obsession with heavily crossed over events, meaning storyline ideas could carry on for years at a time. Of course, there’s still plenty of Marvel to like from this time period, whether it be Hulk