Alpha Flight (Episode Intro)
Created by John Byrne for Uncanny X-Men 120-121, Alpha Flight served as a foil for the mutant team, and as a connecting device between Wolverine and Canada’s Department H [...]
Suicide Squad (Episode Intro)
In 1986 John Ostrander, Len Wein, and John Byrne plotted/scripted/drew a DC crossover event called Legends, following Crisis On Infinite Earths. A bunch of stuff happens [...]
Fables (Episode Intro)
Fables was launched in 2002 and ran for 150 issues, making it one of the longest-lived Vertigo titles. Created by Bill Willingham, the comic used public domain characters [...]
Hellblazer: Original Sins (Episode Intro)
In 1984 noted musician Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner made a brief cameo in issue 25 of the comic book Swamp Thing wearing a black and red striped t-shirt [...]
The Shadow (Episode Intro)
In 1938 Lysergic Acid Diethylamide was first synthesized by Swiss Chemist Albert Hoffmann. Many folks have enjoyed this creation over the decades [...]
Longshot (Episode Intro)
Most accomplished and noted scholars readily agree that Emo was invented sometime between 1599 and 1601 with the writing and production of Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet [...]
Starman (Episode Intro)
Nostalgia is a funny thing. It has the power to instill positive feelings, to bring comfort and peace in times of uncertainty, or when a person is feeling as if the world they know now [...]
Beauty and the Beast (Episode Intro)
History is a story. It is told by victors and losers alike. Mighty deeds and epic failures, the march of innovation and technology, the rise and fall of civilizations, and [...]
Bone (Episode Intro)
In 1851 the first American edition of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick was published by Harper and Brothers. It was 653 pages long and offered many helpful tips on the art of knot-tying [...]
