The Ottawa Comic Book Guy

Hi everybody! I have decided that the next little while, I will be doing stories on the characters that compromise what is quickly becoming on of my favourite team books, The Terrifics. Consisting of Metamorpho, Plastic Man (the original elastic hero, older than Ralph Dibny and Mr. Fantastic.), Phantom Girl (an old Legion of Super-Heroes favourite; considering the LSH aren't really in current continuity, except for the appearance of the Emerald Empress in Supergirl and Saturn Girl in Arkham Asylum in DC Rebirth and the Batman/Flash crossover "The Button". That as wicked as she drew the Legion symbol on the window at the prison.) and Mr. Terrific are formed as a team as the results of the DC Dark Knights Metal Crossovers where they discover that the four of them cannot be more than a mile apart from each other or they all die. (Phantom Girl can't even re-materialize for the most part during this current series.) Anyway, the most current issue (#8) cam out today and i...

After a hectic few weeks away from the regular grind (as anyone with children can attest to), a few notes from the world of comics while I was away. The passing of Steve Ditko : Sometime on approximately 29 June 2018, Steve Ditko passed away. Co-creator with Stan Lee of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange at Marvel, creator of Captain Atom and the Question at Charlton, and the Creeper and Hawk and Dove at DC Comics, Ditko was known for the heart and soul he put into every character he worked on (usually by injecting qualities of himself into the astory.) Although he only did 38 issues of the Amazing Spider-Man , these issues defined the character. He created Doctor Octopus, the Lizard and the Green Goblin. He was also involved in the relaunch of the Hulk in Tales to Astonish after his own magazine died after 6 issues. After a fallout with Lee that no one (including Lee) understood what happened, Steve left Marvel and moved on to Charlton Comics where he revamped the Blue Beetle, a...