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Regular readers of this blog may know how much I adore finding some real-world measurement scale that can be easily used as the core of a ga...

Last time we took a look at the Advanced Marvel FASERIP (1986) rules with its novel "Power Stunts" rule. In brief: a character can...

The Marvel Super Heroes Advanced Game (i.e., the 2nd edition of the FASERIP rules in 1986), by Jeff Grubb, has a novel rule called "Pow...

The last few weeks on Wandering DMs, we've been playing sessions of the classic Marvel Super Heroes FASERIP system, with me introduci...

For a couple reasons, we've been playing a few games of TSR's Marvel Super Heroes (FASERIP) recently. It's an enjoyable system b...

One thing that's always bothered me is how the Marvel Super Heroes Role-Playing Game (FASERIP) has significantly more detail in the spa...

Okay, so I don't follow the superhero comics as closely as I once did. But I think I grok the following: this summer, both DC and Marvel...

A comic character dying, and then coming back from the dead, is so universally common that it almost doesn't bear mentioning anymore. ...

Recently I got sucked into the fairly extensive Marvel Universe Wiki at Marvel.com. One of the interesting things is that they use a standa...

In 2009, Marvel Comics was bought by the Disney corporation. Generally speaking, this is just one more step in Disney's inevitable conqu...

The X-Men Battle Evil Mutants and Robots on a Special Anniversary This past weekend, my girlfriend and I trucked up to Boston to visi...

In the past week, this blog hit 150+ followers, making it officially "Shift X" as per the Sorcerer's Skull OSR Blogger Advance...

So just recently, the new cartoon that I've been watching is Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes , which I've been viewing piecem...

Last week we saw that my favorite superhero, Thor, lives in my neighborhood of Bay Ridge. Here's someone else who visits from time to ti...

Recently for my superhero fix, I've taken to watching the animated Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes show, from circa 2006, o...

The Ultimates 1 & 2 were the Ultimate Marvel re-imagining of the Avengers by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch, published between 2002 and 2...

So this interaction happened between me & my girlfriend a few weeks ago:  D: [Walks into room.] Hey, let me show you something.  I: What...

Trivia Question: Who was Rogue's first kiss in Marvel publication history? Hint: It's the most awesome possible character, of course...

Most cartoons and comics seem to go through a period of style evolution in their early days. Below are a series of shots of Thor's hamme...