Today is Claire Temple's birthday!

So here's where the situation stands in the Marvel Comics Universe, vis a vis their crossover event, Secret Empire:

Remember how upset the world got when it was revealed that Captain America had always been a Manchurian Avenger in the employ of Hydra?

DC Comics and IDW Publishing have had their share of property marriages in the past. I was particularly fond of the Star Trek / Legion of Super-Heroes crossover, as it seemed a natural given that both teams were future-oriented, making it easier to breach dimensions and meet.

Climb in and buckle up, boys and girls. This is the event we've been waiting to kick off ever since DC kicked off their Rebirth line with REBIRTH #1.

So if you've been paying attention to S.J.

Thomas Pavitte's MARVEL: SPIDER-MAN 1000 DOT-TO-DOT BOOK makes anyone able to render drawings of their favorite Spider-man characters.

Marv Wolfman and George Perez's NEW TEEN TITANS: THE JUDAS CONTRACT is one of the seminal stories in comics history.

Now that the Superman: Reborn story is behind us, things begin to settle down at the Kent farm in Hamilton County.

Here's the problem I have with comic books that are based on an ongoing television show: you can pretty much rest assured that nothing dramatic is going to happen, because that would shake up the television series -- and no television series is going to let their fans get confused because of an event that happened e