Who Watches the Nightwatch Part 2: Failure to Launch

February, 1993.  In the past few months, several of Marvel Comics' top talents have fled the company to form Image Comics, and their new creator-owned books are selling like hotcakes.  Without Lee, McFarlane, and Liefeld, Marvel is reeling.  It's time for something new.  Something bold.  Something that would be exactly like that book McFarlane is writing, Prawn or something.  Get me Terry Kavanagh.

Man, they missed a perfectly good opportunity for him to say his own logo there!  I love it when guys do that.

Who Watches the Nightwatch Part 1: Respawn

4thletter! is a great comics blog.  As a Venom aficionado, I've especially enjoyed Gavok's We Care a Lot feature, a series of articles which chronicles the character's "lethal protector" escapades through the '90s and beyond.  For the next little while, I'd like to shamelessly rip him off emulate him, and run a similar series about a character's obscure '90s adventures.  But here's the twist.  I'm not going to write the article about a character like Venom, who's been featured in movies, TV shows, and made into innumerable action figures.  That would be too easy.  Too enjoyable for both me and this blog's tens of readers.  Instead, I'm going to write about a character nobody likes.  A character that nobody ever liked.  Not even me - and I like Cardiac.

"Where's my mini-series?  Annex got one!  Annex!"
(Web of Spider-Man Annual #10, art by Mark Tenney and Keith Williams)