What happens when the biggest names in villainy collide in the Awesome Arena? You have one of the greatest tournaments in the history of comics! If you thought that the Tournament of Champions was good, wait until you see what we've got in store for you this time! The Tournament of Evil will be kicking off on Monday, July 7th. There's a couple of changes to the rules from our previous tournament but it's all very easily to follow. As with most things ... Read More

Marvel.com featured the full list of their releases set for September. Needless to say, it looks like it's going to be one hell of a month for comics. Secret Invasion out the wazoo, more Ellis-less Thunderbolts and more symbiote than you can shake a stick at. Here's a couple of titles I'm especially looking forward to this September. Age of The Sentry #1 The Golden Guardian of Good finally gets another mini-series to call his own! This time, we travel back to the silver ... Read More

Over the past couple of months, I've kicked around a bunch of different titles that have peeked my interest a little bit but have yet to make it onto my esteemed pull list. Those of you that have been around here for a while might remember when I was rambling about Wolverine's solo title as well as Geoff Johns' Green Lantern book. Well, both of those have successfully passed my very demanding and overly critical tests to become the newest titles on ... Read More

I finally got around to reading through the second issue of Trinity yesterday night and can officially say, much like I anticipated a couple of months back, it's let me down. For the record, this isn't some angry, bitter Marvel fanboy lashing out at DC. Although...I am a Marvel fanboy...and can get angry and bitter sometimes...but that's besides the point. Regardless of that, there are some serious issues I have with the current Busiek/Bagley comic that I'm hoping will be resolved fairly ... Read More

After months of combat, the Awesome Arena has come to a close with it's Tournament of Champions. In the first ever tournament, we saw the greatest heroes in comics take to the arena and settle once and for all who was the most powerful character in comics and pop-culture. Ladies and gentlemen, a champion has emerged... It's been a pretty rough ride for Batman having been involved in battles with some of the best that the comic book world has to offer as ... Read More

A somewhat lightened workload here on Panels of Awesome has given me time to fine tune an idea that I've had since the early stages of this website. That idea being the incorporation of a forum into this ever growing little community of comic book fans. This isn't exactly the first time that this idea's been tried but like I said earlier it's been fine tuned with a new layout that is much easier to navigate as well as the idea of ... Read More

Rex tells the story of a former hero cop named Bill Orlowski who, after being framed for a crime he didn't commit and then breaking out of jail, embarks on a mission of personal revenge in a vendetta against those who set him up. While the character's name is actually Orlowski, he goes the much more ferocious and primal name of Rex for most of the story which really fits well with both his mission and his character. This comic is written and ... Read More

Many of you longtime readers might realize that this is actually a reprint (I'm hilarious, I know.) of something similar we did a while back when we were still harbored on the Wordpress.com servers. Well, I figured it had been nearly seven months since the first countdown, now seemed more than fitting than ever that we revisit and revise the original list, with the Tournament of Champions officially ending this week, and maybe get an even more accurate version. Not to mention, ... Read More