22 Gimmicks Archives

Cover image for X-MEN ONSLAUGHT REVELATION #1
You know what they say about Marvel readers: there's one born every minute! But just because Onslaught Revelation makes use of one of the fabled 22 Gimmicks doesn't mean the comic won't be good It just means it will rack up the sweet sales numbers required to please the corporate bean-counters at Disney while helping elder[...]
Aunt May to Get with Doc Ock Again in December's Spider-Man Comics
That's not to say that the quality of the comics themselves are necessarily good or bad; just that it's totally irrelevant if you know how to use Joe Q's 22 Gimmicks to convince enough people to buy them, or to convince a few people to buy enough of them You know what they say about[...]
J.M. DeMatteis to Write 90s Continuity Ben Reilly: Spider-Man Comic
That's not to say that the quality is necessarily good or bad; just that it's totally irrelevant if you know how to use Joe Q's 22 Gimmicks You know what they say about comic book readers: there's one born every minute! Once reserved for aging Boomers and Gen-Xers looking to relive their glory days of the[...]
No Longer Dead Man Logan: Wolvrine Returns Again in Wastelanders
Likewise, resurrecting a dead character is one of the 22 Gimmicks, but that's not exactly what's going on here Another of Joe Q's 22 Gimmicks is rehashing a popular old Marvel story, and that's actually what's happening, because this version of Old Man Logan will star in a story taking place after the original Old[...]