So we finally get Batman. I'm sure that one of the reasons that this ongoing series existed in the first place was because of the pre-Crisis Helena Wayne character and the idea that comic fans who knew of her would see the connection to Batman and that would sell the book. In fact, I'm surprised …
Month: January 2019
The Huntress (1989) #14-16
One of the more dominant tropes of "urban" action movies and shows that started with The French Connection and ran right through the Steven Seagal flicks of the early 1990s was that of a neighborhood that resembled a war zone more than an actual city streetscape. I imagine this had to do with New York …
The Huntress (1989) #13
After two six-issue storylines, we get a one-and-done story where Helena Bertinelli is dealing with the fallout from everything that she has been through with her family, the mob, the serial killer, and the mob. It's presented at the very beginning as her being pulled in two different directions and literally being torn apart in …
The Huntress (1989) #7-12
After taking us through Helena Bertinelli's rather brutal origin story in issues #1-6 of her solo series, Joey Cavalieri, Joe Staton, and Bob Smith had the task of following that up with a storyline that kept the reader interested. Personally, I think this is actually harder than an initial arc, much like the second season …
The Huntress (1989) #1-6
My experience with The Huntress as a character begins with the end of her first version; specifically, her death in Crisis on Infinite Earths. As a result, I never had much of an attachment to Helena Wayne and when when I first encountered Helena Bertinelli in a Detective Comics two-parter in the fall of 1992, …
Batman: The Dark Knight Detective, Vol. 1
Reblogging this from Required Reading … because it does fit into the category of reading something that I own but haven’t read. For the record, this is a keeper.
-Tom
As our mutual friend, The Irredeemable Shag, says, “Everyone has a Batman phase.” I think that Stella is still in hers. Mine started in 1990 and while I finally gave up Batman in the early 2000s, I’d say that its high point ended sometime around the middle of the decade. The comics collected in this volume are from a few years before my phase; specifically, they are the first several issues of Detective Comics in the post-Crisis DCU.
I’d read a few of these both digitally and in print over the years, but most of my experience with this era of Detective was via the trade paperback for Batman: Year Two, which I had gotten from the Waldenbooks at the Smith Haven Mall back in the early 1990s. Oh, and sometime in 1990 or 1991, I spent the $5 I earned from the only time I ever umpired a…
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Raver #1
Professor Alan is to blame for this one. And yes, I mean blame ... but in the nicest way possible. Over the holidays, the man spent his well-earned quarters on a number of comic books for his friends and in the package I received was Raver #1 from Malibu Comics. Published in 1993, it was …
Detective Comics #556
So here's one that I had been familiar with but had never read because the cover image was used on one of the introduction pages of The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told. It's also one that, if I had owned it back in the day, I would have definitely held onto because even though there's …
On getting rid of books
One of the most trending Netflix shows lately (is that how the kids say it?) is Tidying Up With Marie Kondo. I haven't watched it yet, but from the way I've heard it described, it sounds like it's a lot like Clean House or any other number of shows where people are coached on how …
The Storm Before the Calm
If you're familiar with the Christian tradition of Lent, then you're probably also familiar with the tradition of Mardi Gras. It wasn't something I actually celebrated when I was growing up--I always assumed it was a regional, New Orleans thing--but over the years, I've seen it become more widespread. Granted, most of that "more widespread" …
The Uncollecting 