With a solid issue under his belt, John Ostrander moves into the multi-part storyline here with a last hurrah from Lenin Delsol and Mike Gustovish (although at least one of these issues is a "Man E. Hands" inking job) as the the past starts catching up to someone other than Torin. Like I said, I …
Month: June 2020
Starslayer #9
I'm covering only one issue here because I'm missing issue #10 and this marks the only place (aside from issues #1-4) where I have a gap in my run of Starslayer. It also marks the point where Mike Grell turned over the writing chores to John Ostrander, although the art team of Lenin Dustol and …
Starslayer #7, 8
"He's back! And he's here to stay!" So says the cover of issue #7 of Starslayer, the first one published by First Comics in 1983 following the conclusion of the Pacific Comics series two years earlier. In fact, the inside cover of issue #7 has a text piece by Mike Gold that tells the entire story …
The Shadow (1988) #9, 10
I was curious enough about the Howard Chaykin Shadow miniseries to want to collect the issues I don't own; I can't say the same when it comes to this one. These comics are about halfway through the mature readers series written by Andrew Helfer with art by Kyle Baker (although I don't think Baker is …
Starslayer #5, 6
So this begins my next big run of comics, and I acquired it very similar to how I acquired all of those Badger comics that I recently finished muddling through. I had an issue of Starslayer: The Log of the Jolly Roger (for brevity's sake, I'm going to simply call it Starslayer in my reviews) in a comic …
The Shadow (1986) #2, 4
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Howard Chaykin? Well, it's his turn to figure it out, at least, in this miniseries from 1986 that was one of those Baxter paper "suggested for mature readers" books that was one sign of the huge tonal shift in DC throughout the latter part of …
Fright Night Part II
Oh man, was this one a tough one to find. It doesn't seem to exist in very many places on streaming (at least not in a way that I don't have to pay extra for it) and even Netflix doesn't have it available on DVD (it's in my "saved" list). And while I am not …
Starman (1988) #39-45
So, one of the easy parts of collecting this Will Payton Starman series was that it only lasted 45 issues and I think that I found the majority of them on the very cheap; furthermore, the issues that I am missing aren't particularly valuable (unlike the missing Suicide Squad books that I might just buy digitally or in trade …
Badger #49, 53, 54, 60, 70
I have finally reached the end of this set of Badger comics that I fished out of quarter bins and massive comics sales over the past couple of years. If you have been following me here, you know that with the exception of a few issues, I haven't really been enjoying the series. In fact, at one …
Starman (1988) #26-36
I'm missing issue #25 of the Will Payton Starman series, so I do not have the issue where he ditched what Shagg calls the "peanut butter and jelly costume" and changed to the black, red, and white costume that would finish out the series. I mean, I know that isn't the only reason to own that issue …
