Professor Alan, in his infinite wisdom, has taken to sending me comic book adaptations of classic literature via the #comicbookcircleoflife. The reading results have been mixed--some of those Classics Illustrated issues were a bit of a slog to get through--but a great positive result has been the growing library of comic literature adaptations in my …
Continue reading Marvel Classic Comics #22: Food of the Gods
Here. We. Go! I have to confess that I only ever intended to buy this trade when DC started reprinting the Wolfman/Perez Titans because while I have owned all of these issues for more than twenty years, I know that they're pretty valuable and since I have a few of them signed by Marv Wolfman, …
My Teen Titans read-through takes me on a detour into the late Nineties, when DC was publishing books with legacy characters and was also taking the time to dive into the "untold" stories of its history. Legends of the DC Universe was one such title, and while I have only read four issues (these two, …
Continue reading Legends of the DC Universe #18, 80-Page Giant #1
When a trade paperback begins with "Silent Interlude", which is easily one of the most famous issues of the series, you know it's going to be good. It would be about thirty issues and three or four years until I actually started collecting and reading G.I. Joe as it came out, so this stretch of …
When I was in high school, a couple of my English teachers had a small poster on their classroom walls that, I believe, came from William Safire. One of the rules was "Avoid clichés like the plague." I keep thinking about that while trying to write this entry. It's supposed to be all about what …
I have to admit that while I had saved Noah Baumbach's 2014 "people confronting middle age" comedy to my Kanopy watchlist a while ago, I kept skipping it in favor of other movies (mostly crappy horror movies and rockumentaries). I'd tried watching his film Kicking and Screaming sometime back in the Nineties, but never got …
So nearly halfway through this second Showcase reprint trade of my favorite teen team, I picked up my hardcover of the Bronze Age reprints to see if there was any gap that I might have to compensate for; after all, I was working with a black and white reprint from one particular cycle of trade …
Continue reading Showcase Presents: Teen Titans Vol. 2 and The Bronze Age Teen Titans Omnibus
With the ongoing (though slightly waning) success of The New Teen Titans, in 1986, DC published Teen Titans Spotlight, a series much like Solo Avengers, featured the various team members in their own stories. It's a series that I will get into more later on when I am finally into the "Baxter Series" era of …
A quick look at Mike's Amazing World of Comics shows me that between 1998 and 2004, DC produced several replica/reprint and "lost" classic Silver and Bronze Age 80-page giant annuals (the "Teen Titans Lost Annual" from 2008 is on that list as well but I'm going to say it doesn't qualify because it has different …
Well, as always, I’ll start with my numbers for the month … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 24 (51/379)Digital Comics Read: 8 (511/538)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (24/83)Books Read: 3 (120/164)Movies Watched: 4 (108/118)TV Shows Completed: 0 (38/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 150 This is a weird month to recap and a weird entry to write because while it's going up on Election Day 2020, it's being written the day …
The Uncollecting 