So I'm going to round out #HorrorComicsMonth with a post about yet another EC reprint. My kid and I found this in a treasury/oversized bin at this year's Baltimore Comic-Con and since I'd been interested in seeing what reprints I could find, I snatched it up. Does it go without saying that I loved it? …
Month: October 2022
What If … (various issues)
I think I've reviewed an issue or two of What If … on this blog, so forgive me if I have already told my What If … origin story. I first encountered the comic with issue #4 of the second series. This was the "What If … The Alien Costume HAD Possessed Spider-Man?" issue that …
Secret Origins #37
I'm about five issues away from completing my Secret Origins collection (after which I may do a re-read-along with Ryan Daly's old podcast). All of them are from pretty late in the 50-issue run and have eluded me for some time. This landed in my LCS' bins last Friday for $1.99, so I grabbed it. …
Classics Illustrated #128: Macbeth
While I am not sure that horror fans would classify The Scottish Play as part of the genre, I'm going to say that an encounter with witches who play with the fate of a mad Scottish King can definitely qualify for #HorrorComicsMonth. So I saved this one for October. Macbeth is my favorite of Shakespeare's …
Complaining is my Default Setting
There's a scene in The Matrix where Agent Smith is villain monologuing at Morpheus and he says: "Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some …
Fear Case #1-4
I've got a pile of independent comics from the past five years that I'm currently rereading. The reason for this is that they're mostly miniseries or longer full runs, and I'm trying to figure out if I want to keep them around. Did I enjoy them the first time I read them? Will I enjoy …
Justice League of America #202
I probably shouldn't be buying these DC and Marvel grab bags at my LCS, but sometimes I can't help myself. Three bucks for five comics that are in meh condition or aren't really key issues? Yeah, you would too. So this George Perez cover on a pretty beat up copy of Justice League of America …
Dracula: A Symphony in Moonlight and Nightmares
The 1980s graphic novels from Marvel and DC have proven to be discount shelf catnip for me lately. That's probably because they've been popping up a lot at my LCS and at fairly reasonable prices. For years, the only ones I had were a couple of random DC ones as well as the "God Loves …
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Horror Anthologies for #HorrorComicsMonth
I don't know why I'm drawn to anthology comics, especially those with three or four stories in them. Maybe it's the fact that they, by and large, aren't published these days with any regularity beyond a few specials or tribute comics. So they have a certain old-school newsstand charm to them. I've got three that …
Vampirella FCBD 2022 Special
So this is my first Vampirella comic ever. I've been familiar with the character, of course, ever since she was being published by Harris Comics back in the 1990s and I would gawk over her rather skimpy outfit and provocative poses in the pages of Previews (and sometimes, I think, Wizard). But I never bought …
The Uncollecting 