The reason I have all eight issues of this 1970s DC science fiction series is three-fold: 1) all my copies are in fair condition at best and at most cost me maybe a couple of bucks; 2) Who's Who; 3) Shag. The last two are intertwined sort of. I first learned of this character from …
Month: January 2023
One-offs for #SciFiComicsMonth
So I've been working my way through a stack of science fiction comics for January (and might not get through the whole stack before the end of the month, so some of these reviews might bleed over into February). There are a few whole runs and series or multiple issues of a title that will …
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
About a year and a half ago, I read Studs Terkel's Working, which was an "oral history" of occupations in the mid-1970s. I reviewed it in this post, and if you read that, you'll get a sense of how I came to know Terkel's work. Working is kind of a snapshot of a time as …
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Time Masters #1-8
Continuing with #SciFiComicsMonth, I continue to be amazed of how many books in this genre I've managed to accumulate in the last few months. I know that some of them have to do with this hashtag month, but others have to do with the fact that I found an entire run or miniseries at the …
The Griffin #1-6
I mentioned the possibility of covering DC's sci-fi offerings in the post-Crisis 1980s in a podcast episode, and I'm still thinking of that, especially since while this was an early 1990s series, The Giffin falls into the sci-fi/superhero hybrid genre and was completely outside of the DC Universe of the time. My understanding is that …
A DC Science Fiction Two-Fer
I've got an enormous stack of DC science fiction books to read, most of which I found in that huge quarter sale back in the fall. Some of the series were fairly interesting to me when I grabbed the issues; others were fairly interesting to me back when they were solicited back when I was …
Tandy Computer Whiz Kids in “The Answer to a Riddle”
I think this is technically #SciFiComicsMonth? I mean, computer science is a science and this is fiction … Anyway, the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comics are something that I didn't know existed until a few years ago when I ran across a beat-up copy of a Superman team-up issue in a cheap bin and grabbed …
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Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man Special
It's not like I had forgot Topps Comics was a thing back in the 1990s because at one point I owned a Captain Victory comic book and I believe I might have bought their adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula when it came out. But when I looked at the cover of the book and saw …
The Year in Uncollecting 2022
Four years in and I'm coming off one of the toughest years I've had, at least on an emotional level. I find that when my anxiety and depression are on a higher setting, I tend to fall into bad habits of spending money, eating more, getting out less, and overally not taking care of myself. …
The Uncollecting 