I guess the most obvious thing to say is that the Chris Claremont/John Byrne run is probably the most celebrated run on Uncanny X-Men. Not that there aren't others that are held up in high esteem by readers who are more more experienced X-fans than myself, but the run that encompasses both the Dark Phoenix …
Author: Tom Panarese
Suicide Squad Annual #1
I've always thought that annuals can be a big letdown. Granted, my high-water mark for annuals are the New Teen Titans annuals of the early 1980s and G.I. Joe Yearbook #3, so I may have set the bar a little too high. But throughout my comics collecting career, I've read a lot of annuals that …
Suicide Squad #17-19
Heading into the end of its second year and having a supernatural superhero story behind them, issues 17 and 18 of Suicide Squad see the rturn of The Jihad, the "all-terrorist" group that is sort of the anti-squad, or this book's version of The Fearsome Five. It's a ... well, I don't want to say …
DC Graphic Novel #1: Star Raiders
Graphic novels are ubiquitous these days but back in the early 1980s were a fairly new concept, and something you could only get at one of the few comic book stores that had begun popping up as the direct market began to take hold. Later in the decade and the early 1990s, stores like Waldenbooks …
Suicide Squad #14-16
At least for a little while in the 1980s, DC seemed to be doing what it could to do right by the Charlton Comics characters it had purchased a few years earlier. Yes, they were the basis for the heroes in Watchmen because the company famously didn't let Alan Moore use them, and I guess …
Suicide Squad #11-13
One of the things I'm noticing about this run of Suicide Squad is how John Ostrander takes full advantage of the characters and events of the DCU that he has available to him, as well as how he ensures that some of the well-known events like Legends continue to resonate. Take, for instance, these two …
Doom Patrol/Suicide Squad Special #1
This is one of the Suicide Squad books I read out of order, mainly because I started reading the books I had and vowed to fill in the rest later. Last week, I accomplished some of that by visiting my LCS and picking up a few of the missing issues, including this special. Funny enough, …
Suicide Squad #8-10
I'd like to say that this book was unrecognized or underrated during the time it was published, but I don't know if that's true considering that I never read it when it first came out and wasn't even reading comics at the time. I begin with this because even at this early stage, it's starting …
Personal Archaeology 6: I’m Through With the Past, but the Past Isn’t Through With Me
I recently bought a new journal. It's an off-brand Moleskine-type book that I picked up at Target because the leather-bound one I had been writing in was getting completely filled. Funny enough, these are the frist two fancy-looking journals I have ever owned or written in because with the exception of a number off lears …
Suicide Squad #1-7
The John Ostrander-penned Suicide Squad book is probably one of the more seminal runs of the late 1980s. With a rotating group of villains and heroes, some of whom were B-list (or even C-list), it's known for breathing life into characters who probably would have ended up in the "mort" pile otherwise. Furthermore, it's known …
The Uncollecting 