Roy Thomas' reconciling of what he lost as a result of the erasure of Earth-2 as a result of Crisis continues in this issue and also gets a little help from Paul Kupperberg, who provides Power Girl's new origin along with a retelling of the origin of the Golden Age Hawkman. Moreover, this is still …
Author: Tom Panarese
Secret Origins #7
So far, when I've looked at these Secret Origins issues with two stories, I've found one story to be outstanding and the other to be okay but ultimately underwhelming. This one, which features Guy Gardner and the Golden Age Sandman is the first exception to that rule. Steve Englehart and Ernie Colon (with Rodin Rodriguez …
Secret Origins #10
Another one of my "Legends Crossover" purchases, this is a "multiple choice" origin story that features four different stories by four different creative teams. Most Comics Readers Who Read Superhero Stories By Very Important Writers will probably gravitate to the fourth story in this book, which written by Alan Moore with art by Joe Orlando, …
Secret Origins #8
Yes, I have quite a number of issues of Secret Origins. Yes, I'm reading these out of order, which is something I explained in my first post. Plus, I'll probably put the title down for a little while, pick up a few, and then put it down again. It really is one of those great …
Secret Origins #9
With a few exceptions, Secret Origins is a one-and-done series, so I don't have to read every issue I own in order (and some I have read in the past, so I don't have to read them for this project at all). It's kind of nice because after working my way through The Huntress and …
Young Romance #171
It's really hard to review romance comics. I did one a few years ago with Stella on the second episode of my "80 Years of DC Comics" miniseries and that issue of Secret Hearts was kind of a goofy mess of a comic. The stories were all similar and I think we had more fun …
Secret Origins #5
My last review featured a Crimson Avenger story and in that, I mentioned how I would have liked to have seen the way that Roy Thomas had weaved The Crimson Avenger into the post-Crisis era, especially considering that Superman's departure from the Golden Age would have made him the very first costumed hero. Well, Thomas …
Golden Age Secret Files and Origins #1
I have a number of Secret Files and Origins comics from the late 1990s and early 2000s, most of them related to the various Titans teams that were around. They can be hit or miss because they are a dump for stories that wrap up loose ends in continuity or something that's clearly a try-out …
Batman #401
I looked at the beginning of the post-Crisis Batman in Detective Comics when I read the Dark Knight Detective trade that collected Mike W. Barr's run on the book (although I believe Joey Cavalieri wrote that first post-Crisis 'Tec issue), and here I am looking at the very first post-Crisis issue of Batman. Now, I …
Arak, Son of Thunder #1-10, 30
While my last review, about Arion: Lord of Atlantis #1, was a sword and sorcery book that I found underwhelming, I didn't have the same issue here with Roy Thomas' Arak: Son of Thunder, which was a similar type of book. With art by Ernie Colon and a number of different inkers (including Tony DeZuniga, …
The Uncollecting 