So there's no insightful intro or rhyme or reason to this post except to say that in the last week, I picked several comics up off the reading pile and read them. Some of them do share genres, but they were only chosen because they happened to be on the top of the pile. Anyway, …
Category: Comics
Arion: Lord of Atlantis #25-27, 31
One of the benefits of a quarter-bin sale is coming across random issues of random series, even if they're from the middle of the run. Sometimes I like picking up those books, especially if they are from a long-running series, like The Amazing Spider-Man or Action Comics. Sometimes, I know the character from another series …
My full-length FCBD Grabs of 2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again: one of the cooler things about a quarter-bin sale is when you find an entire run of a series. Last year, I found most of the Vertigo series Coffin Hill and Clean Room. In the past, it's been miniseries like Howard Chaykin's Blackhawk or randomin independent …
Army @ Love
When I rifled through the bins at last year's Baltimore Comic-Con. I came across several issues of a Vertigo series from several years back called Army @ Love. he covers looked intriguing enough, and though it would be interesting. I mean, how do you combine romance and war books? Cynically, it seems. Written by Rick …
Speed Running My Comics Piles
I know that I've tried to catalogue the individual comics that I've read here either in individual entries or groups of small reviews, but I've spent the last several days reading a huge stack of comics. While reading, I thought about doing those reviews but then realized the entry or entires would be incredibly tedious …
Firestar #1-4
Like many people in my generation, I'm familiar with the Marvel character Firestar from Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and while I do know that she made her way into the Marvel Universe back in the Eighties, I wasn't 100% sure how except that it somehow involved the X-Men. I'd read maybe one or two …
A trio of Bat Books
Among the books that I gathered up at the Baltimore Comic-Con either from bins or mystery boxes were several Bat-books from different eras. Two of them were signed--Robin #40 and #41, which were signed by Chuck Dixon. I've automatically decided to keep those (in addition to a Superman issue signed by Dan Jurgens) without reading …
Indie Comics from the Quarter Bin
I'm working my way through the big pile of comics, many of which are from the Baltimore Comic-Con and my LCS' quarter-bin sale over Thanksgiving weekend. I thought I'd try and pop in from time to time with lists of mini reviews covering what I've read. For this, it's a smattering of comics from Image, …
Comics from the Depths of the Nineties
I've been working my way through a pile of back issues that I've bought over the last couple of years, mostly from my LCS' quarter bin sale. In a number of cases, they're beat-up copies of Eighties Marvel books that are so damaged and mildewed, recycling them is really the only option. In other cases, …
The Legend of Kamui
I should start by confessing that I've ready very little manga. There is no real reason for it except that my comic book preferences have always bent toward superheroes and the manga explosion of the last two decades passed me by because of other interests. The Legend of Kamui, therefore, is probably the first real …
The Uncollecting 