One Nerd's Effort to Let Things Go
I'll be attending the Baltimore Comic-Con tomorrow, just like I have been every year for the past five or six years, and while I'm doing some of my usual con prep of getting my signing list together (much smaller than last year because we're spending less time there), I have also been thinking of how …
Continue reading The CON-undrum Part One: Planning to Get More When You Need to Own Less
During last year's Shortboxtober event at my LCS, I grabbed a number of comic books that DC published featuring The Shadow in the late 1980s. I managed to find most of the Howard Chaykin series as well as these two issues of the book by Andrew Helfer and Kyle Baker. I'm going to see if …
Professor Alan Strikes Again! I came home one day to a package with these four comics in my mailbox, all of which were from the Punisher ongoing that ran from the late 1980s into the early 1990s. I bought the first four issues when they came out (covered on episodes of "Origin Story" a few …
Sitting in the back of one of my long boxes behind some old Wizard magazines (all of which I will be offloading on eBay for very cheap) are some free graphic novel catalogues that I picked up from my LCS at one point or another. More importantly, when I picked them up, I went through …
I literally bought this comic because I had heard that there was an issue of Eclipso that was a complete bloodbath with a bunch of heroes being killed off in an assault on Eclipso's base/temple in the Amazon. It wasn't. I will say that I've heard good things about this series, which spun out of …
With the exception of a few issues, the 1991 Armageddon 2001 crossover from DC was meant to be read in any order, with the main title bookending all of the annuals that were the crossovers. Justice League Europe Annual #2 was one of those exceptions, as it was the penultimate chapter in the event with …
Why I have four comic books that were either created by, featured art by, or featured characters created by Jack Kirby is a case of me just randomly grabbing comics out of back issue bins because they looked interesting or they tied into something bigger or more important (or so I thought). I'll fully admit …
