A little more than five years ago (wow, has this blog really been around that long?), I reviewed the masterpiece that was the Andrew Helfer/Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (praised be his name) four-issue Deadman miniseries from 1986. As I was reading, I saw a couple of references to a recently-published series, which is where that …
Category: Comics
Secret Origins #31, 45, 46
I don't know how this has happened but in the last month, I've been able to complete two comic book runs and come closer to completing a third just by stopping by my LCS to see what they have in their "Fresh Friday" backstock bins (which, btw, is one of the most simple and best …
Bizarre Adventures #34
December is #HolidayComicsMonth and while I usually have a few books for each of these theme months, I only had one, which was the final issue of Bizarre Adventures, a book that started in magazine form as Marvel Preview, was retitled in 1981 and eventually was sized down to your regular comic book size. This is …
What If … (vol. 2) #48, 49
Whenever I am diving into the really cheap stuff--we're talking the stuff that's beat-to-shit, so it doesn't matter if you keep it--old issues of What If ...? are always a good bet. Plus, my kid likes the series, so I can just offload the books onto them. And they're mostly one-and-done stories (although there's the …
Semper Fi #WarComicsMonth
With the success of The 'Nam in 1986, Marvel had a popular war comic that wasn't a licensed product tie-in for the first time in ... well, probably since Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos saw its last battle. And much like any other time you've got a successful property, there was a need to …
Back into the ‘nam for #WarComicsMonth
When it comes to war comics, I'm partial to ones that have stories featuring the Vietnam War, and that should be a shock to no one since I did a podcast that covered The 'Nam. But with the exception of old issues of that Marvel book, I don't often come across Vietnam stories in the …
A War Comics Grab Bag #WarComicsMonth
So in the small stack of war comics that I've collected since last November, I have some books that I guess you'd consider the more "classic" type of war comics: books that center mostly around World War II and were published in either the Silver Age or Bronze Age by one of the major comic …
My first War Comics? #WarComicsMonth
So, I started my #WarComicsMonth reading with G.I. Joe #55 and #59. And that begs the question: how do you review two comics that you've read multiple times but happened to randomly get in a grab bag? Moreover, how do you review two comic books that have always been two of the most important in …
Our Artists At War
It's #WarComicsMonth and I have a stack of books that I've been saving since last year that I'll be working my way through and hopefully remembering to review on this site (you know how these things go). They are from various eras and ages of comics as well as companies, ranging from Sgt. Fury and …
Adventures of Superman #500 and The Return of Superman 30th Anniversary Special
It's odd to write a "review" of a comic book that you read and owned 30 years ago, but I wound up with a polybagged edition of The Adventures of Superman #500 in a DC Comics grab bag that I bought at my LCS sometime last year and while I already have the story in …
Continue reading Adventures of Superman #500 and The Return of Superman 30th Anniversary Special
The Uncollecting 