It's #FantasyComicsMonth courtesy of Professor Alan, who sent me this via the #ComicBookCircleofLife. Can I use more hashtags. I need to do a longer blog post or perhaps even a podcast episode about my history with Conan. As it is with many in my generation, it starts with the Arnold Schwarzenegger films, of which Conan …
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Classics Illustrated #108: The Knights of the Round Table
I have this unwritten rule with Classics Illustrated issues: if I see a book that looks interesting and it's under $2.00, I will probably grab it. That's important because sometimes those books go for upwards of $5, especially if they're in good condition and I honestly am not here to collect CGC-quality copies. In fact, …
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Sgt. Preston of the Yukon
I have no explanation as to why I own this comic except to say that I Found it in a quarter bin on Free Comic Book Day and thought it was so random that I had to grab it. So yeah, pretty much that. This is a Dell publication that came out in 1953 and …
Conqueror of the Barren Earth
So I am a mark for 1980s DC science fiction books, especially since they tend to be the oddballs in the company's collection (alongside the licensed property books that aren't Star Trek). I've grabbed a couple here and there, most notably an issue or two of Hex, Atari Force, and the Atari Force-related graphic novel …
Siegel and Shuster: Dateline 1930s
Billed as "Previously Unpublished Works from the Creators of Superman", this is a comic book that was published by Eclipse comics in 1984 that I'd never heard of until I saw it for pretty cheap (definitely less than a new comic) in my LCS' back issue bins. I've never been the hugest aficionado of Golden …
Superman in the Seventies
My history with pre-Crisis Superman stories is spotty, to say the least. While I owned a few individual comics in the 1980s and count Superman: The Secret Years as the official "start" of my comics collection, I haven't owned or read a heck of a lot. In recent years, I've picked up some individual issues …
Revival
Called a "rural noir", Revival by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton was a series I first started noticing in Previews about halfway through its run (which happens often when I flip through Previews). So I decided to start reading it issue by issue on Comixology, sort of as a way to "test" the book without …
Starman vols 7-10
So what do you even say about this comic book that hasn't already been said? I know that I already wrote a review of the first six books of James Robinson's Starman series, but as I sat down to write this one, I was at a loss because I really do feel that I'll be …
The Essential X-Men Vol. 7 and Vol. 8, The Essential X-Factor Vol. 2
We have reached the end of a reading project! Well, sort of. There is definitely more X-Men to read after this if I want to keep reading Chris Claremont's legendary run on the title. But this does mark the end of the reading project that began with the Essential Classic X-Men #1 a few years …
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Starman vols 1-6
I think I might have mentioned how I've been doing a read-through of James Robinson's Starman series, so forgive me if this is a bit of a repeat, but I'm so backlogged on reviews and have been trying to sort through so much that it seems to be a blur of "Did I do this? …
The Uncollecting 