So I will be the first person to admit that my experience with Superman comics has been spotty at best. When I was a kid, I owned a few because I loved the movies and shows like Super Friends, but I think that amounted to an issue here and there during the pre-Crisis era and …
Category: Comics
Mystery Box Marvels
At this year's Baltimore Comic-Con, I once again bought a mystery box from Third Eye Comics. It was the second time I'd done so and even though I probably didn't need a box of random comics, I had so much fun going through all the books last year that I had gotten in that mystery …
A #WarComicsMonth Wrap-Up
Among the series and miniseries that I read during this November, there were a few random books that really didn't need a single review, so just like I've done in the past (and did last month for #HorrorComicsMonth), I decided to just do quick reviews of all of them. And this will wrap up #WarComicsMonth …
Light Brigade
My LCS had a quarter bin sale this past weekend, and while it is contrary to this blog's mandate, I have said time and again that quarter bin sales and comic conventions are the exceptions to the rule. Conventions, of course, are about meeting creators and attenting panels in addition to the rows upon rows …
Blackhawk (1989 series)
I've got four posts to write about items associated with #WarComicsMonth, which I finished reading and watching yesterday, and I want to start with what I was looking forward to the most this year, which was reading my way through the 1989 Blackhawk series that was written by Martin Pasko and Doug Moench (who wrote …
Two-Fisted Tales #2, 3, and 5
So last year at the Baltimore Comic-Con, I went to the TwoMorrows Publishing booth and bought their retrospective about war comics called Our Artists At War. It's a fascinating read ifyou have never had the chance to look at it, and one of the series of comics that jumped out at me was EC's contribution …
A #HorrorComicsMonth Rundown … in November
Like I said last time, I fell significantly behind in my blog posts and updates, although I was "participating" quite a bit in September and October. Of course, October is all about horror and #HorrorComicsMonth is the official theme. Over the years, I've gained a fondness for horror books, especially the older ones, and so …
Conan the King #50-55; King Conan (2021-2022 series) #1-6
When Conan the King #50 opens, we're back where we left off ... in issue #28. I am not sure when the decision to cancel the book came about; Conan the King, unlike most of the other books in Marvel's line, was a bi-monthly 48-page book (and cost $1.50). But after a long story arc …
Continue reading Conan the King #50-55; King Conan (2021-2022 series) #1-6
Conan the King #35-49
As issue #49 of Conan the King closes, our barbarian hero decides to abdicate his throne and head off into the world, leaving Prince Conn in charge of Aquilonia. It's a destiny that was hinted at in an earlier issue by someone who noted that Conn would be an even greater king than Conan, and …
King Conan #14-19, Conan the King #20-34
I was actually going to write more than one post here about King Conan so that I wasn't covering such a huge swath of it at once, but time and life get in the way and I found myself more absorbed by the comics than by the need to write about them. I guess that's …
The Uncollecting 