At least for a little while in the 1980s, DC seemed to be doing what it could to do right by the Charlton Comics characters it had purchased a few years earlier. Yes, they were the basis for the heroes in Watchmen because the company famously didn't let Alan Moore use them, and I guess …
Category: Comics
Suicide Squad #11-13
One of the things I'm noticing about this run of Suicide Squad is how John Ostrander takes full advantage of the characters and events of the DCU that he has available to him, as well as how he ensures that some of the well-known events like Legends continue to resonate. Take, for instance, these two …
Suicide Squad #8-10
I'd like to say that this book was unrecognized or underrated during the time it was published, but I don't know if that's true considering that I never read it when it first came out and wasn't even reading comics at the time. I begin with this because even at this early stage, it's starting …
Suicide Squad #1-7
The John Ostrander-penned Suicide Squad book is probably one of the more seminal runs of the late 1980s. With a rotating group of villains and heroes, some of whom were B-list (or even C-list), it's known for breathing life into characters who probably would have ended up in the "mort" pile otherwise. Furthermore, it's known …
Some Comics in Brief 11/21/19
The last month or two have not wanted to let go of me. Between doctor's appointments, after work meetings, before work meetings, professional development days, podcast recording podcast editing, grading, planning, and teaching, I have not been able to see an ending in sight and it's almost Thanksgiving. I mean, what I am thankful for …
Some Comics in Brief, 10/24/19
I've been back on the comics reading horse and decided to take a chance at reading some of the one-off comics of various genres that I've got lying around, making sure to read the horror books that I've pulled out of cheapie bins over the last few years. I haven't read as many comics as …
The CON-undrum Part Two: My Post-Convention Report Card
So there I was, having finally found my favorite comics booth at the Baltimore Comic-Con, with my handwritten list of needed back issues. After ten months of reading books and deciding if I should hold onto them, the moment had finally arrived where I would be put to the test. Could I shop for back …
Continue reading The CON-undrum Part Two: My Post-Convention Report Card
The CON-undrum Part One: Planning to Get More When You Need to Own Less
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
The Shadow (1988) #9, 10
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 …
The Punisher (1987) #14, 16, 21, 22
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 …
The Uncollecting 