I've always thought that annuals can be a big letdown. Granted, my high-water mark for annuals are the New Teen Titans annuals of the early 1980s and G.I. Joe Yearbook #3, so I may have set the bar a little too high. But throughout my comics collecting career, I've read a lot of annuals that …
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Suicide Squad #17-19
Heading into the end of its second year and having a supernatural superhero story behind them, issues 17 and 18 of Suicide Squad see the rturn of The Jihad, the "all-terrorist" group that is sort of the anti-squad, or this book's version of The Fearsome Five. It's a ... well, I don't want to say …
DC Graphic Novel #1: Star Raiders
Graphic novels are ubiquitous these days but back in the early 1980s were a fairly new concept, and something you could only get at one of the few comic book stores that had begun popping up as the direct market began to take hold. Later in the decade and the early 1990s, stores like Waldenbooks …
Suicide Squad #14-16
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 …
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 …
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The Uncollecting 