Sitting in the back of one of my long boxes behind some old Wizard magazines (all of which I will be offloading on eBay for very cheap) are some free graphic novel catalogues that I picked up from my LCS at one point or another. More importantly, when I picked them up, I went through …
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Eclipso #17
I literally bought this comic because I had heard that there was an issue of Eclipso that was a complete bloodbath with a bunch of heroes being killed off in an assault on Eclipso's base/temple in the Amazon. It wasn't. I will say that I've heard good things about this series, which spun out of …
Justice League Europe Annual #2
With the exception of a few issues, the 1991 Armageddon 2001 crossover from DC was meant to be read in any order, with the main title bookending all of the annuals that were the crossovers. Justice League Europe Annual #2 was one of those exceptions, as it was the penultimate chapter in the event with …
Kirby and After-Kirby Kirby
Why I have four comic books that were either created by, featured art by, or featured characters created by Jack Kirby is a case of me just randomly grabbing comics out of back issue bins because they looked interesting or they tied into something bigger or more important (or so I thought). I'll fully admit …
Regarding the Legion
So back when my LCS had its last "Shortboxtober" event, I took a deep dive into the bins and decided to grab a handful of Legion of Super-Heroes comics. I've only actively read the Legion's adventures once, starting in 1994 right before Zero Hour and going until about 1996 or so, probably quitting shortly after …
Secret Origins #12, 14, 21, 24, 25, 26, Annual 2
Lots of continuing my read through my incomplete run of Secret Origins, and I continue to enjoy at least one story per issue, sometimes even both. I'm going to wind up keeping all of these because the missing issues are on my want list and then I plan to read along with Ryan Daly's now-defunct …
Continue reading Secret Origins #12, 14, 21, 24, 25, 26, Annual 2
Starslayer: The Legend of the Jolly Roger #30
Published in 1985 by First Comics, this probably should have been something that I wrote about during the "Fighting the Independents" series, but it wound up being forgotten and I picked it up to read and review on its own. I guess that's how these things go. Anyway, this is space pirates created by Mike …
Continue reading Starslayer: The Legend of the Jolly Roger #30
Hex #2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14
If I am to give credit where credit is due, it's my early years of comics collecting where I was buying all of Crisis on Infinite Earths and as many of its crossovers as I could that got me slightly interested in Hex, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series that was the follow-up to the Jonah Hex …
A Valiant Effort: Turok, Dinosaur Hunter
The Valiant Effort comes to a close with one of the company's most notable titles, a book that had its origins in the Gold Key series Turok Son of Stone and made a chromium splash when its first issue hit because it was so over-ordered and so de-valued by speculators that it became a symbol …
A Valiant Effort: Solar, Man of the Atom
The penultimate title in the stack was one of the more marquee characters in Valiant's lineup, a character that like Magnus and Turok, was published by another comic company back in the 1960s and to my knowledge is not part of the current Valiant lineup--in fact, I think that the relaunch was only with the …
The Uncollecting 