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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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
The Uncollecting 