As I made my way through the "First Strike" podcast that looked at every issue and tie-in to the 1988 DC Comics crossover Invasion!, I would pull out any comic that I owned and read it before I listened to the episode. This wasn't very time consuming because I only have the trade paperback of …
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Letter 44 #1-35
The new President of the United States, Stephen Blades, gets the traditional "welcome to the job" letter from the outgoing POTUS, and while he expects the usual words of encouragement and advice that one president gives to another, he gets something entirely different: aliens are out there in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter …
Secret Origins #15, 18
My steady look at Secret Origins continues--though I have to admit here that I'm not picking one up the minute I put another one down and take breaks or read something else between them--and here we have newer, updated origins for characters that I, at best, was only ever marginally interested in: The Spectre, Deadman, …
Secret Origins #17
In this issue, Gerry Conway, Carmine Infantino, and Tony DeZuniga take on an updated origin for Adam Strange while Roy Thomas, E. Nelson Bridwell, Howard Simpson, and Bob Lewis give us the new origin of Dr. Occult. It's the first pairing that I was a little wary of, considering that up to this point, Thomas …
Breaking Rules on and Reaping the Benefits of FCBD 2019
Free Comic Book Day was last Saturday. I've gone just about every year for the past six or seven years, and I have the same M.O. every year. I go in completely blind to what is available (i.e., I don't look at the solicits in Previews) and plan on dropping at least a little money …
Continue reading Breaking Rules on and Reaping the Benefits of FCBD 2019
Secret Origins #16
Picking up random issues of Secret Origins between winding my way through entire runs of comics seems to have been a good idea, as long as this series remains as good as it has when it comes to the one-and-done type of story. In this one, there's Hourman by Roy Thomas and Michael Bair along …
Brigade (ongoing) #1, 3, 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14; The Ferret #1-3
It was the Nineties. Dear God, it was the Nineties. I'm reviewing these in a huge chunk because honestly, they are the very epitome of everything that people make fun of about the early part of the decade. Coming out right during the same month--at least based on cover date because Image was notorious for …
Continue reading Brigade (ongoing) #1, 3, 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14; The Ferret #1-3
The Phantom Zone #1-4
My first Superman comics were pre-Crisis, but they were so close to the Byrne reboot and I was so young, so it's not like I can tell you that I have a deep history with the Man of Steel's comics. In fact, it's been through reading The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told and by finding …
DC Universe: Legacies #1, 2, 4-10
Back when I first started collecting comics, I was a huge fan of Crisis on Infinite Earths and The History of the DC Universe. I mean, I"m still a huge fan of both of those and have even gone so far as to get my copies of the collected editions signed. But back in the …
Hawkworld #27-32
And so we come to "Flight's End." I'll admit that my last review wasn't much. The Eclipso chapter was a fun tie-in and issue #26 seemed to bridge the gap between the last storyline and this one, which is the very last of the series. I actually bought the very last issue (#32) when it …
The Uncollecting 