I'm behind on quite a few things this month because of both work and some personal stuff. Those few things not only include work (in fact, I have a ton of essays to grade that are sitting to my left) but two podcast episodes and a bunch of blog posts for this site. What's been …
Category: Comics
A Week Sick is a Week Uncollected
I tested positive for COVID on Sunday. It wasn't a surprise because everyone else in the house had it, and I was fortunate enough to just wind up with a really bad cold for most of the week. As I type this, I'm pretty much better but taking it easy for one more day just …
H1/Humanoids Ignition (FCBD 2019), Ignited #1-10
Back in 2019, Mark Waid and a bunch of other creators re-launched Humanoids, an independent publisher that had been around since the 1970s and had once been the publisher of Heavy Metal and other magazines and creator-owned comics. This was a push for creator-owned superhero books, and the "event" that got it started was 2019's …
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Uncollecting Catch-Up 6/16/23-6/27/23
After my last post, I went on vacation for the better part of a week and a half and it's taken me a few days to come back and "recover" from it (so to speak). Prior to heading out, I'd put a dent in my piles and lists and had planned to write way more …
Dammit, Alan!
So, I 've got two #adventurecomicsmonth books here and I gave this post this title because I read them under the influence of one Professor Alan. In one case, he sent this directly to me courtesy of the #comicbookcircleoflife (and I have since returned the favor), but in the other he had covered it as …
Red Atlantis and The Dead Hand
It's #adventurecomicsmonth and while my first thoughts turn to Indiana Jones-type escapades, I am going to stretch the definition here to include spy comics and political thrillers. I mean, Alan seems to be including them in his reads, so why not? I've always enjoyed spy movies and political thrillers; having been raised on a healthy …
What If (vol 1.) #35, 44; What If (vol 2.) #4
I've written about old What If comics in the past and I have always felt that they are worth grabbing from cheap bins whenever you see them. Brett's got a small collection going and I intend to add these to them (although I held on to my copy of "What If Phoenix Had Not Died?"). …
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Some Quickie Reviews of Assorted Comics
So I've been motoring through some back issues lately and much like the Superman books I just reviewed, I thought I'd do some quick reviews here. There's a bunch of Marvel, DC, and independent books in here, and while it's quite a bit, I'm happy to be able to whittle down this pile of unread …
Quick Reviews of Assorted Superman Comics
In my FCBD quarter-bin grabs, I found a lot of Superman books. Most of them were from the triangle era and were books that I owned in trade or could easily read on DC Infinite, but here and there I came across a few that were old enough to pique my curiosity or were "deluxe" …
Wonder Woman (vol 1) #298
If there's any book from the DC's Bronze Age that could be called "underrated" at times, it has to be Wonder Woman. Yes, there's certainly some goofiness in the title, but there is a stretch where the book is pretty solid, especially with Gene Colan and Frank McLaughlin on art. This issue, titled "Catacombs", is …
The Uncollecting 