DC's efforts to do something a la Marvel Age have been varied over the years. I'd say that the most successful--and best--was their 1990s version of Direct Currents, which was a pamphlet-sized monthly publication that had features on each of the "big" books out every month along with listings of each book that was coming …
Category: Comics
Blackhawk (1988) #1-3
I probably should have saved this one for #warcomicsmonth, but I found all three issues in a quarter bin on FCBD and couldn't wait to read it. I don't have much experience with Blackhawk as a comic book beyond their appearances in other books and crossovers as well as some of their animated appearances, but …
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #85, 86; Web of Spider-Man #20
A few days ago, I wrote a review of a 2008 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man that was really critical of the violence of that era as well as the art and storytelling. At one point in the review, I noted that a story like that could have been done in the 1980s without as …
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Omega The Unknown
One of the great things about those giant quarter bin sales that my LCS has a couple of times every year is that I can grab random, beat-up copies of obscure superhero books and not worry about whether or not they have to occupy shortbox space if I don't feel like keeping them. Plus, if …
Captain Canuck (2015) #1-3, FCBD 2019 Special
This one's about two months too late because I'd honestly meant to read these books during March, which is #InternationalComicsMonth on the 'ol hasthtag list. But for some reason, I just got caught up with other things and decided to skip it and come back to it at some point. They were books that I …
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The Amazing Spider-Man #576
Coming once again from a Marvel grab bag, this is another adventure from another hero whose adventures I'd checked out of a few years before this issue was published. I'd bought the occasional Spider-Man book as a kid and loosely followed the titles in the early 1990s, dipping in and out but never amassing anything …
Colossus #1, Astonishing X-Men #14, 22
When it comes to the X-Men, I really don't know anything that's happened since 1993. Okay, I know about Onslaught and have gleaned a few things from reading Previews and "best of" lists over on CBR, but for the most part once I left the X-books after "Fatal Attractions" and "Blood Ties", I didn't really …
The Medusa Chain
I have to admit that I have a fascination with DC's early graphic novels from the 1980s. Whereas Marvel launched their line with The Death of Captain Marvel and focused a number of their offerings on their superheroes, DC went in an entirely different direction by sticking with mostly science fiction. The most valuable of …
Teen Titans #82-100; Cold Case #1; Red Robin #20
And so it's come to this. Issue #88, I think, was the first issue of Teen Titans that I picked up since sometime around the middle of Final Crisis, which was in late 2008 and the Titans were somewhere around issue #63. So that's roughly 20 issues that I skipped and 20 issues that I …
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Titans: Villains for Hire Special #1, #24-38, Annual 1, Convergence: Titans
Oh man, where do I start? I actually had to order one of these books online so that I could complete the series, and thank God I had a credit from the site I ordered from, so all I had to pay was shipping. Because this series? Just ... ugh. After the reunited Titans crashed …
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The Uncollecting 