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 …
Continue reading Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #85, 86; Web of Spider-Man #20
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Captain Canuck (2015) #1-3, FCBD 2019 Special
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Teen Titans #82-100; Cold Case #1; Red Robin #20
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 …
Continue reading Titans: Villains for Hire Special #1, #24-38, Annual 1, Convergence: Titans
So there's three directions in which the Titans wind up going after the Blackest Night and Cry for Justice events: Teen Titans continues as it was, Titans becomes a Deathstroke-led villain team, and several of the founding Titans move into Justice League of America. This happened, as I've mentioned a couple of times, when I …
Man, this was tough. I knew that once I started the Titans series, I was going to hit a point where this team is put through the wringer several times over, something that would eventually lead to them breaking up, with several of them headed to the Justice League and a couple of them heading …
The Uncollecting 