It's not like I had forgot Topps Comics was a thing back in the 1990s because at one point I owned a Captain Victory comic book and I believe I might have bought their adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula when it came out. But when I looked at the cover of the book and saw …
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The Crow: Hark the Herald
You know, I'm not really familiar with The Crow as a franchise. I own a trade collection of the original James O'Barr comics that I bought around the time that the movie came out in 1994 and still own my VHS copy of the film. Other than listening to my college roommate's copy of the …
DC Comics Presents #67
I guess if you're a DC fan and you're going to read something for #HolidayComicsMonth, this is one of those books that you're eventually going to get around to? Well, I don't think I actually planned on reading this for December, but I will say that when I came across DC Comics Presents #67 at …
Attack!
Even though I have more war comics to read and eventually review for this blog, I decided to close out #WarComicsMonth with this comic, which I found in a quarter bin back in May and whose cover was intriguing enough that I felt compelled to pick up. Published in 1975 by Spire Christian Comics, "Attack!" …
DC vs. Charlton: a #WarComicsMonth Battle
I guess I should start out by confessing that I considered reviewing all of these comics separately as part of a larger #WarComicsMonth review set, but the month of November got all sorts of crazy and I wanted to make sure I got them all in. Plus, I thought it would be interesting to do …
Lost Soldiers #1-5
I'm going with two-fers for the last couple of days of #WarComicsMonth so that I can squeeze everything in. This morning, my review was a modern book and I'm also keeping with the modern/contemporary stuff via Image Comics' Lost Soldiers, a five-issue miniseries from Image by the creative team of Ales Kut, Luca Casalanguida, Heather …
Dark Blood #1-6
While I've been doing my best to flip back and forth between contemporary comics and classic comics in the war genre, I've noticed that most of the issues that I have been reading have been predominantly white, either in terms of characters and creators. This doesn't diminish the stories that I have read nor the …
Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #74
Once again, I'm diving into a Marvel war book, and honestly, it's THE Marvel war book. Yes, I know that I did a 100-episode podcast about The 'Nam, but beyond various Punisher appearances, that comic existed in its own world, separate from the action you'd see in the Marvel Universe. But the World War II …
Weird War Tales #41
When I think of DC's war books, my mind turns to World War II. I don't think anyone is going to fault me for this considering among their most famous war characters are Sgt. Rock, The Losers, The Unknown Soldier, and the Haunted Tank. My favorite of the war characters is actually the World War …
We Stand On Guard
While much of my #WarComicsMonth reading so far has been focusing on older books, especially those "gold standard" comics from DC and Marvel, I have picked up some newer titles in the genre in recent years. They're not from the big two, but tend to come from studios like Image, Boom!, or other independents that …
The Uncollecting 