Not that it was the big DC Comics company-wide crossover of 1989, but The Janus Directive was one of the few multi-book crossovers to be published between Invasion! and Armageddon 2001, so I guess you could say it was the closest that the company had to an "event" that year. I say this because the …
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The 4400, Season 1
Over the course of several decades, 4400 people vanish in a flash of light, apparently abducted by aliens. Then, on done day, a ball of light appears in the Pacific Northwest and they all emerge having not aged a day. That's the premise for this sci-fi show that ran from 2004-2007, which takes its cues …
Some Comics in Brief 5/3/20
I've got some longer reviews for a huge chunk of Suicide Squad comics I've read in the last few weeks, and I was going to try to review all of these comics individually or at least in sets, but as I looked at the huge stack of comics that had piled up as a result, …
The Quiet Earth
I've known about this movie and have been wanting to see it since it came out 35 years ago, even though it's a very adult science fiction piece and definitely would not have been appropriate for me at eight years old. This is what happens, I guess, when you watch At The Movies every week …
Solaris (2002)
So they send George Clooney to a spaceship that is orbiting a random planet named Solaris where he is supposed to retrieve members of the troubled mission team. While there, he starts seeing his dead wife but it turns out she's an alien mimicking his dead wife and he kind of starts to lose it …
Goodfellas
So like a number of movies on my Netflix DVD queue, Goodfellas was added because I'd wanted to watch it at some point a few years ago and couldn't find it on streaming. Then, I forgot about it and moved on until very recently when Netflix put it back on streaming. So I get to …
The Badger #34, 35, 36, 37, 38
Last year I did two whole series called "Fighting the Indepdendents" and "A Valiant Effort), where I deliberately read all of the independent comics in my backlog (at the time). Most of those books wound up in the donation or trash piles but kept a few with the hopes of collecting more. Mike Grell's Starslayer …
What The–?! #5
There was a time in the early 1990s when I read Mad and Cracked like crazy every summer. That's a really specific time to read those two magazines, but those were my version of Rob Kelly's "Mountain Comics" because I'd only ever buy them while on vacation in New Hampshire. The silly humor appealed to …
Trinity (2008) #1, 3-23
After Infinite Crisis, DC Comics decided to experiment with regular weekly and bi-weekly series, starting with 52 in 2006. 52 was not only critically acclaimed (and I'll have to check it out of my library to see if it still holds up--I sold my copies years ago) but also was a huge seller, so they went for it again in …
The Badger #24, 25, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33
Here we go again ... and I think that by finishing these issues, I'm about halfway through my collection of Badger comics that I pulled out of the quarter bins at my LCS. So far, I haven't hated this title, but I confess that I haven't exactly thought it was the most awesome thing I had ever seen. …
The Uncollecting 