So by looking at Mike's Amazing World of Comics, if you wanted to get into Hawkman or Hawkworld, DC spent the summer of 1991 giving you no less than four jumping-on points: the Armageddon 2001 tie-in annual; the two War of the Gods crossover issues; the trade paper back of the three-issue miniseries; and issue …
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Hawkworld #15, 16, Annual 2
So this is where I literally came in when it comes to Hawkworld. Not Hawkman, mind you--I remembered him from Super Friends and Crisis--but the whole concept of the post-Crisis Hawks. Back in 1991, I bought these three issues off the stands because they were part of two company-wide crossovers, War of the Gods and …
Hawkworld #10-14
After the Byth storyline, Hawkworld is at one of those impasses that happens to a lot of comic and television shows when they have to move on from the defeat or death of a big bad. Thankfully, John Ostrander (and Tim Truman before him) had spent enough time laying groundwork via Thanagarian politics that this …
Hawkworld #1-9, Annual #1
So before I start, I probably should qualify this set of reviews of the ongoing Hawkworld series from the early 1990s with two caveats: As with the Huntress ongoing, I'm going to hold off on my rating of Keep, Sell, Donate, or Trash until I'm done with the entire series. I realize that Hawkman's continuity …
Detective Comics #595; Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1, 2, 4, 5
Norm Breyfogle had passed away just prior to my LCS' "Shortboxtober", so when I saw these issues in the bins that afternoon, I threw them into the shortbox. I had read the first four issues of Shadow of the Bat back when they first came out, but didn't own them and at roughly a quarter …
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The Brave and the Bold #188, 196
A month or two ago there was some random twit spouting off on social media about how Jim Aparo was a terrible artist. Now (as my friend Michael Bailey is fond of saying) you can't argue taste, but you can school an snot-nosed little fanboy on what art quality really means, which is what most …
DC Retroactive: The 1980s — Justice League of America and Green Lantern
Around the time that DC was getting ready to launch The New 52, a continuity reboot experiment that in my opinion was a pretty bad idea, they published specials featuring marquee characters and teams called "RetroActive." Each one featured a new story that took place during those books in a particular decade (the 1970s, 1980s, …
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Justice League of America #258-261
The End of the Justice League of America. With a Legends crossover banner and four covers that got increasingly dramatic (the final one being my favorite with "JUSTICE LEAGUE of AMERICA THE FINAL CHAPTER" in huge letters behind and below Vixen), this was a story I originally owned way back in the early Nineties, having …
Justice League of America #250
Justice League Detroit is one of those weird things that you know happened but always have to go back and check to see if they did. As a concept, they were only around for 2-1/2 years and would be unceremoniously cleared out (and mostly killed off) during the Legends event to make way for what's …
Justice League of America # 198, 212, 217, 218, 219, 220
Before I get to the review of these comics, I am going to offer up some commentary about writing reviews of comics for this blog and the blog itself. I mean, I'm sure this could be its own post entirely and maybe I'll expand on this point in another reflection, but I was prepping another …
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The Uncollecting 