It's really hard to review romance comics. I did one a few years ago with Stella on the second episode of my "80 Years of DC Comics" miniseries and that issue of Secret Hearts was kind of a goofy mess of a comic. The stories were all similar and I think we had more fun …
Category: Reviews
Secret Origins #5
My last review featured a Crimson Avenger story and in that, I mentioned how I would have liked to have seen the way that Roy Thomas had weaved The Crimson Avenger into the post-Crisis era, especially considering that Superman's departure from the Golden Age would have made him the very first costumed hero. Well, Thomas …
Golden Age Secret Files and Origins #1
I have a number of Secret Files and Origins comics from the late 1990s and early 2000s, most of them related to the various Titans teams that were around. They can be hit or miss because they are a dump for stories that wrap up loose ends in continuity or something that's clearly a try-out …
Batman #401
I looked at the beginning of the post-Crisis Batman in Detective Comics when I read the Dark Knight Detective trade that collected Mike W. Barr's run on the book (although I believe Joey Cavalieri wrote that first post-Crisis 'Tec issue), and here I am looking at the very first post-Crisis issue of Batman. Now, I …
Arak, Son of Thunder #1-10, 30
While my last review, about Arion: Lord of Atlantis #1, was a sword and sorcery book that I found underwhelming, I didn't have the same issue here with Roy Thomas' Arak: Son of Thunder, which was a similar type of book. With art by Ernie Colon and a number of different inkers (including Tony DeZuniga, …
Arion: Lord of Atlantis #1
Here's one that was bought purely for the cover; moreover, purely because I used to see the cover in a Joe Kubert School ad (Hi Rob!) in the early 1990s and always thought it was totally badass. The comic? Not as much. I was familiar with Arion because of his appearance in the early parts …
Uncollecting Update: February 2019
As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 1 (153/155) Books Read: 5 (130/139) Comics Read: 25 (663/738) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 155 Movies While I did get to the theater to see The Lego Movie 2, I didn't watch much of anything this month except for my blu-ray of Star …
Marvel Fanfare #59
This is my last issue of Marvel Fanfare and the second to last of the series. It's also the last of a Shanna four-parter that was written by Steve Gerber. Chapters 1-3 had been written back in the late 1970s and featured art by Bret Blevins and this part was drawn by Tony DeZuniga. The …
Marvel Fanfare #39
I think this was the second or third Marvel Fanfare issue I bought and the reason I grabbed it was because it had Joe Staton art. I'm not familiar with Staton doing any Marvel characters--everything I have seen from him was for DC. The main story is a Hawkeye solo adventure where he ... has …
Marvel Fanfare #28
While the Marvel mutants of the Eighties and Early Nineties are one of the few corners of the Marvel Universe where I've got experience, the Canadian team of Alpha Flight is yet another one of my many blind spots. I own the first issue and it's on my "to read" for this blog, but beyond …
The Uncollecting 