It's #FantasyComicsMonth and I've been saving the entire run of King Conan (later retitled Conan the King) for now. I had gotten interested in the series a few years ago when I got a copy of issue #27 in a grab bag from my LCS. Prior to that, I'd never read that many Conan comic …
Category: Reviews
Deadman #1-7
A little more than five years ago (wow, has this blog really been around that long?), I reviewed the masterpiece that was the Andrew Helfer/Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (praised be his name) four-issue Deadman miniseries from 1986. As I was reading, I saw a couple of references to a recently-published series, which is where that …
Secret Origins #31, 45, 46
I don't know how this has happened but in the last month, I've been able to complete two comic book runs and come closer to completing a third just by stopping by my LCS to see what they have in their "Fresh Friday" backstock bins (which, btw, is one of the most simple and best …
Bizarre Adventures #34
December is #HolidayComicsMonth and while I usually have a few books for each of these theme months, I only had one, which was the final issue of Bizarre Adventures, a book that started in magazine form as Marvel Preview, was retitled in 1981 and eventually was sized down to your regular comic book size. This is …
Vertigo
A couple of years ago, I received an Alfred Hitchcock Blu-Ray boxed set for Christmas. I haven't really cracked it beyond the movies I'm very familiar with--Psycho, North by Northwest, Rear Window--so with nothing on a couple of Saturdays ago, we threw in Vertigo, which I think is safe to say is within the Pantheon …
What If … (vol. 2) #48, 49
Whenever I am diving into the really cheap stuff--we're talking the stuff that's beat-to-shit, so it doesn't matter if you keep it--old issues of What If ...? are always a good bet. Plus, my kid likes the series, so I can just offload the books onto them. And they're mostly one-and-done stories (although there's the …
Semper Fi #WarComicsMonth
With the success of The 'Nam in 1986, Marvel had a popular war comic that wasn't a licensed product tie-in for the first time in ... well, probably since Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos saw its last battle. And much like any other time you've got a successful property, there was a need to …
Back into the ‘nam for #WarComicsMonth
When it comes to war comics, I'm partial to ones that have stories featuring the Vietnam War, and that should be a shock to no one since I did a podcast that covered The 'Nam. But with the exception of old issues of that Marvel book, I don't often come across Vietnam stories in the …
A War Comics Grab Bag #WarComicsMonth
So in the small stack of war comics that I've collected since last November, I have some books that I guess you'd consider the more "classic" type of war comics: books that center mostly around World War II and were published in either the Silver Age or Bronze Age by one of the major comic …
My first War Comics? #WarComicsMonth
So, I started my #WarComicsMonth reading with G.I. Joe #55 and #59. And that begs the question: how do you review two comics that you've read multiple times but happened to randomly get in a grab bag? Moreover, how do you review two comic books that have always been two of the most important in …
The Uncollecting 