It's #WarComicsMonth and I have a stack of books that I've been saving since last year that I'll be working my way through and hopefully remembering to review on this site (you know how these things go). They are from various eras and ages of comics as well as companies, ranging from Sgt. Fury and …
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Adventures of Superman #500 and The Return of Superman 30th Anniversary Special
It's odd to write a "review" of a comic book that you read and owned 30 years ago, but I wound up with a polybagged edition of The Adventures of Superman #500 in a DC Comics grab bag that I bought at my LCS sometime last year and while I already have the story in …
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Classics Illustrated: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hamlet and The Scarlet Letter
Robert Luis Stevenson's book is some solid 19th Century horror, Shakespeare didn't really write horror in the conventional sense, and reading Hawthorne is torture, so I guess that you can call this a #HorrorComicsMonth entry? Anyway, I've been finding more and more of these prestige format Classics Illustrated issues in the bins at my LCS …
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Legends of Tomorrow #1-6
So at some point a few years ago, I was diving into some very cheap comics and came across a book titled Legends of Tomorrow. At that point, I'd been watching the television series pretty regularly and considering Firestorm was on the cover, I thought I'd give it a chance, especially considering it was a …
HorrorComicsMonth: DC vs. EC
I've written about how much I enjoy following the comics months hashtags over the years, even though I completely miss some and overindulge on others. And in some cases, I can't even remember what the theme of the month was. But I always remember that October is #HorrorComicsMonth. Because duh. It's OCTOBER. Anyway, when I …
Demon Days: X-Men #1
I'm going to classify this as #HorrorComicsMonth material because even though it's a superhero comic, it is an alternate take on the X-Men that has characters fighting a monster. Featuring story and art by Peach Momoko (and adapted to English by Zack Davisson), Demon Days is an X-Men title that was published in the summer …
DC Special #29
Last weekend, because it was Batman Day, my LCS had a "50% DC Back Issues" sale. One of my favorite things as of late is diving into the "DC Misc." and "DC Specials" portion of the back issue bins because I always wind up finding random stuff that I wouldn't have thought to buy. A …
Mini-Reviews of Comics from a Modern-Day Mystery Box, Part Two
I reviewed books from the mystery box last post. These are the ones that tie directly into #FantasyComicsMonth, as there were a number in the box that had sword and sorcery or fantasy themes. Most of them are independent comics, which I think is the case for most fantasy books these days because aside from …
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Mini-Reviews of Comics from a Modern-Day Mystery Box, Part One
Something that you'll hear me talk about once I finally release my Baltimore Comic-Con episode of Pop Culture Affidavit is how I bought a $20 mystery box from one of the booths (I think Third Eye Comics?). There were 25 comics inside plus a trade paperback as well as a few variant cover editions, so …
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OHOTCU?
One of the titles that I haven't really been writing about much on this blog but that I have been slowly collecting is the 1980s Marvel series King Conan (later titled Conan the King). I wound up with a copy of issue #27 in a Marvel grab bag from my LCS once, loved the story, …
The Uncollecting 