So #FantasyComicsMonth continues and this time around, I'm grabbing some books that I've been holding onto for at least a year in addition to some that I picked up at this year's Baltimore Comic-Con. They both have to do with the same character: Beowulf, the famous viking epic hero that you probably read about in …
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A #FantasyComicsMonth Grab Bag
I'm behind on quite a few things this month because of both work and some personal stuff. Those few things not only include work (in fact, I have a ton of essays to grade that are sitting to my left) but two podcast episodes and a bunch of blog posts for this site. What's been …
Surviving the Game
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Carroll is one of those short stories that for at least a couple of generations in high school English. The premise, in case you're not familiar with it, is that a big game hunter named Rainsford falls off of a yacht and washes up on the private island of …
A Week Sick is a Week Uncollected
I tested positive for COVID on Sunday. It wasn't a surprise because everyone else in the house had it, and I was fortunate enough to just wind up with a really bad cold for most of the week. As I type this, I'm pretty much better but taking it easy for one more day just …
H1/Humanoids Ignition (FCBD 2019), Ignited #1-10
Back in 2019, Mark Waid and a bunch of other creators re-launched Humanoids, an independent publisher that had been around since the 1970s and had once been the publisher of Heavy Metal and other magazines and creator-owned comics. This was a push for creator-owned superhero books, and the "event" that got it started was 2019's …
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Uncollecting Catch-Up 6/16/23-6/27/23
After my last post, I went on vacation for the better part of a week and a half and it's taken me a few days to come back and "recover" from it (so to speak). Prior to heading out, I'd put a dent in my piles and lists and had planned to write way more …
Dammit, Alan!
So, I 've got two #adventurecomicsmonth books here and I gave this post this title because I read them under the influence of one Professor Alan. In one case, he sent this directly to me courtesy of the #comicbookcircleoflife (and I have since returned the favor), but in the other he had covered it as …
Red Atlantis and The Dead Hand
It's #adventurecomicsmonth and while my first thoughts turn to Indiana Jones-type escapades, I am going to stretch the definition here to include spy comics and political thrillers. I mean, Alan seems to be including them in his reads, so why not? I've always enjoyed spy movies and political thrillers; having been raised on a healthy …
What If (vol 1.) #35, 44; What If (vol 2.) #4
I've written about old What If comics in the past and I have always felt that they are worth grabbing from cheap bins whenever you see them. Brett's got a small collection going and I intend to add these to them (although I held on to my copy of "What If Phoenix Had Not Died?"). …
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Some Quickie Reviews of Assorted Comics
So I've been motoring through some back issues lately and much like the Superman books I just reviewed, I thought I'd do some quick reviews here. There's a bunch of Marvel, DC, and independent books in here, and while it's quite a bit, I'm happy to be able to whittle down this pile of unread …
The Uncollecting 