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 …
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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, …
Two Types of Beowulf Comics
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 …
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 …
