After The Phoenix Gambit re-established things and gave the book momentum, the creative team of Suicide Squad had the unenviable task of following it up in some way. Now, I suppose they could have gone for the next bannered storyline, which is what writing for the trade would get us about ten to fifteen years …
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Superman (vol. 1) #404 and Superman (vol. 2) #3
These were two comics that I legitimately had to search the blog to check and see if they were misfiled. I've had them for a long time and I could have sworn I had already read and reviewed them. But I guess I mistook them for other late pre-Crisis/early post-Crisis Superman books. Not that they're …
Continue reading Superman (vol. 1) #404 and Superman (vol. 2) #3
Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld (1984 ongoing) #12, 13, 14, 15, Special; (1987 miniseries) #1, 2
Amethyst has been on my "series to complete" list for quite a while now, ever since I bought the Showcase edition and discovered that it did not hold the entire run of the series. I thought that five issues and a special would be easy to find, especially since that comic is not that in …
Damage Control vol 2 #3 and 4; vol 3 #2 and 4
Yunno, I'm not sure why I have these. I think I was going through my LCS' back issue stash during one of their Shortboxtober promotions a year or two ago and threw them in there because I thought they might be fun to read. I'd heard about the Damage Control series and I did like just about …
Continue reading Damage Control vol 2 #3 and 4; vol 3 #2 and 4
Conan: The Destroyer #1
Yesterday, I looked at Blade Runner. Today, it's issue #1 of Conan: The Destroyer, a Marvel miniseries that was also taken from a treasury-sized Super Special. Now, I didn't take the time to watch the movie along with it because it wasn't on my list or in my queue, and I don't recall being particularly fond of it …
Blade Runner
How hard is this one to write? I mean, it's not like I'm completely unfamiliar with Blade Runner, but I have to admit that up until last week, I'd only ever watched the film once, when I was in high school and the "Director's Cut" version had come out on VHS. I remember liking it at the time, although …
Star Trek (2nd DC Series) #27, 34
I've been building a collection of Star Trek comics over the last couple of years, but have mainly been focusing on collecting DC's first series, which I will probably start reading once I feel that I've collected enough of the series (or at least after I've finished runs of other books). These two comics, however, …
Doom Patrol/Suicide Squad Special #1
This is one of the Suicide Squad books I read out of order, mainly because I started reading the books I had and vowed to fill in the rest later. Last week, I accomplished some of that by visiting my LCS and picking up a few of the missing issues, including this special. Funny enough, …
Quickie Movie Reviews
I've watched so many movies in the last few weeks of my summer break that I'm having problems keeping track of them all and I'm also having trouble keeping up with my mandate to review what I've been watching. So I decided that I'd do a post with quickie movie reviews. If I own the …
Where I’m Calling From
Over on “Required Reading …” I posted a review of a recently read book that was on my reading pile for this project and I thought I would cross-post here.
Keep, Sell, Donate, or Trash?
Donate.
While I do enjoy reading short stories, I’m not the biggest fan of making my way through short story collections, especially those by the same author. I can imagine that it’s because I’m so used to reading novels that when I go from story to story, I expect the continuity that comes with going from chapter to chapter of a novel. So I guess that’s why it took me the better part of three years to read this collection of stories by Raymond Carver.
This book, which is an anthology of his short stories, is a holdover from college, a purchase required by a professor in my advanced fiction writing class. I can’t remember reading beyond just a couple of the stories back in the late Nineties, but I did remember that my professor was trying to use Carver as an example of a writer who could fully develop very…
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