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 …
Continue reading Classics Illustrated: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hamlet and The Scarlet Letter
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 …
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 …
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 …
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 22 (61/261)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (2/15)Books Read: 1 (108/126)Movies Watched: 1 (169/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (55/58)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (99/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 172 I probably should have wrapped up #FantasyComicsMonth with reviews of the books I read, but all that …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Mini-Reviews of Comics from a Modern-Day Mystery Box, Part Two
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 …
Continue reading Mini-Reviews of Comics from a Modern-Day Mystery Box, Part One
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, …
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 …
The Uncollecting 