So between the Baltimore Comic-Con and a sale at my LCS, I've gotten my fair share of trades and hardcovers lately. Some of them are books that looked interesting or cheap ways to read stories I've always been meaning to; others have been bona fide classics that I've read before or wanted to read and …
G.I. Joe Special Missions #14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26, 28
A few years ago, I did a read-through of several G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero trades that I had collected over the years, beginning with issue #1 in 1982 and ending with the trade that went up to issue #70, which is just beyond when I stopped collecting the book with issue #66 in …
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Attack!
Even though I have more war comics to read and eventually review for this blog, I decided to close out #WarComicsMonth with this comic, which I found in a quarter bin back in May and whose cover was intriguing enough that I felt compelled to pick up. Published in 1975 by Spire Christian Comics, "Attack!" …
DC vs. Charlton: a #WarComicsMonth Battle
I guess I should start out by confessing that I considered reviewing all of these comics separately as part of a larger #WarComicsMonth review set, but the month of November got all sorts of crazy and I wanted to make sure I got them all in. Plus, I thought it would be interesting to do …
Lost Soldiers #1-5
I'm going with two-fers for the last couple of days of #WarComicsMonth so that I can squeeze everything in. This morning, my review was a modern book and I'm also keeping with the modern/contemporary stuff via Image Comics' Lost Soldiers, a five-issue miniseries from Image by the creative team of Ales Kut, Luca Casalanguida, Heather …
Dark Blood #1-6
While I've been doing my best to flip back and forth between contemporary comics and classic comics in the war genre, I've noticed that most of the issues that I have been reading have been predominantly white, either in terms of characters and creators. This doesn't diminish the stories that I have read nor the …
Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #74
Once again, I'm diving into a Marvel war book, and honestly, it's THE Marvel war book. Yes, I know that I did a 100-episode podcast about The 'Nam, but beyond various Punisher appearances, that comic existed in its own world, separate from the action you'd see in the Marvel Universe. But the World War II …
Weird War Tales #41
When I think of DC's war books, my mind turns to World War II. I don't think anyone is going to fault me for this considering among their most famous war characters are Sgt. Rock, The Losers, The Unknown Soldier, and the Haunted Tank. My favorite of the war characters is actually the World War …
We Stand On Guard
While much of my #WarComicsMonth reading so far has been focusing on older books, especially those "gold standard" comics from DC and Marvel, I have picked up some newer titles in the genre in recent years. They're not from the big two, but tend to come from studios like Image, Boom!, or other independents that …
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #36
I guess it's only coincidence that I went from a "G.I."-titled comic from DC to a "G.I."-titled comic from Marvel as a one-two in my #WarComicsMonth reading. Then again, if I was going to make a concerted effort to read war comics for November, I was going to throw in at least one Joe book, …
The Uncollecting 