What is it with late Bronze Age books and cults? I think I know the answer to that one, and it honestly shouldn't have been a surprise to see a Satanic cult in a Ghost Rider comic, but when I came across this story that details the origin of Witch Woman (I think that's what …
A Batman Two-Fer for October
Because of a DC grab bag at my LCS and the store's "Fresh Fridays" promotion where they put out some recent big-deal purchases every Friday, I wound up with these two Batman comics, both of which are Bronze Age goodies. And being that I'm a little too lazy to write multiple reviews here, I've decided …
Uncollecting Update September 2022
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 7 (54/63)Digital Comics Read: 0 (469/471)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (15/53)Books Read: 1 (114/141)Movies Watched: 1 (100/123)TV Seasons Completed: 1 (78/90)TV Shows Completed: 1 (32/37)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 238 I have to say that I had fun with #FantasyComicsMonth and am looking forward to #HorrorComicsMonth in October and #WarComicsMonth in November. I guess …
The Visitor (2020)
I kind of missed Valiant's revival at its height, which probably happened because it came about during a time when I was either completely out of comics or minimally involved. I ran across their booth at the Baltimore Comic-Con one year, though, and bought a couple of trades, and every once in a while, I …
Three Random Non-Fantasy Comics for September
While most of my comics this month were for #FantasyComicsMonth, I did have a few that I read that were of the "normal" type (read: superheroes), most of which came from DC or Marvel grab bags I picked up at my LCS because dammit if I can't resist the lure of a randomly selected bag …
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Sword of Sorcery #1
I'm going to close out my #FantasyComicsMonth comics with this one, a book that DC Comics published in 1973 and which bears one of the names of the genre. It's not an "origin of the genre" comic, especially because sword and sorcery books have been around for quite a long time, but I do think …
Marvel Preview #22
I'd say that if it's not the discount trades shelves that are the foul temptress of my LCS, it's the magazine longboxes. That's where I've been finding a lot of the old-school Marvel Graphic Novels as well as old 'Nam Magazine, and this particular book. Marvel Preview, to my knowledge, was a catch-all series that …
The Raven Banner: A Tale of Asgard (Marvel Graphic Novel #15)
With #FantasyComicsMonth being this month, I held on to a number of things, one of which was this graphic novel, which was written by Alan Zelenetz and illustrated by Charles Vess. Being "A Tale of Asgard," it is set in the world of the Thor comics but does not feature Thor; in fact, he has …
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JLA: Riddle of the Beast
Elseworlds books were fascinating to me when they first appeared in the early 1990s, and while I didn't get all of them (mostly because the $4.95 price tag was a bit too much at the time), I got my hands on a fair share, especially a number of the Batman ones (of which there were …
Robin Hood (Eclipse Comics) #1-3
I probably should confess that the definitive Robin Hood story for me involves a fox and a singing rooster. Sorry, but the 1970s Disney movie remains my all-time favorite Disney cartoon, and even though I've seen the Kevin Costner Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (because I think we were all required to see that at …
The Uncollecting 