I looked at the beginning of the post-Crisis Batman in Detective Comics when I read the Dark Knight Detective trade that collected Mike W. Barr's run on the book (although I believe Joey Cavalieri wrote that first post-Crisis 'Tec issue), and here I am looking at the very first post-Crisis issue of Batman. Now, I …
Arak, Son of Thunder #1-10, 30
While my last review, about Arion: Lord of Atlantis #1, was a sword and sorcery book that I found underwhelming, I didn't have the same issue here with Roy Thomas' Arak: Son of Thunder, which was a similar type of book. With art by Ernie Colon and a number of different inkers (including Tony DeZuniga, …
Arion: Lord of Atlantis #1
Here's one that was bought purely for the cover; moreover, purely because I used to see the cover in a Joe Kubert School ad (Hi Rob!) in the early 1990s and always thought it was totally badass. The comic? Not as much. I was familiar with Arion because of his appearance in the early parts …
Uncollecting Update: February 2019
As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 1 (153/155) Books Read: 5 (130/139) Comics Read: 25 (663/738) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 155 Movies While I did get to the theater to see The Lego Movie 2, I didn't watch much of anything this month except for my blu-ray of Star …
Marvel Fanfare #59
This is my last issue of Marvel Fanfare and the second to last of the series. It's also the last of a Shanna four-parter that was written by Steve Gerber. Chapters 1-3 had been written back in the late 1970s and featured art by Bret Blevins and this part was drawn by Tony DeZuniga. The …
Marvel Fanfare #39
I think this was the second or third Marvel Fanfare issue I bought and the reason I grabbed it was because it had Joe Staton art. I'm not familiar with Staton doing any Marvel characters--everything I have seen from him was for DC. The main story is a Hawkeye solo adventure where he ... has …
Marvel Fanfare #38
There are two stories in this one. In the first, Moon Knight has to rescue some missing children and another has Rogue and Dazzler taking down some thugs who interrupt a nightclub show. Both of these stories have to do with rock/pop singers, and both have creative teams that are primarily made of women. Jo …
Marvel Fanfare #28
While the Marvel mutants of the Eighties and Early Nineties are one of the few corners of the Marvel Universe where I've got experience, the Canadian team of Alpha Flight is yet another one of my many blind spots. I own the first issue and it's on my "to read" for this blog, but beyond …
Marvel Fanfare #20
Jim Starlin kicks off a multi-part storyline that stars The Thing and Dr. Strange by having Ben Grimm--who has just returned from exile after Secret Wars--get transported to another dimension where Strange is being held captive. He fights the demons that have imprisoned Dr. Strange and frees him only to be faced with a face-off …
Marvel Fanfare #19
So after Captain America, we get Cloak and Dagger, a duo that I have little to know knowledge of or experience with outside of what I read in OHOTMU. I do have a faint memory of seeing an issue of their comic in a stationary store when I was a kid and noticing that it …
The Uncollecting 