With the success of The 'Nam in 1986, Marvel had a popular war comic that wasn't a licensed product tie-in for the first time in ... well, probably since Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos saw its last battle. And much like any other time you've got a successful property, there was a need to …
Back into the ‘nam for #WarComicsMonth
When it comes to war comics, I'm partial to ones that have stories featuring the Vietnam War, and that should be a shock to no one since I did a podcast that covered The 'Nam. But with the exception of old issues of that Marvel book, I don't often come across Vietnam stories in the …
A War Comics Grab Bag #WarComicsMonth
So in the small stack of war comics that I've collected since last November, I have some books that I guess you'd consider the more "classic" type of war comics: books that center mostly around World War II and were published in either the Silver Age or Bronze Age by one of the major comic …
My first War Comics? #WarComicsMonth
So, I started my #WarComicsMonth reading with G.I. Joe #55 and #59. And that begs the question: how do you review two comics that you've read multiple times but happened to randomly get in a grab bag? Moreover, how do you review two comic books that have always been two of the most important in …
Our Artists At War
It's #WarComicsMonth and I have a stack of books that I've been saving since last year that I'll be working my way through and hopefully remembering to review on this site (you know how these things go). They are from various eras and ages of comics as well as companies, ranging from Sgt. Fury and …
Adventures of Superman #500 and The Return of Superman 30th Anniversary Special
It's odd to write a "review" of a comic book that you read and owned 30 years ago, but I wound up with a polybagged edition of The Adventures of Superman #500 in a DC Comics grab bag that I bought at my LCS sometime last year and while I already have the story in …
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Uncollecting Update October 2023
Physical Comics Read: 12 (49/267)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (3/16)Books Read: 4 (108/126)Movies Watched: 1 (165/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (55/58)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (99/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 196 October is always its own kind of hell. Smet people reading this want to know what I'm talking about while others know exactly what I …
Classics Illustrated: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hamlet and The Scarlet Letter
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 …
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Legends of Tomorrow #1-6
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 …
HorrorComicsMonth: DC vs. EC
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 …
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