I'll be attending the Baltimore Comic-Con tomorrow, just like I have been every year for the past five or six years, and while I'm doing some of my usual con prep of getting my signing list together (much smaller than last year because we're spending less time there), I have also been thinking of how …
Continue reading The CON-undrum Part One: Planning to Get More When You Need to Own Less
After two six-issue storylines, we get a one-and-done story where Helena Bertinelli is dealing with the fallout from everything that she has been through with her family, the mob, the serial killer, and the mob. It's presented at the very beginning as her being pulled in two different directions and literally being torn apart in …
My experience with The Huntress as a character begins with the end of her first version; specifically, her death in Crisis on Infinite Earths. As a result, I never had much of an attachment to Helena Wayne and when when I first encountered Helena Bertinelli in a Detective Comics two-parter in the fall of 1992, …
So here's one that I had been familiar with but had never read because the cover image was used on one of the introduction pages of The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told. It's also one that, if I had owned it back in the day, I would have definitely held onto because even though there's …
Humor comics can be hard to pull off. Okay, they can actually be pretty easy to pull off if you're looking to make a quick sale and have some cheap laughs. But if you want it to stay funny well beyond its publication, that's a bit tougher. I think Ambush Bug, probably more than any …
A slight cheat here because I have read Adventures of Superman #424 multiple times--in fact, I bought my original copy off the stands back in 1987. But in the 30+ years since the book's publication, I had not read #425 (or #426--my collection had always gone 424, 427, 428, and then a few random ones …
