Having become known as something of a Silver-Age expert, I occasionally receive questions on the subject in my e-mail. Sometimes these e-mails raise a topic of interest that is worth mentioning in my Deck Log, such as this one from a total stranger . . . .

Dear Commander Benson,

It goes without saying that you write the cleverest, wittiest, most fascinating column on…

28 DAYS LATER TP VOL 01 LONDON CALLING…

Green Arrow!

That’s the big news on the DCU side of things, as DC twangs off a double-shot of the Emerald Archer. The first part of the current “Brightest Day” storyline (Green Arrow Vol. 5) is available for free, and the first three parts of Kevin Smith’s “Quiver” storyline arrive, getting a free opening chapter (listed as Green Arrow, Vol. 3.) Ollie’s relationship with the…

ACTION COMICS #892…

Hi all.

Short entry this time, for a couple of reasons. For one, I’m packing up for a long weekend at a music festival, and don’t have much time (no time for pictures either, alas). For another, Comixology seems very tied up

with the sale it’s running today, and there really aren’t any new expansions of

the lines… it’s all continuations.…

While having Murray Boltinoff and Bruno Premiani appear in the pages of The Doom Patrol # 121 came as a bit of a surprise, their announcement that the title was on the ropes probably wasn’t a shocker. At least not for the veteran fans of “the World’s Strangest Heroes”. They had sensed it coming.

Like so many DC series in 1968, The Doom Patrol had moved away from many of the elements which had characterised it in the…

1 FOR DOLLAR HELLBOY SEED OF DESTRUCTION

1 FOR DOLLAR USAGI YOJIMBO

AGE OF HEROES #4 (OF 4)

AIR #24 (MR)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #636 2ND PTG VAR (PP #929)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #637 2ND PTG VAR (PP #929)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #640

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN…

A veteran fan reading the banner “Is This the Beginning of the End of the Doom Patrol!” on the cover of The Doom Patrol # 121 (Sep.-Oct., 1968) would have probably written it off as hype, a come-on to entice him into buying the comic.

But once he opened it to the splash page, he would have known that something genuinely unprecedented was going on. Instead of the usual action-packed scene of Our Heroes…

First of all, apologies for the late column. I thought I might have a chance to write something up during vacation, but events got away from me. Well, events and sweet-tea flavored vodka.

I did get a chance to take a look at the releases as they appeared however, and noticed what looked like, to me, errors in the release schedule. One – no Vertigo books were in the initial list – was rectified with a few additions the…

large number of retreads in the new…