I recently completed a discussion of 13 volumes of Marvel Masterworks - Daredevil over in the "What Comics Have You Read Today?" thread. While I'm waiting for the 14th, I thought I'd skip ahead to Frank Miller's celebrated run. I didn't start read Da
A while back, I logged some week-to-week posts on DC’s digital reprint program through Comixology. It’s been a while, and their digital offerings have matured, so I thought I’d take another look at what they’re adding each week. Currently, they seem
The excellent reviews of the Silver-Age Adam Strange stories by our pal, Jeff of Earth-J, over on the resurrected Figserello thread, was a different experience for me from most review threads of this type. In every other instance, at least when it c
JLA: Incarnations is a seven-issue series. I like them all, but #1 is the only one I have read multiple times. It is representative of the kind of post-Crisis continuity I generally have to hold in my head. The DCU has changed multiple times over the
Parasocial Alex de Campi, writer; Scott Henderson, artist Image Comics, 2023
A story straight out of Stephen King's novel Misery, but this time the protagonist is a fading genre-TV actor instead of a novelist. The graphic novel begins at a comics co
After much grousing in the “Reviews” section about not knowing A) what all PS Artbooks had published, and B) how much of them I have, I have finally assembled a comprehensive list. Here are some highlights, as of this writing
In Adventure Comics # 350 (Nov., 1966), a cloud of green-kryptonite particles drifts down from outer space, engulfing the stratosphere of the Earth, A.D. 2966. The varied abilities of the Legion of Super-Heroes prove futile in removing or destroying
I'm thinking of reading a few Adam Strange comics from over the years, but I'd like to know what was the best representative story in which he appeared in the 70s?
I know he didn't star in his own stories in the 70s, but perhaps a JLA/JSA crossover,
It's supposed to start after midnight here...maybe a couple of inches. Huzzah! It's cocoa and Sky Captain night at the Beechler-Simpson home!
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My association with Starman goes back to 1974. I remember reading both “The Case of the Camera Curse!” (Adventure Comics #66) and “The Menace of the Invisible Raiders” (#67, first appearance of Starman’s arch-villain The Mist) reprinted in two of th