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Godzilla vs. Boston - This was OK, but not overwhelming.
The Ultimates #14 - I keep thinking that I'll drop this book, but I keep following it. We meet the new Ultimate Wanda and Pietro. No sign yet as to ehether they're as incestuous as the old Ultimate versions were.
NEW COMICS I HAVE READ TODAY THIS MONTH:
OLD COMICS I AM CURRENTLY READING: Ka-Zar the Savage (1981) and Silver Surfer (1987). The Ka-Zar series ran 34 issues, and the "Return to the Spaceways" omnibus reprints the first 33 of Silver Surfer. I started them at the same time and am keeping the same pace with both, reading first one, then the other.
AROC OF ZENITH: Episode #167
By the Light of the SIlvery Moon Knight: Now that I have finished the Ka-Zar the Savage and Return to the Spaceways omnibusses, it's time to move on to my next projects: Moon Knight (1980) and Silver Surfer (2014).
Detective Comics #627, whose cover misuses the word "Anniversary" in the way that is so annoying to a certain individual.
Why, whomever do you mean? ;)
In this case, the misuse of the word "anniversary" is leavened by the clarification concerning Batman's 600th appearance.
Actually, hold the phone, but if #27 was his first appearance - and assuming that he appeared in every issuie since then - wouldn't #627 be his 601st appearance?
That is absolutely correct, but I did specifically use the term "leavened" (something that modifies or lightens). That shows me they were at least trying to do math.
Ironically, DC got it right for his 500th appearance (#526, 1983):
As I posted to "A Cover a Day" on March 2, 2024 (page 2368 of that thread): "Issue #526 is Batman's 500th appearance in Detective Comics (although hardly his 500th "anniversary"). It is interesting to note that DC comics got it right in1983, but got it wrong in 1991 (Detective Comics #627, posted yesterday), which incorrectly identified that issue as his 600th appearance, when it was, in fact, his 601st."
They do better with actual anniversaries:
Well, ya can't win 'em all, and two outta three ain't bad.
TARZAN, Vol. 4 (1934-35):
The Waoiris bring Tarzan to their tribe as a white god but there is already a "white god" in command there who seeks no company. He orders the tribe to detain Tarzan for his own devious purposes. Sybyll Stoneley crshes her plane, bringing her own brand of trouble. Later, the two meet Thorik, descended from a group of lost Vikings.
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE - THE COMPLETE LIBRARY, Vol. 9 (2006-2008):
Those last five (and a half) volumes took a bit longer to read than I expected, but now I'm finished. I really had no idea how much of the story I missed initially following those last eight years via Sundays only. Toward the end, Lynn Johnston began doing all-new "flashbacks" to the early years drawn in her earlier style. I had remembered this change being a "knife-edge cut" but it wasn't. Once she brought the story of the present-day family to a close (with a look to the future), she did go back to the beginning, integrating new strips with reprints. after a year or so, the strip revetted to all reprints, which still run today. the last quarter or so of volume nine contains just the new strips, so as not to duplicate those in volume one. To read the new strips integrated with the old, see Something Old, Something New.
And, yes, I already have a replacement strip collection waiting in the wings.
Back in 1973, Marvel Comics published a reader survey. The one question I remember best is "How many times do you refer to or reread your copy of this comic?" and the choices were "0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 or more." For me, at that time, my answer was definitely "8 or more." My mother persecuted me for my love of comic books for most of my life (she finally gave up after I graduated college), so I kept my my comics at my grandmother's house, in her collinet. Back then my entire collection fit into a cubby not much large than a cubic foot, so yes, I read my comics multiple times. (I even went though a brief period, my freshman year in college, during which I'd read each comic twice before moving on to the next.) But the more comics I own, the less likely I am to reread comics (newer ones)... and I own a lot of comics. But today, just for today perhaps, I'm gong to reread two recent comics that are just that good.
SUPERMAN TREASURY EDITION 2025 ...from just last month, and...
THE AVENGERS IN THE VERACITY TRAP ...from earlier this week.
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