My very first "Batman" comic (and my fourth overall) was Detective Comics #381. My second Batman comic (and my eighth overall) was #388. Both of these were drawn by the art team of Bob Brown and Joe Giella. #381 was written by Frank Robbins, and #388
I have a question about cataloguing comics and would like your opinions.
When one publisher uses the same series name more than once, volume numbers are easy. What about when multiple publishers use a series title over time? There are ot
I didn't buy this Eclipse series when it first came out in 1984. Several years ago, however, I saw the entire series except for issue #1 for sale at Half Price Books. (That's pretty common at HPB. Either selle
This thread led me to think about all of the various movies I've seen over the years which revolved around "World War Three" happening and the aftermath thereof. While I've seen more than seven, seven is the number that I have currently available on
Captain's Log: I'm rethinking this weekly post, since there's an actual need for listing small publishers. I haven't been doing that since Diamond's Previews list folded, but now I guess I ought to. I thought about it too long this week, and don't ha
I'll never forget the first Batman comic strip by Marshall Rogers.
Marshall Rogers' version is "movie adjacent." Batman is new to Gotham City. He has recently defeated the Joker, but the Joker survived. Rogers introduces a new threat: the Catwoman. He
I started reading comic strips (or having them read to me) at roughly the same time I started reading comic books. But in my youngest years, I was more familiar with comic strips (with the "Sunday funnies" coming into our house at the rate of once a
It just occured to me that there might be some utility in having a thread where we post what cons we're going to (and other assorted nerdery) to see if anyone wants to meet up for a while, and see each other in person! (gasp!)
I just finished reading all of For Better or For Worse, one of three family-oriented continuity strips that occur in more-or-less "real time" that I've been reading for most of my life (the other two being Doonesbury and Funky Winkerbean). But the gr
My to-read piles — the Towers of Shame, known collectively as the Wall of Shame — have gotten so uncontrollable that I'm making a dedicated effort to clear out as much as I can. One self-disciplinary move is to read whatever's on top, regardless if t
WIth Jeff of Earth-J's warning that small-press publishers are going to be harder to follow I'll try to include more small-press here each week. That doesn't help with ordering, but it might help Legionnaires avoid missing books they might miss. If t
With everyone else dipping their toes into the water--and given that lately it seems I'm more snarky than appreciative of comics--I thought I'd dip my own toes into the water with a reading project. So I'll be covering Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck.
I wasn’t a big fan of Man-Thing when I was a kid, but I did try to collect nearly every series I had the opportunity to if I could start with #1. Consequently I ended up with Giant-Size Man-Thing #1-5. Also along the way I ended up with the book & re
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #13 ($4.99) is by Joe Kelly and Pepe Larazz. If I'm reading the PR correctly, the twice-monthly Amazing Spider-Man will split its focus, with one issue per month focusing on Home Spidey, and the
I’ve never been happy about what the Crisis on Infinite Earths did to DC continuity, believing that it did away with many characters and concepts that still had a lot of untapped potential. I’ll admit to being especially unhappy about the removal of
What I've got is the new releases with the enhanced special effects - I'll comment on these as best I can, shame I haven't got the originals to compare and contrast, but such is life. I put up the "spoiler" just on the off chance that there's someone
At the end of Randy Jackson's "Walt Simonson's Thor" discussion last year, I posted: "I'm waffling between "Dan Jurgens' Thor" and "Walt Simonson's Ragnarok." I've finally made up my mind. Before I get to it, though, I would like to re-read Dark Hors
