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"Every year for Independence Day I read something patriotic. Usually it's one Captain America story or another, but this year, inspired in part by Alex Ross and Jim Krueger's Project Superpowers, I've decided to read IDW's Super Patriotic Heroes…"
"Cockrum's Legion and Futurians and (one issue of) X-Men led me to read the two-issue Starjammers series for the first time ever. I must have been in one of my "cutback phases" in 1990 when X-Men Spotlight On... Starjammers was released, because I…"
"I finally got around to reading Gotham City: Year One, another Tom King miniseries that plays with characters, placing them on the edge of continuity. Here, it posits how the city turned from a paradise to a crime-ridden dump, throiugh a…"
"Jack Kirby's Starr Warriors Starring Adam Starr and the Solar Legion (2023) is a faithful adaptation of Jack Kirby's work from Crash Comics #1-3, when he was just 22 years old, "remixed" by Tom Scioli. (If you want to see the original version,…"
"Kirby: Genesis led me back to Jack Kirby's Secret City Saga by Roy Thomas and Steve Ditko (plus Walt Simonson, #0), a much more "traditional" comic book reading experience than Kirby Genesis is. It's too bad the short-lived Topps Comics didn't…"
"KIRBY GENESIS:
I recently read Dynamite's Project Superpowers and discovered (as I suspected all along) that it "reads" better in a "satisfying chunk" than it does in monthly installments. With that observation in mind, I decided to revisit another…"
I recently read Dynamite's Project Superpowers and discovered (as I suspected all along) that it "reads" better in a "satisfying chunk" than it does in monthly installments. With that observation in mind, I decided to revisit another…"
"I recently finished reading the Cockrum/Grell era of the LSH through Archives v11, then skipped ahead a bit to the Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes TE HC (2022). By the time DC released All-New Collectors' Edition C-55 in 1978, I had long…"
"Dave Cockrum's The Futurians (see above) and John Byrne's Elsewhen put me in the mood to read some Cockrum/Byrne X-Men, so todat I read #107-108."
"San Pueblo translates as Saint Town."
"Besides the inexpensive EC Archives series, I've been getting and enjoying the Clover Press DICK TRACY collections that contain an entire calendar year in each volume. Of course, the drawback is that the story doesn't end on December 31st so one has…"
"THE FUTURIANS (v2):
The Futurians, the story of eight extraordinary humans with super-powers gained by way of genetic namipulation from the future, began as Marvel Graphic Novel #9. The graphic novel went to three printings and a series was called…"
The Futurians, the story of eight extraordinary humans with super-powers gained by way of genetic namipulation from the future, began as Marvel Graphic Novel #9. The graphic novel went to three printings and a series was called…"
"Clearly."
"Gladys Kravitz no longer lived there by the 1970s, since that house belongs to the Partridge Family by their first episode. Except that the Partridges lived in San Pueblo, CA, so that doesn't quite work. So maybe she did live there, and we're…"
"I have long known that the Claremont/Byrne run of X-Men borrowed heavily from Dark Shadows (Phoenix, Sebastian Shaw, time slips) and The Avengers (the Hellfire Club), but, as many times as I have read the "Dark Phownix" saga, I only just realized…"
"In advance of the highly-anticipated (by me) release of the first volume of X-Men: Elsewhen tomorrow, I decided to "read up to it" from Angel's POV: Hulk Annual #7 into X-Men #132-137.
It has been about six and a half years since I last read this…"
It has been about six and a half years since I last read this…"
"It's been two years. I figure it's time to re-read Miracleman: "The Silver Age" (for the first time in a single sitting). This time I started with Eclipse's 1988 Miracleman Family, which leads off with "How Dicky Dauntless Became Young Miracleman,"…"
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They're good fun. I think I'm scratching the itch I had as a kid when I couldn't afford those big lumps of colourful plastic that looked so cool in the ads.
Actually I'm downloading them as I just know I'm going to visit that site some day and see that they've been taken down...
If you happen to find out the creative credits for the different episodes and their publishing dates I'd be grateful for the info. I couldn't find them anywhere.
Here's a birthday present for you.
http://www.geocities.com/cheezelordmaxwell/UKcomics.html
Good luck finding the pertinent bits!