Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we here at Back to the Past stop and smell the roses AKA nerd out on the cool stuff we deal with day in and day out. This week, we’re looking at two CGC graded comics that recently passed through out doors: Spawn #174-175, the first and…
So a quick question; when is a RETRO REVIEW not a retro review? The answer; when it’s a current review! I hope that made sense. Rather than a third new Fabulous Find in a row, I’m back with a new RETRO REVIEW, but not really! Say What? What I want to talk/write about this week is…
Boy Howdy! It’s time for a new RETRO REVIEW and this week I’ve visited the independent section of the comic book vault and brought up Mage # 1, of if you prefer, Mage The Hero Discovered # 1, cover dated May, 1984 published by Comico. Comico may have published this comic, but’s it’s the Matt…
So we meet again. This week’s RETRO REVIEW features an independent comic book from Dancing Elephant Press. The comic is Jack Staff # 1 and it is cover dated April 2000. The comic was created, written and drawn by writer/artist Paul Grist. Or as it says on the interior of the front cover; Paul “The…
And we’re back ….. with another new RETRO REVIEW. This week it’s time for an independent comic book, so I’ve extracted from the vault the first three issues of Strangers In Paradise. These first issues were published by Antarctic Press. The first is cover dated; November 1993, the second; December 1993 and the third; February…
And now for something completely different, a RETRO REVIEW discussing a comic book that is only from 1999! What’s that mean? Have I ran out of older comic books to talk about? No, not at all, I simply came across this series of comics while searching for something else and remembered it fondly, so even…
Since Friday falls on Christmas Day this year, I thought I’d offer up something a little different from my usual RETRO REVIEW and Fabulous Find columns. So simply, I thought I’d share some Holiday art from my favorite comic book publisher, Marvel Comics. First up is a panel from a Spider-Man book by Ross Andru:…
This week it’s time for a new RETRO REVIEW, therefore I’ve pulled out one of my favorite, though short lived independent comic book series, Leave It To Chance, from Homage & Image Comics. And for the purposes of the review, I’ve selected Leave It To Chance # 5, cover dated May 1997. This is most recent RETRO…
Greetings fellow comic fans! And happy Friday the thirteenth! This week I’ve unearthed a more recent comic book for my RETRO REVIEW column. It’s from Image Comics, released under their short-lived Cliffhanger banner … Battle Chasers # 1, cover dated April 1998! This first issue features a very nice wrap-a-round cover by creator Joe Madureira (or…
I Will Tell You #83: Top 5 Greatest Suckiest Comics Ever My mother, and just about everyone else’s, has said many times if you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all. And obviously, since I’ve been called a critic, I must not have listened. But the truth is, I learned, you can…