I’m back, after a week off, to attend a family funeral out of state in Kentucky. I hope you didn’t miss me too much! This week I’m writing about a more obscure offering, Caliber Comics’s Baker Street # 1, from March 1989. Caliber Comics was formed by Michigan book store owner, Gary Reed, during the late…
I’ve written about this many times before, but for those who don’t know: it was The Avengers that got me into reading comic books. I dug it for the same reason that many fans did: the group was essentially Marvel’s All-Star team. While members came and went, the nucleus of Thor, Iron Man, and Captain…
This week, we’re looking at DC Comics’ Doom Patrol # 121, cover dated October 1968. It features a nice graveyard scene cover by Joe Orlando, showing tombstones of Elasti-Girl, Negative Man and Robotman. It also asks the question; Is this the beginning of the end of the Doom Patrol? You Decide! That just reaches out and grabs you, doesn’t…
Hope you don’t mind me stealing your tagline, Greg, but here is my old review of the second Scott Pilgrim graphic novel from about five years ago. This review originally appeared in Comics Buyer’s Guide sometime in late ’05 or early ’06. I gave this 3 stars out of 4, per CBG’s grading system. Scott Pilgrim…
Sandman #2, what can I say. This is very much a continuation of the story form issue one, and it works hard to answer some of the questions that the reader had from that issue, but in a lot of ways it is just a lot of set up, and is pretty boring. Now the stuff…
Cover dated August 1974, Marvel comics published: Giant-Size Man-Thing # 1. How did they ever get that title by the Comics Code? Marvel had been publishing the Man-Thing in Adventure Into Fear beginiing in 1972 and he had grduated to his own title in 1974. Then in 1974 and 1975 Marvel Comics published a large number…
“Read Siege #4 before you read this issue!” There, now that wasn’t so hard, was it, Marvel? And no, readers, you don’t need to read Siege #4 before you read this column. I only open with that line, because that kind of warning is all too rare nowadays, in an era where title-spanning event stories are…
First Comics published the comic book; Grimjack # 1, with a cover date of August 1984. The character was co-created by writter John Ostrander and artist Timothy Truman. The character first appeared as a back up feature in the comic book; Starslayer. This comic book was first published by Pacific Comics (issues # 1 – 6) and then…
I need to confess, I love serialized fiction in whatever form I can get it, (hell, I am watching General Hospital as I write this,) and in this age of collected editions, I wonder sometimes if the experience of reading a series episodically, with pauses between each issue doesn’t change the reading process. For a…
Another Silver Age comic this week from DC Comics, it’s House of Secrets # 66, cover dated June 1964. This comic features on the cover, for the first time. the villain, Eclipso! And that cover is provided by the team of Dick Dillin on pencils and Sheldon Moldoffon on inks! Eclipso had originally made his initial appearance here in House…