Welcome back! This week it’s time to delve into the independent boxes again and see what we can pull out. From Eclipse Comics, it’s Aztec Ace # 7, cover dated October 1984. It features a beautiful cover by Dan Day and Tom Yeates. The story is entitled: “Murdicide” and it was written by Doug Moench, with…
I’m going to go back a little farther into my collection for this retro review. Way back to Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four # 16, cover dated July 1963. This issue is entitled “The Micro-World Of Doctor Doom!” and features a special guest star; the amazing Ant-Man! It’s written by Stan “the Man” Lee and penciled by Jack…
I remember when I started regularly reading comics at age 14, I knew that I potentially faced some resistance to the idea. After all, back then at least, most kids read comics at a younger age, and in most cases had given them up before their teen years. And many adults felt that comics weren’t…
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…