This week, my Retro Review covers Nexus # 2 & 3 from Capitol Comics. Issue # 2 is dated June 1982 and is printed in a larger magazine size (7 & 3/4 by 10 & 3/4), as are issues # 1 & 3. Each of the original three issues, a mini-series, are printed in this larger…
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…
I am going to get this right out in the open, I hate 3D movies. I think that they are a gimmick that at best, dresses up a weak movie, (as is the case for Avatar,) and at worst, unnecessarily raises the ticket price on a bad movie so that the studio might be able…
Cover dated November 1968, and featuring a nice Joe Kubert cover, came The Atom and Hawkman # 39, sub-titled; The Titan and the Fury! Previously there had been an Atom comic book and also a Hawkman comic book, but suddenly they were merged into one book, continuing the numbering of the Atom series. Obviously these…
I love to pick up cheap trades at Cons, and at the recent C2E2 show I grabbed the second “X-Men vs. Apocalype” trade. This trade reprints the the “Twelve” story from the late 90’s early 2000’s, (I am too lazy to go look for the exact dates,) and while it isn’t a good store, it…
Today for your comic book collecting habit, I submit to you, DC Comics’ Metal Men # 45, cover dated May 1976. The original Silver Age Metal Men series ended with issue # 41, cover dated January 1970. Three years passed and then three reprint issues appeared (#s 42 through 44), then another three years pass and Metal Men # 45…
I read all the time about the death of the comic book. This argument takes many different forms. Some say that with the dawn of the digital age, that it is only a matter of if, and not when comics go away. Others argue that if the price on books continues to go up, comic…
As promised, here I am to write about the second part of the DC/Marvel crossover begun in DC’s Aquaman # 56. That story was cover dated April 1971, and the second and final part of the story took place in Marvel’s Sub-Mariner # 72, cover dated September 1974. Yep, it took three years to finally complete. The writer,…
This week I’d like to offer up the final issue of DC’s Aquaman, # 56, cover dated April 1971. The story is entitled; “The Creature That Devoured Detroit!” and it is written by Steve Skeates and beautifully drawn by Jim Aparo. The story begins with a “normal joe” coming home and turning on the television to watch Johnny Carson on The…