Category Archives: Featured comic

Go-Bots

Posted on March 1, 2019 by

Every day we are asked to pick a side, Liberal or Conservative, Instagram or Twitter, Coke or Pepsi. You get the idea. Back in the mid-eighties, we had to pick our favorite transforming robots, Transformers or Go-Bots. Transformers were big, … Continue reading →

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The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories

Posted on December 24, 2018 by

The earliest Christmas comic I can recall reading was in the Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book comics. It was the Carl Barks story “Letter to Santa” featuring Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck. Over the years I’ve read plenty of good Christmas … Continue reading →

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Warbears #1

Posted on December 13, 2018 by

A long time ago I took a literature course in college where we read and studied novels about dystopian societies. We read ‘Brave New World’, ‘1984’, ‘We’, and several other novels including “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood. That was … Continue reading →

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Phantom Stranger 41

Posted on November 29, 2018 by

Phantom Stranger #41 This piece is dedicated to Chris from Chris and Reggie’s Cosmic Treadmill podcast. Their recent episodes discussing Action comics weekly have inspired me to write about this issue, which I picked up at the Baltimore Comic-con in … Continue reading →

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Ragman #4

Posted on October 12, 2018 by

The Dream Killers It was the late seventies and the Comics Code Authority had been relaxed quite a bit. Wolfmen and Vampires were back and so were more adult themes. Spider-Man and Green Arrow had significant anti-drug messages several years … Continue reading →

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