Category Archives: Featured comic

The Nuclear Family and The Outsiders

Posted on April 20, 2020 by

I was born in the early seventies and grew up in the eighties during the end of the Cold War. During that time the possibility of nuclear holocaust felt like an ever-present danger. I did not practice duck and cover … Continue reading →

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Christmas with Archie

Posted on December 25, 2019 by

The Christmas season a wonderful time of year that I enjoy more and more as I grow older. I like the hustle and bustle of shopping with my wife as we search for gifts for the family. We decorate the … Continue reading →

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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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