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 my first and only exposure to Atwood until I read this comic. Dark Horse Comics... Continue Reading →
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 September. I’ve never read an issue of this particular volume of the Stranger, so why... Continue Reading →
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 previous to this comic. While The Amazing Spider-man #96 - 98 and Green Lantern #85-86... Continue Reading →
The Monsters are Coming! ‘Tis the Halloween season. It is time for stories of ghosts, ghouls, and things that go bump in the night. I picked up this issue of Beware over the weekend at the Baltimore Comic Con (hopefully more on that in another post). Beware is an anthology comic and, at least in... Continue Reading →
Batman and The Flash each reached issue number fifty recently and I wanted to write about what I thought about each. One comic was exciting and riveting and one was not. One comic had a great build up and the other did. Let’s get to it, shall we? Batman #45 - 50, Prelude to the... Continue Reading →
I’ve got to admit that I’ve got a crush on Elvira. I think that Cassandra Peterson’s alter ego is funny, pretty, and very entertaining. How she dresses as the character doesn’t hurt either. Over the last couple of years I’ve come across a couple of issues of this comic (this one twice as it turns... Continue Reading →
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