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 →
The Age of Apocalypse and the Power of Comics
A couple of weeks ago Chris and Reggie released their 100th episode of the Cosmic Treadmill podcast. The topic was the Marvel event - Age of Apocalypse. After listening to the first episode I hardly remembered the story in the comic. I talked to my brother about it and he had a completely different experience... Continue Reading →
Boston Fan Expo 2018
I went to the Boston Fan Expo over the weekend, Sunday August 12th, and had a really great time. Over the previous couple of years I thought this convention had really gone down hill, with last year being the least enjoyable of the now six or seven times that I’ve been able to go. Last... Continue Reading →
Issue 50
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 →
Summer Reading – The Micronauts
The Micronauts - They Came from Inner Space A couple of months ago I picked up a complete run of The Micronauts Volume 1 from Marvel comics. I decided that it might be fun to challenge myself this summer and read one issue a day for the entire summer and get through the fifty-nine issue... Continue Reading →
This Week at Comics Comics Comics – End of June 2018
For the last couple of weeks I have been reading more than I have been writing so shame on me. On the other hand, I have read some really great comics. I’ve been all over the place between new comics, trade paperbacks, and dollar bin finds. Let’s get right to it. Doctor Star and the... Continue Reading →