I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. When I was teenager, I tiresomely informed others about the validity … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
Back in the pop art era when mighty Marvel mags manifested as the proudly powerful pinnacle of the scintillation sequential literature settled onto spinner racks across the nation, the sterling storytellers passionate proclivity for yahoo-inducing yarns was only matched by … Continue reading Mighty Marvel Checklist HyperboleCheck: Thor #192
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. Much as I would have loved to be one of those … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Micronauts by Bill Mantlo and Butch Guice
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I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. As Marvel Comics announces their next major crossover event, because the … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars by Jim Shooter and Mike Zeck
Can anyone doubt that the early nineteen-seventies was truly the Mighty Age of Marvel Comics? The publisher surely didn’t, taking every opening as an opportunity to feed the faithful with profound praise for the titanic tales and colorful clashes wonderfully … Continue reading Mighty Marvel Checklist HyperboleCheck: Fantastic Four #132
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. When I was in college, I knew a guy who insisted that his copy of Super-Villain Team-Up #12 was the only comic book he needed. The reason? It featured Dr. Doom and Red Skull fighting on the moon, and once you had that, how could anything else even compare? One of my favorite things about superhero comic books in the nineteen-seventies–especially those titles that emanated from the House of Ideas known … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Marvel Premiere by David Kraft and George Perez
“I come to my journal as a Catholick to a confessor. My bruises insist these extraordinary past five hours were not a sickbed vision conjured by my Ailment, but real events. I shall describe what befell me this day, steering as close to the facts as possible.” –David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, 2004 “HE STRIDES INTO THE THREATENING DARKNESS…AND NEITHER THE DARKNESS NOR THE CHAOS THAT IT CAUSES KEEPS HIM FROM THIS MIDNIGHT STALKING! THE FIRST FULL MOON OF WINTER PRESIDES OVER THE CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION. FIRECRACKERS SHATTER THE DARKNESS, EXORCISING THE EVIL SPIRITS OF THE PAST YEAR. AND YET, … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
When last we left the Mighty Marvel Checklist Hyperbole Check, the scintillating surprises of Captain America #131 had been illuminated and explicated. Still, there remained a clamorous cliffhanger as the star-spangled Avenger was trying to determine if the impish impostor … Continue reading Mighty Marvel Checklist HyperboleCheck: Captain America #132
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. One of my favorite comic book artists when I was in … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Nexus by Mike Baron and Steve Rude
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