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 the first Alpha Flight series was released, there was no … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Alpha Flight by John Byrne
Though I had full intentions of sharing images from our trip to New Orleans in this space, a technical shortcoming has thwarted that plan. Instead, I’ll just briefly acknowledge that, due to our return trip to the Crescent City, I … Continue reading My memory is muddy, what’s this river that I’m in?
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. Besides the comics that I selected for myself in my youthful years, I always had access to a few stray issues that came into my possession by mysterious means. Comic books were purchased a little more freely in the nineteen-seventies. They were available practically everywhere and were somewhat likely to be picked up as impulse buys by teenagers and college students just looking for a four-color distraction. I never found a … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Giant-Size Avengers #3 by Steve Englehart, Roy Thomas and Dave Cockrum
(Though it wasn’t intended for such a purpose, I could never come up with a better image to encapsulate the thoughts I’m trying to express below. I must give due credit to the illustrator.) After all the trailers unspooled at … Continue reading I nearly didn’t recognize you, then my heart unwound
Marvel Comics had a wondrous way with with words back when they courageously and correctly claimed that they were the House of Ideas. That vivid vocabulary was on full display amidst the four-color fisticuffs that filled their folios, but it … Continue reading Mighty Marvel Checklist HyberboleCheck: Thor #183
“‘No, I am not a man who harbors romantic ideas about the extension of the spirit. It’s something I’d like to think I taught my sons, to partake of the physical world while it is yours to take, because that is one meaning of life with which no one can argue. To taste, to touch, to breathe in, to eat and stuff yourself–all the rest, all that takes place in the heart and mind lives in the shadow of uncertainty. But the lesson didn’t come easily to you, and you never accepted it in the end. You shot yourself in … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
Good gravy. Really? (Due credit: I found this elsewhere.) Continue reading I’m just looking for a faith waiting to be followed
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. Almost from the moment I started reading superhero comics, I was … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Godzilla by Doug Moench and Herb Trimpe
I have a decidedly busy week at work, which is severely compromising my ability to write new original content for my little corner of the digital world. In an effort to make sure that there’s something here today (but not … Continue reading Every other day is like a kick in the shin, every other day is like the day just wins
And here I thought the gun ads that turned up routinely in old comic books were troubling. I wish it had “COMES WITH REAL PLUTONIUM!” somewhere on there. Continue reading She rides a submarine, she rides a time machine, she rides upon a dream
Coffee for Two 