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 issue of The Falcon was released in 1983, … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — The Falcon by Jim Owsley, Paul Smith, and Mark Bright

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 a kid, it’s possible that the only thing … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Marvel Age

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. There have been several previous instances when I enthused about What … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — What If? #35 by Frank Miller

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. In the late nineteen-eighties, John Byrne came back to Marvel. A … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — West Coast Avengers by John Byrne

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. Marvel’s man without fear, the costumed do-gooder known as Daredevil, went … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Daredevil #203 by Steven Grant and Geof Isherwood

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. I don’t think I can convey how jarring it was when … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — The New Mutants by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz

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 first started obsessively hunting down comic books with the … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Iron Man by Denny O’Neil and Luke McDonnell

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 a wise crab once noted, “The human world, it’s a … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — The Sub-Mariner #25 by Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema

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 a puffed-up, opinionated kid, I was a purist … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Gotham Academy by Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher, and Karl Kerschl

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. I bought Watchmen, the limited series written by Alan Moore and … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons