Docs Corner

DOCTOR WHO EMPIRE OF THE WOLF #1     TITAN COMICS Bit of a misnaming here as this is most assuredly a Rose Tyler story with a guest appearance by the Doctor. Not saying that’s bad, just making sure that Rose Tyler fans get the heads up. A multidimensional mystery with eerie visions with a bit … Read more

VAN HELSING RETURN OF THE LEAGUE OF MONSTERS #1     ZENESCOPE I’m just a sucker for anything featuring a League of Monsters. Whether it was Captain Marvel’s Monster Society of Evil from 1943 or the 1976 Marvel Legion of Monsters or even 1974’s Monster League of Evil from Superman #276, put a bunch of classic … Read more

THE FLASH #775     DC COMICS With writer Jeremy Adams at the helm, another classic character reaches a milestone! And boy what he’s given us to work with. An army of random super-villains including Rogues Gallery members Pied Piper, Trickster, and Rainbow Raider! A mysterious spear from the sky that even Superman has a Thor’s … Read more

     So welcome to Doc’s Corner’s first ever Turn Back Time Tuesday! Sometimes we all need to just settle back and get away from the choatic world of today. Sure, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #102 comes out tomorrow and ends an epic run for a toy based comic this week. And Batman … Read more

WONDER WOMAN 80TH ANNIVERSARY      DC COMICS Another 100 Page Super Spectacular and another group of snippets featuring our favorite Amazon. And with such classic Wonder Woman collaborators as Steve Orlando, Mark Waid, Amy Reeder, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, and Evan “Doc” Shaner in the mix, you know this is a worth the read. While … Read more

BATMAN SUPERMAN #22     DC COMICS How I pity the poor creative team who have to come up with the next issue after Gene Luen Yang and Ivan Reis’s epic story arc! But amazingly, Yang along with new penciller Paul Pelletier pull off this mind blowing little one-shot. Yes, that’s right, I said one shot. … Read more

BATMAN #113     DC COMICS Finally, Batman is starting to return to some semblence of order. With the world of Gotham completely off the deep end, the Batman returns and starts to throw down as he should. While we do delve into some unrealistic territory (a prototype electrical telepathy devise – really?), Simon Saint’s hopelessly … Read more

     In the early 1990’s, Captain America had taken a turn storywise, into new more human condition themes. Characters like Diamondback and D-Man had started to provide Cap with a more family oriented future. And while the stories were interesting and in some cases tear jerking, they didn’t seem all that popular. During this … Read more

BATMAN & SCOOBY-DOO! MYSTERIES #6     DC COMICS This whole review is one big SPOILER alert! But more importantly, it is proof that my generation had the best of all worlds! Just when you didn’t think that writer Sholly Fisch (which I stll believe is an anagram for something) could find a different set of … Read more

KA-ZAR, LORD OF THE SAVAGE LAND #1     MARVEL COMICS Welcome to Comics 101, I’m your instructor Doc Schaefer and today we’ll be looking at what a mess the character of Ka-zar has become. Ka-Zar the Great (his first official title) first appeared at Marvel in Marvel Comics #1 in 1939. He was a wonderful … Read more