Doc’s Reviews for the Week of 05/03/2022
While the rest of the reviewers get the week off to focus on the Free Comic Book Day Comics available this weekend, I get my choice of books to review! But the big event this week that gathered all my attention is, of course … ALTER EGO #175 TWOMORROWS PUBLISHING Alter Ego magazine … Read more My Top 5 Gimmick Covers of the 90’s By Nick Lipe
I grew up in the 90’s, the heyday of gimmick covers, and I was in heaven. Being 8 years old in 91, I was the prime target for all the crazy covers that the companies were sending out by the dozen: holograms, chromiums, die cut, acetate, polybag, glow in the dark, etc. I was a … Read more Doc’s Reviews for the Week of 4/27/2022
JUSTICE LEAGUE #75 DC COMICS It’s hard not to have spoilers when they’ve been advertised for months and are plastered across the d*mn cover. And while overwhelming media coverage and the fact that this is yet another case of “The Next Big Thing to Start off the NEXT, NEXT Big Thing” , I will … Read more FCBD Survival/Preparedness Guide by John Elle
It’s that long awaited (and now back to its regularly scheduled bat day and time) of the year. It’s kinda like Christmas…or maybe Easter. It’s FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! Now back to its regular day the First Saturday of May (May 7th this year). How it works: Simply stop in at any of our stores … Read more Doc’s Reviews For The Week of 4/20/2022
BATMAN/SUPERMAN WORLD’S FINEST #2 DC COMICS I guess we need to thank DC Comics for leaving this title the h, e, double hockey sticks alone. No continuity, no cross promoting epic storylines, just good clean old school fun! And thankfully, Mark Waid proves time and time again that he not only understands the characters … Read more Back Issue to the Future: Flash #8 by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins
Commentary by Sean H. Cast your minds back, dear reader, to the not-too-distant past. Specifically, 2010, when coming hot off the heels of Blackest Night and Brightest Day, Geoff Johns returned to Flash to pen a new era in the character’s history. Or at least, he would have… If DC hadn’t then decided to relaunch … Read more Doc’s Reviews the Week of 04/13/2022 Most Talked About BookBREAKOUT #1 DARK HORSE COMICS So this week, the big news is Breakout #1 from Dark Horse. Let just see if this is worth all the ballyhoo, shall we? And let’s start with Jason Wordie’s colors. Why start with the colors? To be honest, the colors play a big part in the visual appeal … Read more The Real Never-Ending Battle by Shawn Spurlock
The first Wednesday in June of 1982, the boxes came. Maybe it was even one box, I wasn’t there. I suppose I could’ve asked Jamie, but the actual number doesn’t matter, really. What matters is that it started with a cardboard box that had to be sliced open. Two years after the first comic sold … Read more Mike Trying to Teach the Youngins By Mike Wall
I got an email on Monday asking where my blog entry was. After some swearing, I realized I did not check the Google calendar. I started something about the speculator market and how it is affecting the market. Well that started to become very dark and cynical. Not what you usually look for when I … Read more Doc’s Reviews for the Week of April 6, 2022
PROJECT SUPERPOWERS FRACTURED STATES #1 DYNAMITE An energetic start but missing the usually huge cast of heroes we’ve grown accustom to seeing from the Project Superpowers series. We do get the death of the Flag but after that we get directly into the story. With Ron Marz and Andy Lanning’s dystopian future of 2052, … Read more |
