Doc’s Reviews for the Week of 9/07/2021
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 Jake’s Gag Bag #4 (Invincible #10)
It’s been awhile since we’ve had a new edition of Jake’s Gag Bag! Graham Crackers Comics’ exclusive humor blog series! For those that are new, I like to take a specific moment from a comic series that made laugh out loud, and then proceeded to live in my head rent free ever since. This time … Read more A Journey Through My Life of Comics by N. LipeI’ve been reading and collecting comics a long time. It doesn’t feel like it, but 30 years have gone by in a flash! I started collecting and reading for real when I was about 9 years old in 1991. What a time to be reading comics! I was mainly reading what I call the core … Read more Doc’s Reviews For The Week of 09/01/2021
BATMAN SUPERMAN 2021 ANNUAL DC COMICS One last look at the amazing worlds created by writer Gene Luen Yang and artist Paul Pelletier with help from inker Mick Grey and everyone’s favorite colorist Hi-Fi! Inspired by one of the most annoying yet interesting gimmicks in comics, this year’s annual is a flipbook and contains … Read more Birth of a collector by Earl G.
My sister and I found our first comic on a bus, and we were off and running. We did get some new comics, but often raided the corner stores that had comics for a nickel. I got Flash #11 and #112 there, as well as Strange Tales with Fin Fan Foom and Amazing Adventures with … Read more Doc’s Reviews For the Week of 8/25/2021
ROBOTIC STOOGES #2 AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY Who would have through that a cute little bit of cartoon nostalgia from 1978 would still be making us laugh today. Predating Inspector Gadget, these 3 lovable knuckleheads have been knocking each other senseless with their malfunctioning robotic parts for over 40 years. And pay close attention as brother … Read more Heroes Wear Masks, AgainHeroes Wear Masks, Again, or ‘How I Learned To Love At Least Not Making Things Worse’ As told to Kevin Healy by Beauregard J. Sanderson III on this day the fifth of August, 2021. He was old. Too old. He looked like a wrinkled peach, left in a dehydrator two weeks too long. A peach, … Read more Doc’s Reviews For The Week Of 8/18/2021
KANG THE CONQUEROR #1 MARVEL COMICS Take your pick but ever since his first appearance (Fantastic Four #19 in October of 1963 or Avengers #8 in September of 1964) this master manipulator of all things time has proven time and time again (bet on a lot of time puns here!) to be an Omega … Read more It’s All About the #3 FCBD 2021
Like Schoolhouse Rock taught us all those years ago, 3 is a magic number! And is really is, you see three monthes ago we would have been celebrating Free Comic Book Day in May. And although Covid didn’t allow that to happen, 3 monthes later here we are getting ready to raid our local Graham … Read more Doc’s Reviews For The Week Of 08/11/2021
THE DEFENDERS #1 MARVEL COMICS Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez take their turn at the eternal anti-group, the Defenders. There is very little that is new here. A new threat brought to light by a surprize visitor to the home of Doctor Strange. The Tarot of the Secret Flame from the pages of previous … Read more |
