Saturday, June 25, 2011

Tales of the Jackalope #1-#6 (Blackthorne, 1986)


I used to love this quirky little funny animal book back in the day. It was published during the height of the "Black and White" independent comics boom of the mid 80s...

Friday, April 22, 2011

ROM Spaceknight- The Complete Series, Part One (Marvel)



Here's issues #1 through #10 of everyone's favorite Spaceknight, ROM....






Sunday, April 10, 2011

Plan 9 From Outer Space (Malibu Comics, 1990)

I've been a fan of the works of Edward D. Wood since I was a kid, so here's a comic adaptation from 1990... Download Link

Saturday, March 12, 2011

The 'Nam (Complete Series, Marvel 1986-1993)


Viet Nam wasn’t the sort of place where heroes like G.I. Joe or Sgt. Rock would ever have fit in. It was different in the ’Nam: hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys, or even which side you were playing on.

Marvel’s The ’Nam is a war comic for that very different war. Always maintaining a strong sense of story, it nevertheless paints the entire conflict in murky shades of gray, where “good guys” don’t always win, and the real losers are often those who weren’t doing the fighting.

Although Frank Castle (who would later become the Punisher) has been known to make an appearance from time to time, The ’Nam is no place for super-heroes. Well-plotted and compelling, this series has enjoyed long success in an era where other war comics don’t seem to sell.

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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Cosmic Heroes (Eternity Comics, 1988)


A nice little collection of early Buck Rogers strips....

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Paul Dini's Jingle Belle - Santa Claus vs Frankenstein (Image Comics, 2008)

I love Christmas, Santa Claus, and Frankenstein. Plus, Paul Dini's Jingle Belle is good stuff...so,...bonus. A book tailored specifically for the Me demographic.

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Sunday, December 5, 2010

Vault of Horror #35 (Feb.-Mar. 1954)




Here's a classic E.C. Christmas themed horror story that's been adapted for the screen not once, but twice (the first time for the 1972 Amicus anthology film TALES FROM THE CRYPT, starring Joan Collins, and again for the second episode of the HBO series of the same name)..

Merry Christmas, kids...









Sunday, November 28, 2010

The Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #22 (DC Comics, 1982)



Here we are for yet another Christmas Countdown, and to start things off this year, I present to you The Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #22 , which features a favorite of mine, "The Seal Men's War on Santa Claus!"...
In the final Fleischer-Kirby-created adventure (intended for The Sandman vol. 1 #7 but published in The Best of DC #22) he even assists the legendary Santa Claus against a menacing band of Seal Men who are angry about being sent the wrong gifts during the previous Christmas

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Ambush Bug (DC Comics,1984)


I'm a long-time fan of the works of Keith Giffen, and his AMBUSH BUG stuff (along with collaborator Robert Loren Fleming) is absolutely hilarious.....

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Freddy Krueger's A Nightmare on Elm Street #1-#2 (1989 Marvel Magazine)





I remember there being a big stink about this mag when it was being published...I picked up the first issue off the newsstand, and it took me years to track down the second issue....

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation (Marvel, 2005)




Not only is this book written by Garth Ennis, but it has mind-blowing art by Clayton Crain...




Monday, October 18, 2010

Bram Stoker's DRACULA (Topps Comics, 1992)



Quite possibly one of the best comic book adaptations of a film ever done, IMO. Mignola's work on this is nothing short of awesome..

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Sabrina, The Teenage Witch #58 (Archie Comics, August 2004)




I don't know why, because I'm not a manga reader, but the Tania Del Rio run of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch has always kinda intrigued me. I've always meant to track down the run and give it a read out of curiousity's sake, and finally have. I think the thing that fascinates me the most about it is that it's pretty much the prototype for some of the stuff that Archie Comics is experimenting with these days (i.e., a change-up to the Dan DeCarlo driven "house style", continuity influenced story arcs, etc.,)...


From Wikipedia:




In 2004, beginning with issue #58 (in the second Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic book series), the comics were taken over by Tania del Rio with her manga-inspired art and design style. The comics were then released featuring new characters and a slightly more serious, continuity-heavy plot. The manga Sabrina story wrapped up at issue #100 in 2009, albeit with a few unresolved subplots. Only one manga-sized trade paperback was released during the series' run, reprinting issues #58-61.

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Comic Book Collecting And History (VHSRip, 1989)







Here's another VHS I've picked up at some time, somewhere, over the last two decades that I have no clue where it came from. If yer into Gary Owens, the artwork of Steve Rude, and a comic shop owner that was typical of the type in the late 1980s, this is your lucky day!






Saturday, September 25, 2010

Todd McFarlane's Comic Book Facts and Illusions (VHSRip 1992)






I purchased this VHS at some point around 1992 or '93 from my hometown Wal-Mart. After going back and viewing while I was making the transfer, and came to the conclusion that you....yes, you!...will BELIEVE that a guy who sounds like and acts about as smart as Bill Murray in Caddyshack can make a million bucks drawing funnybooks....

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Dakota North Investigations (Marvel Comics, 1986)

I loved this quirky little book during it's publication (way back in '86 to '87....man, am I showing my age), and am glad to see the character getting some on-panel time in the current run of Daredevil...


Sunday, August 29, 2010

Gary Gianni's The MonsterMen (1999, Dark Horse Comics)



For decades, the skull of the world's most dangerous necromancer has been guarded in a secret Tibetan monastery. Now the whereabouts of the skull have been discovered by creatures who would use it to awaken its former owner. Now Benedict, boneweary after five centuries of battling for the Order of Corpus Monstrum, heads into the Himalayas to take possession of the skull, but not before confronting the monstrous Yeti, while St. George, millionaire film mogul, falls off the side of a mountain. Eisner Award winner Gary Gianni (Batman Black & White, Solomon Kane) breaks out of the pages of Hellboy with his bizarre adventure team in their first feature presentation. Mike Mignola provides a backup: "Goodbye Mister Tod," in which Hellboy battles a horrible thing that's coming out of a guy's mouth.

I remember really digging this book (and it's cast of characters, which I first discovered via the back-up published in various Hellboy projects), and had hoped Gianni would follow up on it, but I believe he hasn't. It's a shame, too..

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