Archive for August, 2006

Super-Team Family #6

August 25, 2006, 8:43 pm

In a fit of nostalgia, I picked up a few of old mid-1970s comics, including Super-Team Family #6, which reprinted some older team oriented stories. In this issue, we get a Superman/Batman/Robin story, with the Composite Superman, from World’s Finest #168; and the last Marvel Family story for a long time, from Marvel Family #89. [...]

Last Comic in the Pile, August 23rd, Final

August 24, 2006, 11:15 pm

Okay, time for the final rankings. As predicted, it was a pretty good week. Red means that the comic was worse than I had predicted, green means it was better, and grey means that it was just as I expected. Not any real surprises, though.

9. Supergirl #9

Wow, this was bad and pointless. I was willing [...]

Last Comic in the Pile, August 23rd

August 22, 2006, 10:03 am

Just a quick glance and wow, this is going to be a good week. As usual, here are my sight-unseen ratings of the comics I’ll be buying this week from what I think will be the worst to the best. Then, late Wednesday or Thursday, find out what comic becomes the true Last Comic in [...]

Blog Roll V: The Final Frontier

August 20, 2006, 7:08 pm

Time for another five blogs from my blog roll and why I enjoy them.

DC Conspiracy
Though I first visited this blog, I thought it would be about DC Comics: instead, I found a really interesting blog from Washington, DC comic creators. I love seeing the art and reading about their adventures. And some of them visited [...]

City of Heroes: The Carnival With Guns

August 17, 2006, 8:20 pm

I don’t think I’ve mentioned that I play City of Heroes now and again. Every once in a while, something in the game amuses me. Today, it was logging in to find that the mystical Carnival, a villain group in the game that harnesses magic as a weapon, seems to have changed tactics a bit.

This [...]