Up-Dates...
Mar. 28, 2013: Haven't been updating much lately -- obviously. Still, added reviews of the new "Superman vs. Shazam" TPB, plus "Cerebus: Church & State, vol. 1", and an oldy..."Dazzler, The Movie". PLUS...added a couple new/old quotes to my "Great Comic Book Quotables" page. And, in general, have been re-reading old TPBs and, bit by bit, modifying reviews where warranted (I generally note on my reviews how many times I've read a book).
Nov. 7: Added reviews of "Daredevil by Mark Waid" vol. 1, "Alpha Flight: The Complete Series by Pak and VAn Lente", and "Essential Captain Ameruca, vol. 1" and modified a few reviews of Star Wars movie adaptations TPBs.
Sept. 19: Added my review of "Green Lantern: Rebirth" (there was originally a link to it on another site); modified my review of the Green Lantern arc I dubbed "The Fight for Ferris Air Saga" in my They Ain't TPBs section. PLUS...a review of the text novel, The Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann, in my Comic Book Novels section (haven't posted something new there in ages!)
Aug. 23: No new TPB reviews today -- but added some reviews to my "They Ain't TPBs..." section, including a Challengers of the Unknown run, a Justice League arc, and (yet another!) Green Lantern arc ("Power War"). PLUS...added some new entries to my Great Single Issues section.
July 19: Added reviews of the complete "The Twelve" saga; "The Losers: Trifecta", and "Magnus: Steel Nation". Plus, various older reviews I had posted on another website, with links here. But those links seem to be dead, so I'm in the process of simply re-posting those reviews here. So far "added" reviews include: "Omega the Unknown Classic", "Buffy: Stake Though the Heart", "Flight, vol. 1", "The Drowned", "Criminal Macabre", "Stickleback" and probably a couple more, plus revised a couple of older reviews. More re-posted reviews to come...
May 10: Added reviews of "Superman: Birthright", "The Best of the Spirit", the alternate Marvel Universe story "Bullet Points" and the literary "The Silence of Our Friends", plus some older TPBs including "Vampirella: Transcending Time & Space", "Wolverine/Nick Fury: The Scorpio Connection", "Harbinger: Children of the Eighth Day". PLUS...on my mini-series section: "Batman: The Ankh" and "DC Retroactive".
Mar. 8, 2012: Added reviews of: "Giant-Size MarveL", "Vampirella: Blood Lust", "Welcome to Tranquility", "Cerebus" (vol. 1), "Plastic Man - 80 Pg Giant", "Silencers" (the re-issue of the 1990s spy series), "Ruse: The Victorian Guide to Murder", "Project Superpowers: Chapter Two", and a couple of Hawkman books (Archives, vo. 1, and "Rise of the Golden Eagle")
January, 11, 2012: Added reviews of "Superman vs. Muhammad Ali", "Avengers Forver", and various Batman TPBs ("King Tut's Tomb", "...in the Sixties", and "The Dailies, vol. 1"), plus, to my They Ain't TPBs section, a review of the first Batman/Killer Croc/origin of Jason Todd saga.
November 10 (2011): Added reviews of the much anticipated "New Teen Titans: Games", and "Flashpoint", as well as "The Evolutionary War Omnibus", "Concrete: The Human Dilemma", and "Uncanny X-Men: First Class - Feared and Hated", plus a bunch of Fantastic Four collections, including "The Overthrow of Doom", "Foes", "The Lost Adventures", plus the first two "Marvel Masterworks" FF collections.
Sept. 23: added reviews of "Showcase presents the Trial of the Flash", "Steel Claw: The Vanishing Man", "Essential Dazzler, vol. 1", and an oldy: "Kelly Green: One, Two, Three...Die!",
Aug. 24: added reviews of "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes", "Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin Maker" (both volumes), and some oldies: "Conan the Reaver" and "Kelly Green: The Go-Between"
July 9: Added reviews of "Son of Superman", "Untold Tales of the New Universe", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Oz" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Last Gleaming" (the final arc in "season eight"). PLUS...added a Captain America story arc and two Thor stories to my "They Ain't TPBs...but should be!" section.
June 1: Added reviews of "Captain America vs. The Red Skull", "Thor: Ragnarok", "District X: Mr. M", and "New Warriors Classic, vol. 2" -- all surprisingly recent releases! Go figure. Plus a review of "Superman: Last Family of Krypton" to my mini-series section.
April 20: Added a review of the historical graphic novel, "The Sky Over the Louvre".
April 7, 2011: Addeded reviews of "Spider-Man vs. The Black Cat", "The Origin of Generation X", "Ms. Marvel: Operation Lightning Storm", "Thor: If Asgard Should Perish", and "Marvel Knights 4: Divine Time" (to the Fantastic Four section).
Feb. 17, 2011: Added reviews of "Vengeance of Moon Knight: Shock and Awe", "New Warriors Classic, vol. 1", "Savage Sword of Conan, vol. 6", "Women of Marvel", "Wolverine Classic. vol. 2", "Sin City: Hell and Back", "New Mutants: Back to School" and assorted Hellboy TPBs (in a new Hellboy section). PLUS...did a re-write to my review of "Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye", considering it in light of the new TV series. Anything else?...probably, but that's the gist.
November 28: Added reviews of "Batman in the Seventies", "Mavel Visionaries: Stan Lee", "Jonah Hex: Welcome to Paradise", the Wildstorm "X-Files" collection, and a few Buffy TPBs, both new ("Twilight") and some older, pre-season eight books ("Haunting", "The Blood of Carthage"). And probably a few others! PLUS...added to my "They Ain't TPBs" section, entries on The Master Planner Saga (Spider-Man), Bat-Murderer (Batman) and the Gerry Conway/Don Newton 1970s New Gods run.
Aug. 22: Added reviews of "Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Blackhawk & The Return of the Scarlet Ghost", the hardcover "Death of Captain Marvel" collection, "Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe, vol. 3", "Static Shock: Trial by Fire", the old "Detectives, Inc" graphic novel, a couple of the "Bone" volumes...plus did some minor rewrites on some older reviews (including Daredevil: Typhoid Maty, and others).
Aug. 10: Minor up-date -- added some entries to my "Best" single issue comics section, and an entry on Star-Lord in my They Ain't TPBs section (the "honourable mentions" category). In my main review section, I just did a few minor re-writes on some old reviews of books I recently re-read...but nothing that radically altered the intent of the initial review.
June 28: Added reviews of "The Avengers: The Contest" & "The Avengers" The Korvac Saga"; "The Legion of Super-Heroes: A Eye for a Eye"; "Jack Staff: Everything Used to be Black and White"; as well as modifying and rewriting a few older reviews (notably "X-Men: Inferno", but also some others). PLUS...to my "They Ain't TPBs..." section, added entries/reviews of a "classic" Teen Titans trilogy and a Man-Thing two-parter.
May 5: Added reviews of -- "Albion Origins" and "The Spider: King of Crooks" to Miscellaneous Non-Superhero section; "Essential Savage She-Hulk" and "The Last Days of Animal Man" to Miscellaneous Super Hero section; "Batman International" (to Batman section), "Spider-Man: A New Goblin" (to Spider-Man section) and "Captain Britain and MI 13: Vampire State" (to Captain Britain section) -- all pretty new books! Of course, since I've revamped the main list page, I suppose I don't have to specify what section the review is in, since it's all just alphabetized! Anyhoo... ALSO... added a review of "Patsy Walker: Hellcat" to my mini-series section. PLUS... to my "They Ain't TPBs" section, added pieces on three "great" storylines -- albeit, shorter, two parters, including a Superman, a Master of Kung Fu, and a Power Man & Iron Fist. I think that's everything for today.
Apr. 30: Added some new lines to my "Great Comic Book Quotes" page.
Mar. 28: Added reviews of the brand-spanking-new "Iron Man: The End" (to Iron Man section); two Buffy the Vampire Slayer TPBs -- "Predators and Prey" & "Retreat" (to Buffy section); "Essential Avengers, 7" (to Avengers section), and the not quite as recent "Captain Britain: A Hero Reborn" (to Captain Britain section), and the even less recent "JLA: A League of One" (to JLA section) and "Star Wars: Infinities - Return of the Jedi" AND the second of the old Star Wars: Marvel Illustrated Books -- World of Fire (to Star Wars section). PLUS...revamped my main list page, hopefully making it more user friendly.
Feb. 24: Wow, two up-dates in one month -- I must be trying to clean out my inventory of back-logged reviews. And, a disproportionate number are British, or involve British characters, all in honour of British Comics Week...okay, I made that up. Really, it's just a coincidence. Anyway, in a U.K. theme we have reviews of "Albion", and two "Dan Dare" collections -- the recent Garth Ennis series, and the "classic" Marooned on Mercury, all in the Miscellaneous Non-Superhero section; "Clandestine Classic" and "Union Jack: London Falling" in the Miscellaneous Super-Hero section; and Captain Britain has now been moved to his own section, complete with a new review of the 1989 TPB collection (and, by inference, the Omnibus collection). PLUS...getting away from a British theme, reviews of the classic "Blazing Combat" collection, in Miscellaneous Non-Superhero; "Fantastic Four: In Search of Galactus" in the Fantastic Four section; "Spider-Man: Election Day" in the Spider-Man section. PLUS (part ii)...in my mini-series section, reviews of "Marvel Selects: Fantastic Four" and "Ex Machina Special". And that's all...though I've got to redesign my list page to make it more convenient (it's just so long, it has exceeded the 30+ KB that I think can make it started reading wonky on some computers).
Feb, 2, 2010: Added reviews of (big breath)..."Avengers: The Serpent Crown" (Avengers section), "Batman: Batgirl" (Batman section), "Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds" (Legion of Super-Heroes section), "Wonder Woman: Ends of the Earth" (Wonder Woman section), "Colossus: God's Country" (X-Men section), "New Mutants: Return of Legion", "Timely 70th Anniversary Collection", "The Umbrella Academy" -- Apocalypse Suite and Dallas -- (all Miscellaneous Super Hero section), "Nexus: As it Happened" -- same as Nexus Archives, vol. 1 --, "Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood", "Devil Dinosaur Omnibus", "Ex Machina" -- Tag and Fact v. Fiction -- (all Miscellaneous Non-Superhero section). PLUS..."Northguard: The ManDes Conclusion" to my Mini-Series section. Anything else? Yeah, probably, but that's most of them.
Dec. 17: Added new entries to both my "They Ain't TPBs...but should be" section, as well as my "Greatest (Single) Issue" stories (which is found linked on the same page).
Nov. 19: Added reviews of "Death Defying 'Devil" and "Squadron Supreme: The Pre-War Years" to my Miscellaneous Super Hero section; "The Hunger Dogs" to my Jack Kirby's Fourth World section; "Thor: Ages of Thunder" to my Thor section -- so, some pretty current reviews with an oldy (The Hunger Dogs). PLUS...to my mini-series section added reviews of "Jemm, Son of Saturn" and the recent "X-Men vs. Agents of Atlas".
October 22: Added reviews of "Justice League Elite, vol. 1" and "JLA: Zatanna's Search" to my JLA section; "Challengers of the Unknown Must Die!", "Guardians of the Galaxy: The Power of Starhawk", and "Zot: The Complete B&W Collection" to Miscellaneous Non-Superhero section; "Crossover Classics: The Marvel/DC Collection, vol.1" and "Union Jack" to Super Hero section. PLUS...added (another) Green Lantern arc to my "They Ain't TPBs" section.
September 2009: Main news is simply that I'm moving the site to this URL! It's still in process, so not all the links and pages are up yet. Secondary up-date news is that, along the way, I've added a bunch of new reviews that weren't on the old site...but I'm kind of losing track of what they were!!! Still, there are lots of new reviews of Graphic Novels/TPBs (Batman: Lovers and Madmen, Green Lantern: Secret Origin, Peter Parker, Spider-Man: One Small Break, Essential Thor, vol. 4 -- and many more), plus mini-series (JSA: Strange Adventures, Martian Manhunter: American Secrets, and others), as well as new entries in my "They Ain't TPBs...but should be" section, and some new quotes to my Great Comic Book Quotables page. Welp...back to work.