by Doc Schaefer | Dec 13, 2023 | Docs Corner, Reviews
GRIMM FAIRY TALES HOLIDAY PINUP SPECIAL 2023 Time for Zenescope to chose their best good girl artists and spread some cheer with some holiday themed pinups. Oh, and the short story too. A brief story of that holiday when Frau Perchta, the Belly Slitter was loose and...
by Doc Schaefer | Dec 6, 2023 | Docs Corner, Reviews
ADVENTURE COMICS #260 FACSIMILE EDITION I really wonder if people like Otto Binder, Lee Elias, and Ramona Fradon had any idea the full and rich history they were creating for DC Comics. Titles like Adventure spotlighted so many, but in early 1959 the title was...
by Doc Schaefer | Nov 29, 2023 | Docs Corner, Reviews
DOOM PATROL #99 DC COMICS While I want to complain about the fact that the Big Two keep reaching back into the past to keep releasing these facsimile editions because 80% of their new titles just cannot connect with a large audience, I keep my mouth shut because...
by Doc Schaefer | Nov 22, 2023 | Docs Corner, Reviews
HACK/SLASH BACK TO SCHOOL #2 IMAGE COMICS Zoe Thorogood’s take on Hack/Slash is both gruesome and interesting. From the dreams of the chainsaw wielding former B-movie actress to the weird cut’em in half vertically Frogboy killer, there is a lot of good...
by Doc Schaefer | Nov 15, 2023 | Docs Corner, Reviews
OUTSIDERS #1 DC COMICS Annoying! That’s what this new DC title is … annoying. You know why? Because in 1999, on the very edge of the new century, Warren Ellis and John Cassaday debuted a new Wildstorm title called Planetary and I was immediately...
by Doc Schaefer | Nov 8, 2023 | Docs Corner, Reviews
SHAZAM! #5 DC COMICS Mark Waid’s story continues to bounce between insanity and the realism of the human condition. Mercury gets his turn at controlling the Captain (and I thought calling him Shazam back in the 1970’s sounded goofy.) but he’s...
