by | Oct 24, 2023 | Articles, Back Issue to the Future, Managers
♫ Regrets I’ve had a few but then again too few to mention ♪ Regret. A fundamental human emotion that cripples some or drives others forward to new action. Whether it is a question of our education or careers, family, or friends we’ve lost touch with, lost...
by | Aug 4, 2021 | Articles, Events, Managers
Enter the House of Slaughter: I would expect this to easily be everyone’s top pick come FCBD. Following up their monster hit Something is Killing the Children, James Tynion IV and Werther Dell-Edera venture further into the history of Erica Slaughter, the...
by | Jul 28, 2021 | Articles, Back Issue to the Future, Managers
Commentary by Dan W. When did The Joker become a ruthless, humorless psychopath? Not to say he wasn’t always a murderous clown, but rather that there may have been some winking charm in past eras of giant typewriters and poison fish. Was it The Killing Joke, is this...
by | Jun 16, 2021 | Articles, Managers
It was the summer of 2017, and I had just gotten back into comics thanks to Gerard Way’s fantastic DC’s Young Animals. I had just taken a trip to the Chicago area Graham Crackers, and with a little extra help from my friendly neighborhood Normal store, I was able to...
by | Jun 8, 2021 | Articles, Managers
New Years Eve was not the same, nor was past New Years Day, We all were weird, even air was feared, still life goes on they say. Some comic fans were left adrift, their clubhouse suddenly scary, Silence fell amongst the books, where once the feeling, merry. A...
by | May 26, 2021 | Articles, Managers
Today’s people, looking at the tiny comic strips as printed in newspapers now, might find it hard to understand the tremendous popularity of comic strips circa 1900. Remember that this was before television, before radio, even before movies. In the day when there were...