by Doc Schaefer | Sep 14, 2022 | Docs Corner, Reviews
MIDNIGHT SUNS #1 MARVEL COMICS Having grown up on Gary Friedrich and Mike Ploog’s Monster of Frankenstein, Gerry Conway and Mike Ploog’s Werewolf By Night, and of course all the talented names associated with Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula series,...
by | Sep 13, 2022 | Articles
Nostalgia is one heck of a drug, especially when it comes to comics. Everyone wants to pay tribute to the classics, and a big way this is done in comics is with homage covers. An homage cover is a comic cover that either copies directly or references another, more...
by | Sep 7, 2022 | Articles
There are essentially two types of people driving vehicles in your average parking lot. There are S.H.I.E.L.D. people and there are Hydra people. This is also true of the many customers that venture through the door on any given day. Comic shop customers generally...
by Doc Schaefer | Sep 7, 2022 | Docs Corner, Reviews
DARK CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #4 DC COMICS After the moral abomination that was issue #3, I was surprized when this was in my pile for reviews. But after the initial thumb through, it had enough to peak my interest. Many of the plot points here are nothing new....
by Doc Schaefer | Aug 31, 2022 | Docs Corner, Reviews
DC’s SAVED BY THE BELLE REVE #1 DC COMICS While I give DC credit for continuing to come up with reasons to have these 80 page specials, They always seemed to be a mixed batch. With 8 tales of school high-jinx throughout the DC Universe, not all of the...
by | Aug 30, 2022 | Articles
If you’re like me and you’ve been into all things fantasy, science fiction, and super hero related things your whole life, then chances are you’ve probably been the nerdy one in your relationships. Majority of my relationships have been with people who had little to...
by Doc Schaefer | Aug 24, 2022 | Docs Corner, Reviews
DC MECH #2 DC COMICS And just like that, the Justice Society is gone (and no old Hawkgirl’s appearance here does not count! She’s only there to make the team more Justice League Unlimited cartoon based.) And what we are left with is exactly what I had...
by | Aug 23, 2022 | Articles
Disclaimer: I didn’t come up with that underhanded yet super clever title. I heard Stray Dogs writer Tony Fleecs say it on a podcast, but it’s true! Indie publisher Aftershock has been putting out some unique titles the past year or so that deserve recognition,...
by | Aug 17, 2022 | Articles
Comics are just funny books for kids, right? That’s what Congress was told in the 1950’s. They were so convinced that comics were a kids medium that a whole system was put in place to protect those kids from subjects that might seem to lascivious and tantalizing,...
by Doc Schaefer | Aug 17, 2022 | Docs Corner, Reviews
BATMAN SUPERMAN WORLD’S FINEST #6 DC COMICS Mark Waid continues to prove that he is the master of real dialog even in a one issue story like this. And the fact that we don’t seem to be concerned with time travel consequences, works out here. Due to the...
