When Arkham Asylum was comedy gold: The Joker, Clown Prince of Crime
Until I reread the 1975-6 The Joker series (now collected in the Joker: Clown Prince of Crime TPB) I’d forgotten that Arkham Asylum was once a fun place to be …
Category: Comics Reviews
What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – February 2019
February doesn’t end until I review the trade paperbacks I bought during the month, so let’s take a look!
Superman: Electric Boogaloo
Superman is the archetypal superhero, the one character who laid the foundation for the decades of characters and stories that were to follow. He is a character that fights for …
What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – January 2019
Hey, it’s lots of reviews. Let’s not dawdle!
Review time! with ‘Kismet, Man of Fate’
Let’s take a look at Kismet, which stars the first Muslim superhero!
A product of its time, but not in a bad way: Skull the Slayer
Usually “a product of time” identifies books (or people) with unsavory qualities such as the antisemitism and racism in H. Rider Haggard’s The People of the Mist. While Skull the …
Review time! with ‘McCay’
McCay is a bizarre comic that stars the great cartoonist, but not in any way you might expect!