What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – April 2019
I’m still, shockingly, keeping up with monthly reviews, so let’s get to it!
Category: Comics
Finding Elseworlds on the small screen
The Elseworlds (or ‘imaginary story’) concept is a tried and tested formula in comics, but it also exists in other media, although nobody calls it that. In particular, it has frequently appeared in (mainly American) serial television productions since the 1960s at least.
Indie Spotlight: Preheat
Last year I went to the Supanova convention in Melbourne, where I found someone I knew helping to man a booth in their equivalent of artists alley. While I was …
That other time Archie had a ‘new look’
Almost a decade before the current upgraded ‘new look’ Archie was launched in 2015, Archie Comics took a more limited swing at the idea of giving the venerable Riverdale gang a new look – but with less apparent success.
What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – March 2019
Yes, I know it’s April, but lots of comics came out in March, so let’s check some of them out!
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 …
Earth One, where comic books are just like ours, only different
Roy Thomas transformed Earth-One’s comic books without even trying. Or probably even thinking about it. Up until Thomas wrote All-Star Squadron, it was canon that Earth-One in the 1940s had …