I met Kurt Busiek at Emerald City Comic Con 2010. With me were copies of Avengers #1, Superman #650 and #654, all of which he autographed. I had already fallen in love with both of the aforementioned runs, and had also read his modern classic Marvels (which admittedly was more for the Alex Ross art …
Continue reading Superman by Kurt Busiek Vol.1- A Few Thoughts
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6ogjVERTl8/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet I used to LOVE Brian Cronin’s comic book lists at CBR. Every few months we had a new list of rankings voted on by the fans about artists, writers, storylines, runs, etc. It was great fun, and I remember voting in many of them. For Superman’s 75th anniversary in 2013, a list of the …
2005 was the 20th anniversary of the original Crisis on Infinite Earths, a book that I had never read but had heard an awful lot about growing up. It was a story that had shaped everything in the DC Universe that I grew up reading, whether I knew it or not. The concept of a …
Continue reading Infinite Crisis and Superman: Part 2- The Main Event
I was out of comics for several years of my life, from the time of high school through most of college. The 90s craze had basically subsided, I got busy with other activities, comics got more expensive, and a lot of talent at Marvel and DC that I enjoyed reading had left for other companies. …
Some years back I became fixated on CBR’s Top Ten lists curated by Brian Cronin. These fun lists ranged from greatest artists to storylines to best stories by specific creators, and they were compiled a few times each year to much fanfare. Perhaps my favorite type of list was comic book “runs,” aka a sustained …
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