Johnathan | July 8, 2011
Not sure why, but I just caught up on some stuff that I bought up to two weeks ago. Well, I’m pretty certain about why I caught up on it (I like comics and thus read them all the time) but why there were about six unread issues from each week remains a mystery. In [...]
Johnathan | April 17, 2011
In the wake of the near-death experience of not having a damn computer for two weeks I am retiring John Buys Comics, I think. It was conceived of when there were several people doing reviews on this site every week and the format that I set up for myself, loose as it was, was a [...]
Johnathan | February 18, 2011
Bit of a sparse week for me, comics-wise, so I have but three observations, one per book. Not that I only bought three books, that is. I just have three observations and they’re spread out over three books. Yeah. Young Justice No. 1 – Though I haven’t yet seen the cartoon that this is spun [...]
Johnathan | February 4, 2011
It’s true! It snowed so hard yesterday Wednesday that I got to leave work early, but I still trudged off to Strange Adventures to buy the comical booklets that I love so dearly. Plus I got some D&D miniatures. And also I stopped on the way home for some beer. Hell, if I’m going to [...]
Johnathan | January 28, 2011
I was absolutely positive that I would write an epically spectacular John Buys Comics last night. I’d read everything (for once), it was a good week full of good comics, I had these little cheesy shortbready things to snack upon… conditions were perfect. Then, disaster: my package from Topatoco arrived and I was powerless to [...]
Johnathan | January 13, 2011
DC Comics’ theme cover month has had a somewhat jarring effect on me this week, in that it starkly outlines just how many of their books I’m buying. I guess I’m enjoying them all, but it’s still weird. Especially as the only two books I feel like talking about this week are from other publishers. [...]
Johnathan | January 6, 2011
This is going to be intensely abbreviated, as I can imagine that reading my thoughts on comics is beginning to pall. After this, you get a week off. New: Hellboy: the Sleeping and the Dead, which is a two-parter set in 1966 and features Hellboy vs. vampires, one of my favourite situations. This is supposed [...]
Johnathan | December 17, 2010
Dungeons & Dragons – I just picked up issues 0 through 2 this week, and as a – and I’m surprised how tentative I am about admitting this, given the forum – as a Dungeon Master I am enjoying it a great deal. The basics of the plot are similar to those in basically any [...]
Johnathan | December 2, 2010
That’s right, it’s December, that magical month in which I don’t seem to actually be doing a whole lot more with my time but somehow there still never actually seems to be enough time to do things. So much was bought but little was read, so sad, so sad. No matter! Here are some bullet [...]
Johnathan | November 25, 2010
Pocket reviews of the things John bought this week. Featuring Batman, Batman, Batman.