Johnathan | October 6, 2011
I always get way too worked up when I’m reviewing something like this as it comes out, so with DC’s September title push I decided to just sit back and wait until the first wave was over until I started spouting my opinions onto the e-webs. And then I got sick and ended up waiting [...]
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 | January 3, 2011
Well hell. This has been sitting here as a draft for two days. Pretend that didn’t happen. Yes, everything is shiny and new in 2011 and my hose is abuzz with the sounds of my girlfriend tossing things out to make room for all the junk sweet loot that we were presented with over the [...]
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 8, 2010
I feel a bit sheepish about this one, as the only reason that I didn’t buy it for myself is that I was offered the review copy before I tracked it down. I actually saw it in London but was being foolishly frugal – for all I know, that particular copy is still pining for [...]
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 [...]