When putting away some Batman back issues I bought, I looked at the ever growing number of comic boxes, and I wondered how many Batman comics I might have bought in the span of a year.

You see, last year around this time I was the owner of only five Batman comics. I owned: The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, Arkham Asylum, The Killing Joke and ( Read more... )

I was feeling grumpy and depressed, because I'm home alone with my cold (yeah, still *grumble*), and wasn't feeling up to going out, but then I decided that lying in bed, zapping through 24 hours news channels who intercut terror alert news (*) with New Year's celebration pictures wasn't the way to go for New Year's Eve, and I should really start ( Read more... )

No new comics for me today. When I went to my comic store this afternoon to get my subscription, the new US comics weren't available yet. :( The shipment was still stuck at the airport -- normally they are available in the store late on Thursday, so going there Friday is usually unproblematic ( Read more... )

After the Neal Adams & Denny O'Neil run on Green Lantern / Green Arrow caught my interest in that Superheroes Unmasked documentary, like I posted a while ago, y'all knew of course how it would end. Once I covet a comic (and can find and afford it, or at least find it and beg others for money to afford it *g*) it's only a matter of time until it ( Read more... )

...but some things really strain that. The X-Files season nine for example, there I compromised by watching just the eps that had Mulder or the Lone Gunmen in them. Really DCU-wide crossovers are another example, if for different reasons. Like the Joker: Last Laugh event with "jokerized" villains overrunning all regular DC titles. There are (not ( Read more... )

( Here I talk about Gotham Knights #24, and how much I enjoyed the main story, then somehow segue into a sort of ramble on the frustrations and joys of collecting single issues vs. the instant gratification of getting TPBs but occasional discontent with the way DC assembles issues into TPBs. )

( More boring Batman lists, this time comparing single issues and TPB after No Man's Land up to (and including) Batman: Fugitive, thus covering the time from March 2001 to September 2002. )

As I research how to proceed with my plan towards world domination getting an overview of recent Batman canon and continuity (heh, the level of difficulty is about the same), I'm accumulating a lot of notes (both paper and electronic) on which stories are published where, what the main events are etc. And of course I continue to promptly misplace ( Read more... )

I updated my website. I added new comic artist recommendations: Isabel Kreitz on the Wimmin's Comics and Carl Barks and Don Rosa on the Other Comics page. I also updated my comic want list, with the Paradise Too issues I'm looking for.

( I ramble about how tv fandoms are somehow easier, about the malaise of prioritizing sprawling canon sources, when faced with inadequate means to obtain the whole, about the difficulty of talking about the source and the characters while having nagging doubts regarding the own competence to make any statements, about how weird it is for me to collect these comics even though I don't love their artwork... )