Last Sunday's beautiful afternoon saw the Lake Erie Crushers, Avon's Frontier League Baseball Club, bring their four-game win streak into Sprenger Stadium to take on the Normal Cornbelters. To celebrate, the Crushers management did what any business with fortitude and class would do if they thought about actually doing something fun and interesting. They scheduled a Superhero … [Read more...]
10 Awesome Things – Wonder Woman Edition!
It's Drudgler's 10 Awesome Things - Wonder Woman Edition! This is the first of a series of 10 Awesome Things posts and it's entirely appropriate that it's about My Weird Fantasy, an Amazon Princess. I barely remember the first time I read a comic book. I must have been about 6 or 7 and I think it was a Sad Sack comic. I also can't remember the first time I fell in love, … [Read more...]
Off the Wall, Episode #002: Sociopaths, Detective Animals, and Herb Trimpe
Item of interest #1: Savage Things, #1 Like many collectors, the amount of comics I buy often ebbs and flows on foolish tides, or tides of necessity, or tides of convenience or inconvenience. When my kids were little and most of my so-called disposable income went towards pesky items like formula and diapers and I'd find myself cutting back to one or two titles a … [Read more...]
Reviewing Justice League Vs. Suicide Squad
Justice League vs. Suicide Squad is a comic book mini-series done right. I approached this event with a bit of trepidation. With a Suicide Squad movie this last summer and a Justice League film coming soon, there was a part of me that suspected that this was a cynical, synergistic cash grab. But I was very happy to be wrong. In the story, the Justice League, the … [Read more...]
Off the Wall, Episode #001
The Cage, as one of my fave new customers refers to the shop, has a pretty basic set-up; as you come through the door, there’s a wall of comics to the right. First up, there’s all the new things for the week, starting with the small press stuff, like Image (though it’s hard to call them a small press these days), Archie, and Dynamite, then you have DC, and finally … [Read more...]
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