I have a small box of comics, those I kept when I got rid of the rest of my collections. Small box, two comic widths long and one comic width high. I got rid of hundreds of comics. Boxes of them.
What did I keep?
Most of it is local stuff & Bat titles (the KnightQuest/Fall/End series, the early issues of Legends of the Dark Night & Shadows of the Bat). A handful of graphic novels. One or two titles of some titles that I can't remember why I kept. Other than the graphic novels, there's just one single Marvel comic in there (a copy of X-men signed by Chris Claremont). And 30+ issues of Starman.
Somewhere I have some issues of Damage Control too. 4 issue miniseries (x2) about a company who repair the damage from fights between superheros & villains. That's what I was looking for when I started poking around in the Box this morning. Didn't find any. Did pull out a couple of issues of Outlaws though. This was an 8 part series done by DC, a retelling of the Robin Hood story set, um, I don't know. They have guns & motorcycles & all the common people live in villages to which the king's guards come to take slaves from. Or something like that. Possibly post-apocalyptic(plague) USA. First issue is the usual "team story" first issue -- here are all our characters & this is their background. And therein any possible reader curiousity (suspense) is destroyed. The bad guy is predictable & stereotyped. It could be suffering because the writer wants to get everything established up front before settling into the story.
Did I buy all the 8 issues? I can't remember. Some of the covers look familiar but why only keep 2? Why keep any actually :) I had a look in the Box to see if I could find any more but no luck. I did pull out the issues of Starman though. The only title that I kept all I had. I reread some.
In the opening pages, the title character is killed and the role is reluctantly taken up by his younger brother, a collectibles dealer, who, oh, look at the covers. And inside, there's a writer who knows how to tell a story with pictures (James Robinson). I know why I kept these.
The outlaw hero & the reluctant hero. Now that's what I was going to write about but I got distracted. Tomorrow, maybe
What did I keep?
Most of it is local stuff & Bat titles (the KnightQuest/Fall/End series, the early issues of Legends of the Dark Night & Shadows of the Bat). A handful of graphic novels. One or two titles of some titles that I can't remember why I kept. Other than the graphic novels, there's just one single Marvel comic in there (a copy of X-men signed by Chris Claremont). And 30+ issues of Starman.
Somewhere I have some issues of Damage Control too. 4 issue miniseries (x2) about a company who repair the damage from fights between superheros & villains. That's what I was looking for when I started poking around in the Box this morning. Didn't find any. Did pull out a couple of issues of Outlaws though. This was an 8 part series done by DC, a retelling of the Robin Hood story set, um, I don't know. They have guns & motorcycles & all the common people live in villages to which the king's guards come to take slaves from. Or something like that. Possibly post-apocalyptic(plague) USA. First issue is the usual "team story" first issue -- here are all our characters & this is their background. And therein any possible reader curiousity (suspense) is destroyed. The bad guy is predictable & stereotyped. It could be suffering because the writer wants to get everything established up front before settling into the story.
Did I buy all the 8 issues? I can't remember. Some of the covers look familiar but why only keep 2? Why keep any actually :) I had a look in the Box to see if I could find any more but no luck. I did pull out the issues of Starman though. The only title that I kept all I had. I reread some.
In the opening pages, the title character is killed and the role is reluctantly taken up by his younger brother, a collectibles dealer, who, oh, look at the covers. And inside, there's a writer who knows how to tell a story with pictures (James Robinson). I know why I kept these.
The outlaw hero & the reluctant hero. Now that's what I was going to write about but I got distracted. Tomorrow, maybe
