Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #4: Green Lantern edited by Jack C. Harris This volume contains six stories of the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, mostly about first appearances of certain concepts. “The Planet of Doomed Men” story by John Broome, art by Gil Kane & Murphy Anderson, was in Green… Continue reading Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #4: Green Lantern
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Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2026
Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2026 edited by Robert Greenberger Disclaimer: I contributed to the Kickstarter for this book, and there’s an advertisement for this blog on page 44. It’s time for another annual installment of this pulp-style anthology! Some returning authors, some new ones, and some familiar characters to follow. This year, the genres… Continue reading Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2026
Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts
Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts written by Christopher Cantwell, art by Megan Levens One of the running jokes among Star Trek fans, especially when talking about the original series, is the “redshirts”, characters whose only purpose in the story is to die to establish that the situation was dangerous and how the danger… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503 edited by Nicola Cuti All good things must come to an end, they say, and this digest issue was the last one of the original Adventure Comics run. (It would be picked up again as a title 2009-11 before being cancelled for the New 52 reboot.) At the end… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503
Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider
Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider First, let’s talk about Kamen Rider. It’s a children’s superhero television show that started airing in 1971 in Japan. In it, the evil organization Shocker, founded by surviving Nazis and their collaborators, wants to take over the world. To do so, they used cybernetic and… Continue reading Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #500
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #500 edited by Nicola Cuti For this milestone issue of the anthology comic book in digest form, DC decided to go with the most popular feature, all Legion of Super-Heroes stories! “The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire” story by Jerry Siegel, art by John Forte, opens with a reminder that… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #500
Comic Book Review: Dark Mysteries Vol. 1
Comic Book Review: Dark Mysteries Vol. 1 by Various Artists This is another of the PS Artbooks softcover collections of pre-Code horror comics, collecting the first five issues of Dark Mysteries from Master Comics, published in 1951-1952. These comic books may have been read by the youth, but the shaping underwear ads indicate an older… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Dark Mysteries Vol. 1
Manga Review: Shounen Jump Weekly 2025
Manga Review: Shounen Jump Weekly 2025 by various creators. I haven’t been reading Shounen Jump as much this year, busy with other things, but it is the thirteenth anniversary of my blog, so let’s take a look at what I’ve been covering the longest. One Piece is still running, though this looks to be maybe… Continue reading Manga Review: Shounen Jump Weekly 2025
Anime Review: Ghastly Prince Enma Burning Up
Anime Review: Ghastly Prince Enma Burning Up (Japanese title: Dororon Enma-kun Meera Mera) It is the 1970s in Japan, a time of rising inflation, the Oil Crisis and the Vietnam War. But most of that’s grown-up problems. For elementary school student Harumi, the most pressing issue is that there’s a monster stealing her teachers’ and… Continue reading Anime Review: Ghastly Prince Enma Burning Up
Comic Book Review: Lost Marvels No.1: Tower of Shadows
Comic Book Review: Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows edited by Dr. Michael Dean The “Lost Marvels” series of books reprints Marvel Comics publications that have not been previously collected in reprint volumes, looking to be mostly short-run series and one-offs that match a theme. This first volume reprints most of a horror anthology… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Lost Marvels No.1: Tower of Shadows