[EDIT: Welcome, Larry Young fans! Be sure to also check out my response to what brought you here, here.]
I have to admit to having an extreme aversion to hype. I call it the American Beauty-syndrome, in reference to the inexplicable amount of praise that overrated retread of suburban dysfunction received. I saw it three weeks [...]
[One Marvel, one DC, both published the previous Wednesday, plus a random indie from whenever I feel like it, each reviewed quickie-style: 1 Minute=bad, 10 Minutes=good. Connections, if any at all, may be forced purely for the experience.]
A bit of an off-week for the Big Two found me scouring the shelves at Midtown Comics for [...]
Intro time: My name is Oscar and where once I was a rabid collector and all-around comic fiend, I have had to calm my obsession down to where I now visit nationwide bookstores and happily use their cafés to help me catch up on what’s happening in the comic book world through trade paperbacks. Not [...]
Blame it on the Cartoon Network’s Mucha Lucha for my even giving El Zombo Fantasma a second glance. Or credit it, depending, but if not for it, this book wouldn’t have even registered on my radar and that would have been my loss. I’d never heard of El Zombo’s original 3-issue run, published under Dark [...]
In part one of this two-part article, I chronicled my discovery of the Vs. System trading card game. After getting hooked, I decided to enter a local Sneak Preview Tournament to play-test the latest edition to the series, Marvel Knights, not knowing exactly what I was getting myself into. Part two follows my journey into [...]
