Reading – Kane Gilmour

Did I Say the Mail Carrier Loved Me?

On October 31, 2019

In Comics, Cool Stuff, Inspiration, Reading, Uncategorized

More like he hates my guts after lugging this 850 page behemoth up to my door. I’ve got the two Silver Age Omnibuses for the Legion of Super-Heroes, and now today, I have the omnibus for DC’s John Carter rip-off character, Adam Strange. Don’t get me wrong, I love the character. I probably even prefer him. DC Comics really used the better idea by having Adam be an archeologist and an adventurer who needs to travel the Earth constantly looking for another Zeta beam to take him home to his beloved.

This massive slab of book is beautifully recolored and reprints all of Adam Strange’s appearances in SHOWCASE #17-19, MYSTERY IN SPACE #53-100 and 102, and STRANGE ADVENTURES #157, 217, 218, 220, 221, 222, 224, 226, 235 and 241-243. Takes you from 1958 all the way to the 1970s. Great stories from Gardner Fox, Dave Wood, Jerry Siegel, and Denny O’Neil and amazing art from Carmine Infantino, Mike Sekowsky, Murphy Anderson, and more. A perfect slice of The Silver Age of American Comic Books.

Not sure when the hell I’ll ever get to read this, but it’s looking like I can start at Christmas.

The Mail Carrier Really Loves Me

By Kane

On October 16, 2019

In Doctor Who, Reading

Just delivered. I’m catching up on The Black Archives, the excellent series of critical monographs from Obverse Books on individual Doctor Who stories. I have yet to review this series, but I’ll get to it at some point.

Pictured here, are volumes 29, 30, 33, and 34. The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Horror of Fang Rock, and Battlefield. While I haven’t read the other three authors, range editor Philip Purser-Hallard’s work on the series (4: Dark Water/Death in Heaven and 13: Human Nature/The Family of Blood, the latter co-authored with Naomi Jacobs) has been quite good. If you’re in the UK, you can grab these straight from the publisher’s website (or from Amazon.co.uk), but if you’re in the US or elsewhere, head to Lulu. Very affordable, and concise examinations of your favorite DW stories.

Look What the Mailman Brought

By Kane

On July 29, 2019

In Reading, Reviews, Uncategorized

I’ve been a fan of Tony Harris’s artwork for many years, as I’ll expound upon soon here. Never read The Whistling Skull, so I’m excited about that one. And I gave the whole New 52 a miss a few years back when it came out, because I knew things would revert to the default continuity (and they did in 2016). So I hadn’t read Scott Snyder’s Batman back then. But when I was down in FL this summer, I picked up The Court of Owls, and it was pretty good. Helps that Books-A-Million has all these for dirt cheap, in their discount graphic novel section. Not pictured is Vol 1–The Court of Owls, and Vol 2–The City of Owls (which I’ve also read.) Also missing is Vol 6–Graveyard Shift, which arrived the day after I took the picture. But I got every third book seen here for free. Of course, it’s going to take me a few years to read these, because I only have so much time…But it’s nice to have the collection of Shiny New Things.