100 Years, 100 Creators – Part 3

Over a few posts, I’m choosing different creators or creative teams–novelist, composer, scriptwriter, comic book artist, etc–who have influenced or inspired me, and in most cases brought me a lot of enjoyment.

Weekly Geeky Question #28: Favorite Comic Book Villains

Every week in 2018, the plan is that my friend Rod is going to ask me some geeky question that will answer in a post. This week is Week #28, and this week’s question is a pretty straightforward one.

Who are my favorite comic book villains?

Culling the Comic Collection / Batman Stories You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

I’ve only recently returned from a trip to New York, which meant that I’ve been spending time with my parents, visiting friends, stomping around the old stomping grounds (always stomping this way and that, waking up the neighbors with all that noisy stomping) and of course…

Going through my old comic collection that my parents have generously not tossed into the trash.

Man of Steel (the comic, not the movie)

In lists of great Superman stories (a common thing these days with both a new movie out and the 75^th anniversary of the character), you often see John Byrne’s miniseries Man of Steel showing up somewhere.  This always strikes me as a bit strange, because in some ways, Man of Steel isn’t really a story.  In spite of some connecting narrative elements, it’s a more of a succession of episodes that give us an overview of the newly revised origin and background of Superman and his universe.  So it makes a great series, even if it is only six issues long.  Now in a lot of ways, this is actually better than a story.  Especially at the time, it served as a kind of promise of what was to come.