It’s been (ulp!) over a year ago since I last posted anything about the twin lines of The Caped Crusader and The Dark Knight Detective books! There’s not been much movement in the months since, but there is some news. Read more
Not long after posting about the Moon Knight Omnibuses last year, I tripped over this fun thing which I just had to have – a facsimile edition of Moon Knight #1! I am probably the last person to have realised Read more
Well, I’ve certainly been neglecting this place so far this year! To be a bit fair to myself I have been tinkering around the edges, experimenting with privacy conscious site analytics and generally trying to de-Google things a bit. Why Read more
DC has continued with both of these lines of chunky paperbacks, collecting Post-Crisis, late 1980s and early 1990s Batman and Detective Comics. I’ve updated the main post on this here – Holy Collecting Crisis! – but some of the highlights Read more
Vaguely tying in with the recent Moon Knight series on Disney+, this year Marvel published a second omnibus volume collecting the classic 1980s comics, including those written by Doug Moench with art by Bill Sienkiewicz. Naturally, I bought the second Read more
Whilst flicking through the new Captain Britain Omnibus for the previous post, I came across this arresting image: Oh no! Captain Britain attacking the Queen! This is the cover and splash page to issue #39, July 1977 and 1977 was Read more
On a more fun note than dealing with mouldy books, a few weeks back I got the latest edition of the Captain Britain Omnibus. It’s a very comprehensive tome (which you’d expect with a page count of about 1368!) collecting Read more
This is a follow up to this post where I noted my horror at finding mould patches in some of my books! After doing a bit of online research, I found a couple of useful articles. Most of the information Read more
Just when you think things might be getting back to normal (whatever that means anymore), our old friend covid-19 comes knocking. After a family visit, three family members were struck down. Fortunately symptoms didn’t progress beyond being similar to heavy Read more
I should have been on the look out, I live in an old stone cottage in a damp part of world after all! But it’s struck!