Comic Haul week of December 9th, 2025
New comics!
The Amazing Spider-Man #17
Geiger #19
Assorted Crisis Events #7 - I loved this story and I’m upset I missed whatever the prior six issues were. I think anthology horror works so well with the comic format and it’s so easy to recommend
The Incredible Hulk #400
Comic Haul week of December 2nd, 2025
New comics!
Fantastic Four #6
DC K.O. #1
Poison Ivy #39
Speed Racer #5
Christmas is coming! We did the Christmas Costume bar crawl at the Jersey Shore. Many people tried to kill me but I didn’t make it easy. I enjoyed a midnight sandwich after a day of drinking.
Phobia Vol. 1 (2025)
I have a policy with crowdfunding campaigns, only one at a time. Phobia was a horror anthology funded with a Kickstarter, estimated delivery was March 2024 (some delays were due to confusion around tariffs). I read a lot of horror anthologies and this one hits marks that others can’t reach. It’s funny and it also takes itself seriously. The stores are paced like those old Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, they build a world is less than two hundred words and tell you enough to leave you wanting more. Corny is good in horror, cheesy can be too, it’s a welcome change in pace when the rest of the story is morbid and gory. A lot of other horror short stories that I’ve been reading hit a wall when they want to do another lame story about a tech startup gone wrong, and it’s to feel true fear when the victim in a lot of those others stories are too deserving of their punishment. The stories in Fobia feel like they can happen to you…
Read this by the campfire the weekend before Halloween, so I think it was worth the wait.
Comic Haul week of November 25th, 2025
New comics!
Absolute Batman #13 and #14
Escape #4
DC K.O. #2
Geiger #18
Harley Quinn #56
Happy thanksgiving! My comic book store is moving to a temporary space in a antique mall, the old building is getting demolished. Future is uncertain for Old Bill but he refuses to die!
I try not to double post here what I'm already covering on other socials, you may have seen the turkey video already. That day, a friend brought over his family's signature sauce, or chutney, or something, called sambal. I'm not sure, but it's reddish pink and it seems to be mostly caramelized onions and peppers. It's really good! Speaking of cross posting, my Fantasy Football team is "regional sandwiches", inspired by my own blog. Often I update my football profile picture with a new regional sandwich, and I'm choosing to count these sambal hotdogs. I think I'll google that word tonight and see what that's all about. His family is Australian? Not sure if that will play a role in sambal's history.
These are #44 and #45 for my July 4th to July 4th hotdog counting experiment