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.
