The Ottawa Comic Book Guy

Good day. We are back after a short hiatus for this thing that Prince called life. Today I am going to do a review of the latest book that my son picked out, saying he loved the big yellow man. So without further ado, here is a review of December 1980's issue of DC Comics Presents #28, featuring Superman and Supergirl. (Doesn't Mongul have a face that even a mother can't love?) There are two stories in this issue, the main one and a feature called "Whatever Happened to" that was a regular feature of this book during this time. This months feature is Johnny Thunder, Lawman (not the doofus with the magic T-Bolt, the other one.) Story 1 - "Warworld" Writer: Len Wein, Artists: Jim Starlin and Romeo Tanghal, Letterer: Ben Oda, Colourist: Jerry Serpe, Edied by Julie Schwartz. The story begins with Superman and Supergirl flying through space where Supergirl is recounting to her cousin his story of how he met Mongul before, and that Mongul got away

While doing research for my gorilla cover comics article this week, I came to two realizations: one, that I have way too many empty coffee mugs in my computer area; and two, there are so many articles already done on gorilla comics that the subject has almost been done to death. Like myself, Boris was surprised: So I have decided to change the focus a little bit on the article and talk about different genres of comic collecting instead. Now, in this I am going to avoid one-character or one series collecting, as this is pretty straight forward (I am a little guilty of this as I seem to major in the Super-Family titles even ones such as DC Comics Presents... ), but instead I will focus upon different genres and types. Subject covers - This would include gorilla covers, which by far seem to be the most numerous, but also include various other types, such as robot covers as pictured above. The five most popular cover subjects as I have found in my research are: gorillas, robots, b

If there are two truisms in life, one is that there is never enough time; although time itself is (allegedly) infinite, we humans have only a finite amount of it. This week has seen me working too much and family has taken up the rest of the time. (The other truism that taxes (cue Prinicpal Skinner's "oh yeah, the taxes" thing), which just depletes the resources needed for more comic books.) So, as I have not had enough of "me" time this week to begin writing my article on gorilla comics, I thought I would show some interesting covers of books of the subject I shall be covering soon. Luckily for me, school is winding down for the boy (meaning less school events to go to) and time should free up again soon. (Please note I am not complaining truly as I would do anything for my kids first and foremost.) So without further ado let's get our monkey on... I tried to get a mix of comic book companies, but DC has by far the mo

Today, I want to talk about not one, but two local comic artists who have been working in the business for years, Ronn Sutton and Janet Hetherington. The two comic creators (writing and visual art) are not only partners in creation, but partners in life as I understand it. (Their website is: http://www.best-destiny.com /) I have heard of Janet's work for at least eight years and discovered Ronn at Ottawa Comiccon (2013 edition.) At the time I bought one of their joint comic efforts (a book by the name of Kolchak /Honey West, pictured below.) and I thought it was a good read. Opportunity to truly see more of their stuff in passing was limited in the years following until I managed to make some time at Ottawa Comiccon. I walked away with favourable impressions of the two. Ronn was quiet and, quite obviously proud of the work he has done, while Janet was more bubbly and quick to laughter. Janet also writes movie screenplays, such as for the movies Jesse James: Lawman starring

I have had no time due to work and children to begin any articles yet, but I don't want to go too long without entries so..the good , the bad and the ugly of comics right now. (I can tell by the reaction on Boris' face, he's excited.) The last month and a half (from late April to about mid-June) has too many blockbuster movies for most geek budgets...I mean Avengers, Deadpool 2, Solo and another Jurassic Park movie all so close together? Come on, how much money do these people think we have? (Although, even in a role where she keeps her clothes on all the time, still awesome to see Emilia Clarke.) Judging by how under-expectations the box office take for Solo was, can we expect that movies may actually start going down in box office take? Speaking about money, after Amazing Spider-Man 800 and it's 57 cover variants, we are going to get yet another Amazing Spider-Man #1. And of course, after Action 1000, and a new Man of Steel , we are going to get yet anothe