The Ottawa Comic Book Guy

Today I am going to go a little off the "beaten path." I am going to list the various creators I have liked  and enjoyed over the years in different places. I will mention the creator and a bit of what I have read that that person had a hand in creating and why I remember liking it, in no particular order (except for last, I'm saving that for my favourite.) I know Boris is dying of anticipation: Boris Karloff - For the picture above (OK enough jokes for now). Jim Shooter - For almost everything he has done that I have read from the Legion of Super-Heroes, and for his editorialship at Marvel in the early 1980s. After Marvel's early 1960 early development years, despite what others may think, I find that Shooter's reign at Marvel had the books tight and cohesive with continuity. Stories were annotated with several asterisks per issue referencing previous books and/or series and he was responsible for bringing out the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe...

Good afternoon, (or morning, or night; whenever you read this.) I have returned from holidays and there has been some news I feel the need to comment on, as well as some notes on the new Overstreet Price Guide (48th edition) Disney has announced the cancellation of the Dark Horse licence to continue printing Buffy the Vampire Slayer and related comics. Naturally, they are being moved to Marvel to be continued, but completely revamped (pun intended.) The Disney plans include more stories of the original crew, as well as other secondary characters and books based upon the new Slayer series being planned. I am extremely disappointed in this, like I was when they did this to Star Wars. Dark Horse has put out quality product for years and years (especially the stuff based on licensed products, such as Alien and Predator) , and Marvel's stuff has been sorely lacking in equivalent quality for the last year and a half (or so) I think. As per their usual stuff, all of the content in t...