The Ottawa Comic Book Guy

Good day, and welcome back for those of my regular readers. At first, when my son went and made today's pick of a book for review, I was sighing a little on the inside, because he had picked another Superman book. But then, after hearing that news that Henry Cavill was now done as Superman in the DC movie franchise, I feel like this can be a good pick for things after all. The book I will be doing today is Adventures of Superman  # 618 (September 2003) "Four on the Floor, Break Stuff" - Writer: Joe Casey, Artist: Charlie Adlard, Colourists:  Tania and Rich Horie, Letterer: Comic Craft, Associate Editor: Tom Palmer Jr., Editor: Eddie Berganza Before we begin with what is happening in this issue, we need to quickly recap that in the last few issues before this one, Mxyzptlk has split himself into a pair of twins and has also decided to bother people by selling them encyclopedias door to door. (In the old days this actually happened, folks). BY the beginning of this...

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...