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...

Hello, let's just do a quick review, shall we? When we left off last time, Aquaman was just getting his first series cancelled for the first time in 1971. His TV Cartoon was cancelled in 1970. Where was this character to go? Two answers. One a new TV show came along starting in 1973... (This show, of course is where people started making the joke that Aquaman sucks, from everything from Family Guy to The Big Bang Theory.. .) Aquaman's appearance in the Super-Friends was a bit of a surprise to most, as Green Lantern, Flash and even Green Arrow were better known at the time than Aquaman. He ended up being a member for almost every episode of the series, in all of it's incarnations. In comic books, he was returned to the anthology series that before he had his longest run in with issue 441 (after a brief run from 433-435). He managed to stay here until issue 452 as the lead feature in the magazine. He disappeared for a few issues when his original magazine retur...