The Ottawa Comic Book Guy

The recent article(s) on Charlton Comics I did have made me think about my own collection. I have a lot of DC (surprised?). I also have a fair share of Marvel Comics. Some Gold Key/Dells. A large number of Dark Horse Star Wars and Buffyverse. IDW. And one Dynamite comic (and what a dynamite comic) Which leads me to thinking that with the amount of comics past and present made by companies other than the Big Two, why don't I have more? Is it because I am too invested in the mainstream? Am I afraid to give something a chance? I don't seem to have problems for the most part when comics adapted to the big or small screen have changes (racial changes for the most part don;t bother me, for example, I am a person that has always believed that Bond was never just one man, that he was a bugaboo/persona; so a black Bond doesn't bother me. There are black Kryptonians, and Amazons, and possibly, white Wakandians so that doesn't bug me. Nor does switching gender or sexual prefere...

I preface this by saying that even though I live in Aylmer, I grew up in Ottawa and I have an affinity for the city that transcends what most people feel (except maybe Batman for Gotham City.) So I feel a point of pride in the comic/sci-fi world whenever something or someone makes it from our little burg. (Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock comes to mind right away.) So today I am going to review a book that I picked up at Ottawa Comiccon, inked by local artist Craig Taillefer, based on Bram Stoker's Dracula This book is a collection of a four-issue miniseries published by Caliber Comics. Written by Steve Jones, and penciled by Robert Schneiders and inked by Craig, this mini-series strives to be a faithful reproduction of the original novel by Bram Stoker. Well, as someone that has read the original novel on numerous occasions, I can say, they got it right. The writing captured the essence of the novel and I didn't feel that anything was left out, and since there are several si...

Good day, my fellow comic denizens, I have just arrived back home from Ottawa Comiccon, the 2018 edition and I can honestly say, that from a comic book perspective, never had I have had so much success at a convention (I almost did last year, but I was one book short.) Pictured above is the first comic book I have bought as an investment in my life. As the first appearance of Power Girl, I like to think that this book (like her obvious...qualities) will appreciate larger in time. But it is a book I have coveted for a long time and since I have completed my Supergirl goal, I went for it. I managed to sit through many comic panels this year, I attended the one Dan Parent of Archie Comics fame (hosted by Josh Stafford of the Mayfair Theater, also known by many as a huge comic fan in his own right.) Parent talked a lot about the current state of affairs at Archie, about Dan Decarlo and his work with him, and talked up his Kickstarter for his project Die, Kitty, Die (you can read abo...