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Category: Solicitations

  • 08 – One Store Under Doom

    08 – One Store Under Doom

    It finally happened. Curt bought something new and to disastrous results. If you could sum up Curt, he is that friend who always thinks he’s right, and everything you are enjoying at the time is stupid and main-stream. But when he decides to enjoy it, then he goes all in, forgetting all the names he called you and not seeing the hypocrite that he is.

    On the one hand it is satisfying to see Curt all dressed up in his Doctor Doom cosplay. On the other, it is doubly satisfying to then dust off my Thing outfit and get to business. Because it definitely was clobberin’ time. Finally.

    But in all seriousness, One World Under Doom is proving to be a worthy event. I did give it my pick of the week previously, so it is fitting that Franka also decided to make a comic about it. Ryan North has a love for this family as is evident from his current run on the Fantastic Four. And he and R.B. Silva are cooking up something special, and from the look of some of the covers, it will be a glorious mesh-up with the world of Doctor Strange. I am quite excited for this. Maybe not as much as Curt but I can consume my habits in a healthy manner.

  • 07 – Letter Hack

    07 – Letter Hack

    Remember those things called letter pages, that would appear at the end of the comic book? This was an attempt by the publisher to garner and include feedback of the various issues, interestingly both good and bad. In the ‘olden’ days, every comic book had them, and if you had an issue that did not include it, either that series was doomed, or the editor/assistant editor simply did not have time to do it. I, for one, loved the letters pages and sometimes you would see the same name quite often, and these individuals were called letter hacks.

    They do exist in todays comics albeit sporadically. Marvel, for one, does include them quite often. DC, on the other hand, decided to remove them entirely. So I do wonder when something happens that you do not like, or perhaps really like, how do you let the publisher know? Well, if you did buy new comics you would know exactly what to do. If you are Curt, on the other hand, who has not bought anything new for quite a while, you resort to the old way.