Too Much Cool Stuff – Not Enough $$$! – August ‘09


SugarShock cover

by KC Carlson

Long-time Westfield readers might remember that I used to do a regular recommendations column back in the days when our computers still ran on coal. For those many thousands of generations of comics fans who were born since then, I’d like to explain, for a second or two, how my recommendations work, since there’s no real overt logic at work here.

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KC’s Bookshelf: John Stanley Library Vol. 1 – Melvin Monster


Melvin Monster #1 cover
by KC Carlson

I must have read Melvin Monster #1 30 or 40 times as a kid. I’m not really sure why I bought it, as by then I was deeply into superhero comics and leaving the “kid stuff” behind. But there was something very odd about the cover: a monstrous green boy with a pointed head and a Moe Howard haircut swallowing a toy train after resetting the train tracks to actually run down his throat, while a normal-looking kid looked on in horror. Something made me pick it up and start flipping through it.

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