Too Much Cool Stuff – Not Enough $$$ – December ‘09


Siege #2

by KC Carlson

We’re in the big wind-down to both of Marvel and DC’s most recent events, so there’s lots of Siege and Blackest Night stuff all over the order form. But you’re probably aware of those events, as it seems that’s all anybody wants to talk about anymore. I suppose it’s too much to ask that both of these Events might actually wrap up with a big, definitive ending (just for a change), instead of simply leading into the next Big Mega Mind-Bending Nose-Blowing (sorry, but it IS the cold and flu season!) Thing. Why are publishers and some creators afraid of the words “The End”? Can no one actually write an ending to anything anymore?

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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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