Favorite Comics of 2021- An Extremely Uncanny List
Time to talk about my return to comics collecting and the comics I really enjoyed in 2021. This was a great year for comics.
Category: Comics
Batman And Plastic Man Save Christmas From The Mob
The countdown to Christmas continues in this edition of Extremely Uncanny with a thrilling tale of how Batman and Plastic Man saved Christmas…from a bunch of cigarette smugglers. ‘Tis the Season, after all.
This is a wild one folks. It’s a Bob Haney joint.
That time Spider-Man trashed a Macy’s
Spider-man’s Christmas can’t get any worse. Not only is he doing last minute shopping for J. Jonah, there is someone trashing Macy’s dressed as Spider-man!
It’s an X-men Thanksgiving: Uncanny X-men #308
It’s Thanksgiving and here at Extremely Uncanny we are taking a look at Uncanny X-men #308, the Thanksgiving issue. Join me on this journey back in time to the X-men before Onslaught.
Review- Magic #4 [Boom! Studios]
Boom! Studios continues their Magic series with Magic #4. Who is the force manipulating the planeswalkers? Find out here
Happy 30th X-force #1 and the truth behind 5 Million
Let’s talk about X-force #1’s 30th anniversary and provide context to those 5-Million Copies Sold
New Comic Review- Barbaric #1 [VAULT]
The new series from Vault is Barbaric. Is Barbaric worth checking out? Check out the review to see.
History of Heroes Reborn #1: Unfinished Business
Heroes Reborn is derided for being an example of the 90’s excess but what if I told you that Heroes Reborn changed the industry forever.
RIP Nerd Mall- A Requiem for Comic Shops
2021 has been the year I returned to comics. I have written about this in a number of past articles. It was spurned on by buying a collection of Astonishing X-Men last Summer along with checking out HoX/PoX on Marvel Unlimited. That said the biggest factor to me getting back into comics was a new comic shop. Nerd Mall was a comic shop that opened in January of this past year. It was a cool little shop that was still getting its footing with comics. That meant they bought a lot of comics that my old shop would not stock and I got to try out a bunch of new comics. Additionally, the shop opened only a few miles from the school where I teach.
Backlog Journey #10- DC Comics’ 52
This week, I joined Kevin Lainez of The Comic Book Revolution to discuss DC Comics’ 52, the landmark maxiseries from DC Comics in 2005. This series is a major touchstone of mine as it...