Bizarro Back Issues: Crisis Of The Calendar Man! (1985)
The Batman of the '80s was certainly skewing darker than the previous eras, but that was also a time where all the leftovers from the Silver Age were still more or less directing the story. That's how...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: The Flash Against Vandal Savage's War Against Drugs! (1991)
Superhero comics are always gonna be weird, even when the aesthetics of the time they occupy are trying to lean hard into more Serious Issues. Like, say, that time in 1991 when Vandal Savage tried to...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: Battling The Scourge Of Police Corruption In The Form Of...
Convention season is in full swing, and that means that I'm spending a lot of time digging through dollar bins and picking up cheap back issues. The thing is, though, I'm not really looking for the...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: The Murderous Wintertime Wrath Of Veronica Lodge (1985)
The thing you need to understand about Riverdale is that people there don't react to things with the normal levels of emotions. I mean, that's pretty obvious, right? The entire town --- the entire...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: The Martian Manhunter Against Zeus, The Crime King Of...
If you read through enough back issues of Detective Comics, you'll run across a guy who seems an awful lot like a rough draft for Maxie Zeus. The only difference is that instead of fighting Batman,...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: Green Arrow Plus Aqua (1959)
Last week, I wrote about "Manhunt on Land," an Aquaman story where he drove around in a pickup truck full of fish to track down a sea crook who had taken to land for the express purpose of avoiding...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: Joker TV! (1967)
You know how every now and then, you'll see a cover on an old comic, and it'll stick with you even if you don't actually read the issue? That happened to me with Detective Comics #365. Ever since I...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: Betty, Veronica, And the Dark Sorcery That Is Love!...
It's Valentine's Day, and that means that our thoughts here at ComicsAlliance are turning inevitably to our favorite romances from comics. Well. Maybe that's not the right word, since I'm not sure that...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: Who Took The Super Out Of Superman?! (1976)
If you've been reading the current Superman titles, then you're no doubt aware that things have gotten pretty weird lately. Superman and Lois Lane are the characters from two reboots ago, and Clark...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: The Surprisingly Non-Erotic Adventures Of Kinks Mason...
Say what you will about the comics of the first Golden Age boom, but they are almost alarmingly direct, with a tenuous-at-best relationship with the concept of subtlety. Such is the case with Fight...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: Crisis Of The Calendar Man! (1985)
The Batman of the '80s was certainly skewing darker than the previous eras, but that was also a time where all the leftovers from the Silver Age were still more or less directing the story. That's how...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: The Flash Against Vandal Savage's War Against Drugs! (1991)
Superhero comics are always gonna be weird, even when the aesthetics of the time they occupy are trying to lean hard into more Serious Issues. Like, say, that time in 1991 when Vandal Savage tried to...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: Battling The Scourge Of Police Corruption In The Form Of...
Convention season is in full swing, and that means that I'm spending a lot of time digging through dollar bins and picking up cheap back issues. The thing is, though, I'm not really looking for the...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: The Winter Wrath Of Veronica Lodge (1985)
The thing you need to understand about Riverdale is that people there don't react to things with the normal levels of emotions. I mean, that's pretty obvious, right? The entire town --- the entire...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: The Martian Manhunter Versus Zeus
If you read through enough back issues of Detective Comics, you'll run across a guy who seems an awful lot like a rough draft for Maxie Zeus. The only difference is that instead of fighting Batman,...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: The Flash Vs Vandal Savage Vs Drugs
Superhero comics are always gonna be weird, even when the aesthetics of the time they occupy are trying to lean hard into more Serious Issues. Like, say, that time in 1991 when Vandal Savage tried to...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: Josie And The Souls Of The Damned
Last week, Archie Comics announced that a new Josie and the Pussycats comic was on the way, and there are a lot of different directions the creators could take it in. They could head back to the...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: The Superman / Superboy War! (1963)
If you're anything like me you're probably a little mystified by the current state of the Superman books. As fun as those stories might be, trying to figure out how the younger Superman of the New 52...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: 'The Corps!' And The Comic That Never Was
I've been writing about weird old comics on the Internet for well over a decade now, and there are two things that you really need to take away from that. First, I am old, and never have I felt the...
View ArticleBizarro Back Issues: Jimmy Olsen Is... Spartacus! (1973)
So hey, you know how Jimmy Olsen sometimes runs into a mystical jewel called the Star of Cathay that sends his consciousness back in time to his past life as famous 13th century merchant and explorer...
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