Happy 2025!
We are STILL SELLING COMICS!
It’s hard to believe it’s almost five years since the retail part
of AABC closed!
We are still selling early comics on eBay weekly
(seller AMGIROUX)
and through mail order.
And we still have hundreds of thousands of comics
to sell, so feel free to email us with your
want list:Alan @AllAboutComics.com
Author Archives: Phil
Phil's Reviews — Stuff I Read and Put Back #159
Daytripper #3 (of 10) — Creators: Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba I see McDonald’s was offering a Super Bowl deal: 50 Chicken McNuggets for $10. That might actually sound attractive as a one-time thing, but what if it was available every day? What if it was the only thing on their menu? What does this have to do with Daytripper? Well, the first issue was about a twentysomething stuck in neutral, who has a small-scale epiphany and then dies randomly and senselessly. Kind of depressing, sure, but the Ba/Moon art, and the window into South American culture, balanced that out … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Comments Off on Phil's Reviews — Stuff I Read and Put Back #159
Phil's Reviews — Stuff I Bought #158
Milestone Forever #1 (of 2) — Writer: Dwayne McDuffie; Art: John Paul Leon, Mark Bright and Romeo Tanghal The Leon art is a framing sequence wrapped around the main story penciled by Bright, and that stars Icon, Rocket, the Blood Syndicate, Static and a few others — it’s a fun callback to the early Milestone stories, when the imprint’s urban pizzazz was a breath of fresh air, and McDuffie had a Jim Shooter-like creative control over the whole line that brought all the titles together and gave them a consistent, edgy voice. The only criticism here is with the covers, … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Comments Off on Phil's Reviews — Stuff I Bought #158
Phil's Reviews — Stuff I Read and Put Back #158
Scalped #34 — Writer: Jason Aaron; Art: R. M. Guerra Ghost Rider: Heaven’s On Fire #6 (of 6) — Writer: Jason Aaron; Art: Roland Boschi Wolverine: Weapon X #10 — Writer: Jason Aaron; Art: C. P. Smith Three books by Jason Aaron, who’s very close to being mainstream comics’ Next Big Writer, and while I didn’t actually buy any of them, I wouldn’t make fun of you if you did — they were all entertaining. Scalped was his breakthrough book, a high-concept noir mashup — 100 Bullets on the rez, all hardscrabble lives and casino-fueled menace — and now, three … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Leave a comment
Ask the Professor #32 — Three Recent Questions
As usual, the Professor’s let a few questions pile up, so let’s check the mailbag and get ’em answered. The first, from Jan. 17th, asks a math question: how many star wars comic books are there? Answering his one gives the Professor a chance to plug one of his favorite websites, the Grand Comics Database (at www.comics.org), which offers cover scans and story credits for just about every comic book ever published. Typing “Star Wars” into their search engine yields over a thousand individual issues — but if we limit ourselves to American editions (Marvel and Dark Horse), and eliminate … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History
2 Comments
Phil's Reviews — Stuff I Bought #157
Kick-Ass #8 ( of 8 ) — Writer: Mark Millar; Pencils: John Romita Jr.; Inks: Tom Palmer Yes, it’s over the top, and it has those annoying Millarisms in the dialog and plot (everyone, no matter their background or personality, has the same little hitches in their sentence phrasing, and his sad-sack characters never, ever catch a romantic break), but hey: it’s also been consistently, gorgeously drawn, and you have to admit that this issue’s finale, wherein two kids take on an army of Mafiosi, is a lot of fun; this might not have been the best comic to come … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Comments Off on Phil's Reviews — Stuff I Bought #157
