The Monologues
In the introduction to the Bruce Willis revisionist super-hero movie 'Unbreakable', it is stated that the average comic book collector owns 3,312 comics. I don't have a clue how many I own to date, but I'll admit it's probably around that neighbourhood.
In 2007, for a number of reasons, both creative and economical, I drastically cut down the number of new, mainstream comics I was purchasing, and instead looked back to review some of the comics in my 15+ year collection. Many of these I had not read in the decade or so since I initially purchased them. From Tintin to Preacher, McFarlane to McLoud, these were the comics which inspired the creativity in me, overtly and subconsciously.
The notes which follow are a record of this review, a retrospective roadmap of my comics collection, from 1990-2007. You can browse the entries by date below, or by title from the Alphabetical index.
9th Mar 2007: prologue
1st Apr 2007: Tintin
9th Apr 2007: Appleseed
16th May 2007: Captain America
6th June 2007: Mage: The Hero Discovered
6th July 2007: Trinity
25th September 2007: The Comic Relief Comic
5th October 2007: Give Me Liberty
18th October 2007: The Light Brigade
8th July 2008: 7 Soldiers of Victory
5th May 2010: U.S. War Machine
31st May 2010: We3
13th June 2010: Secret Wars
22nd June 2010: Pride Of Baghdad
30th June 2010: Legion
15th November 2010: Super Hero Wedding Wars!
15th November 2010: Super Hero Wedding Wars! - The Big Two
22nd November 2010: Super Hero Wedding Wars! - The Schwartz Weddings
30th November 2010: Super Hero Wedding Wars! - Earth's Mightiest Weddings
7th December 2010: Super Hero Wedding Wars! - The Incredible Weddings
15th December 2010: Super Hero Wedding Wars! - The Uncanny Weddings
21st December 2010: Super Hero Wedding Wars! - The Inhuman Weddings
2nd January 2011: Super Hero Wedding Wars! - The (Other) Super Weddings
9th January 2011: Super Hero Wedding Wars! - The Amazing Weddings
8th February 2011: X-Men - Lee & Kirby
1st June 2011: X-Men - Claremont, Cockrum & Byrne
4th Aug 2011: Wolverine in the '80s
