Yes, it’s another Post of Miscellany for you to enjoy, for varying values of “enjoy.” PART THE FIRST: Just to follow up on my 2024 Free Comic Book Day post-mortem, there was some concern th...
https://www.progressiveruin.com/2024/05/08/old-timer-mike-here/
Another big change to the Superman mythos made in John Byrne’s 1986 reboot mini-series Man of Steel was the bustin’ up of the long friendship between Supes and the Dark Knight his own self, B...
https://www.progressiveruin.com/2024/05/01/id-bought-worlds-finest-300/
More specifics about the actual content of the 1980s Superman reboot will come in future posts (yes, it’s continuing into next week). You can find the previous posts under the newly-created “...
https://www.progressiveruin.com/2024/04/26/my-british-accent-is-impeccable/
So last time I talked a bit about the first issue of John Byrne’s Superman revamp, and how it felt to encounter it as it was happening, after having read Superman comics prior to this and witne...
https://www.progressiveruin.com/2024/04/24/orange-is-the-new-luthor/
I know I’ve talked about this before, but bear with me for a moment. I will hear modern day criticisms of Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC’s continuity-changing mini-series from 1985, where it i...
https://www.progressiveruin.com/2024/04/22/and-that-he-played-football/
So I had a copy of this comic fall into my hands the other day, Action Comics #485 (1976): …which caught my eye as it was the Whitman variant, and would be worth a little money if this copy had...
https://www.progressiveruin.com/2023/10/11/kryptonite-well-maybe-a-little-more/
So I forget where I saw it referenced, but somewhere out there someone had mentioned the 1996 Silver Surfer/Superman one-shot, which got me to wondering if I still had it. I had bought nearly all...
So one of my regular customers popped into the store the other to show off a couple of his goodies from his collection. He wasn’t interested in selling, despite my generous offer of a nickel ap...
https://www.progressiveruin.com/2022/10/03/to-give-away-the-secret-would-really-spoil-the-fun/
Yup, I’m still addressing comments left on this site from nearly two months ago. What can I tell you? So Daniel sez “Byrne’s first meeting of Superman and Luthor in Mos #4 was soooo much mo...
https://www.progressiveruin.com/2022/09/26/hair-today-gone-tomorrow/
Hullo folks, hullo! Bully the Little Stuffed Bull here, America’s only stuffed bull comics blogger, sliding into some sort of Progressive Ruin towards which all of us are careening madly. I can...
https://www.progressiveruin.com/2022/06/06/progressive-bully-1-eye-superman/