Originally published May 8, 1992
Category: But I Digress…
Bat-Men Previews
Originally published May 29, 1992
Behind Closed Doors…
Originally published June 5, 1992
(The following is a transcript of a super-secret Marvel comics spin-control meeting. Since it was difficult to determine which executives were speaking, they are simply identified by letters.)
Blast from the Past
Originally published May 15, 1992
And now, due to absolutely no demand at all, we present another installment of:
USELESS STORIES
A couple of years ago, as a tie-in with DC’s “Invasion” storyline, artist James Fry and I produced one of the single silliest comics it’s ever been our joy to put out: The Blasters. The utter antithesis of every serious space-saga ever produced, “Blasters” featured the adventures of humans who had, as a result of alien experiments, developed super-powers. Originally developed by James and Robert Loren Fleming, I was brought in and told that DC wanted to go in “a different direction” with them.
Bleepin’ Comics
Originally published May 22, 1992
Words can be dangerous and tricky things, open to all sorts of reactions that one never anticipates.
No matter how long this column has been around, that’s a fact of life that I’m reminded of with amazing frequency. Yet the most recent reminder of that truism came to me, not as a result of this column, but from Marvel Comics.
New format intro; Basic Instinct observation
BUT I DIGRESS, Originally published May 1, 1992
So here we are.
The first issue of the much-awaited new, new new format of “The Comics Buyer’s Guide.”
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Glasgow Comic Art Convention, Part 2
Originally published April 24, 1992
And so, as more love letters are doubtlessly winging their way to CBG demanding my head, merely because I have the temerity to give Image the same consideration that I do Marvel and DC (notice that no one ever gets mad when I criticize the Big Guys), I blissfully return to the bonnie, bonnie banks (those are the twin sisters of Marvel sales honcho Lou Banks) of Scotland and my trip to the Glasgow Comic Art Convention:
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