Happy almost summer everyone! I, for one, can’t wait until the weather gets a little bit nicer and I can sit outside for hours with my stack of books and comics. This past month, while I’ve still be stuck inside I’ve been trying to catch up on a few new to me BOOM! series like…
4 Reasons to Love Andy Kubert’s X-Men Covers
When Andy Kubert took over the reins on X-Men and Uncanny X-Men during my ’90s comic collecting days, I developed a love-hate relationship with his artwork. I was always frustrated by the same face syndrome he displayed in his art and by his weirdly disproportionate appendages, with knees that seemed to take up far more…
The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 5: Enter Count Dracula
The 1890s were a bountiful decade for vampire literature. This was the period that saw the publication of James Maclaren Cobban’s Master of his Fate (1890), E. E. Baldwin’s The Strange Story of Dr. Senex (1891), Cora Lin Daniels’ Sardia (1891), Julien Gordon’s Vampires (1891), Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire (1897), and Thaddeus…
