A Light in the Attic/Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein (A & W) HarperCollins My elementary school really pounded Shel Silverstein’s poems into us. I have vivid memories of teachers reading bits from A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends to us (along with The Giving Tree, one of the saddest stories…
Nostalgia Nexus: Fire and Luck
Excalibur Series Chris Claremont (W) Alan Davis (A) Marvel So, I started reading Excalibur mainly due to a girl crush on Rachel Summers. She was bad ass, clad in red leather and spikes, with the power to devour worlds. But add in Kitty Pride, her dragon Lockheed, and Nightcrawler? Yeah. I’m there.
Nostalgia Nexus
Rom: Space Knight (early issues) Written by Bill Mantil and drawn by Sal Buscema Oh, Rom. You and your melodramatic rants over your lost humanity, your inability to have children, your desire to get into Brandy’s pants. I would never imagined a comic based on a badly designed toy could capture the emotional range of…
Nostalgia Nexus
Looky Here: A New Bi-Weekly Blurb Nostalgia Nexus is where the ladies of WWAC drop in to discuss the books and comics books they loved/hated when they were kids. Enjoy. X-Men, Various Authors Oh, so, so many ones that got on my hate side. Forge comes to mind, having been through Life-Death I and II with…
