I came across this “100 Issues Ago” panel in an old JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA and thought I’d tidy it up and re-purpose it. If one month = one issue, what was I reading 100 Issues Ago?
And lo, the FLASHPOINT spin-offs have landed! I picked up 34 issues from DC this month, of which 20 were FLASHPOINT related miniseries or one-offs. This one – FRANKENSTEIN AND THE CREATURES OF THE UNKNOWN – was one of my favourites as it took Grant Morrison’s version of Frankenstein from his SEVEN SOLDIERS miniseries and had fun with it.
This was also my first exposure to Jeff Lemire’s writing and I became something of a fan, picking up the later FRANKENSTEIN: AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E. series by him as well as others.
Pretty much everything else by DC was wrapping up – TEEN TITANS was being produced twice monthly in what seemed like a desperate attempt to reach issue #100 before the New 52 reboot!
Wait a second . . . didn’t we have one of these just last week?
Yeah, we did . . . because I’ve been doing them wrong for the last year or more. Since I started these 100 Issues Ago posts, I’ve been subtracting 100 months from the current date but then looking at the comics that have the resulting cover date. As the majority of my collection from this time is DC, this means I’m highlighting issues that are two months older than I should be looking at.
Last week I looked at FLASHPOINT #1 because November 2019 minus 100 months is July 2011 . . . but I actually bought FLASHPOINT #1 in May 2011 when it was released.
So this week and next you get two extra posts to bridge the comics I bought in June and July 2011 so that when we get to December 2019 and I subtract 100 months, we’ll be looking at comics I bought in August 2011, rather than those with the cover date of August 2011.
Crisis on Earth-Prime 