Author: Gary

100 Issues Ago January 2010

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?

This was the teaser/taster issue for Neonomicon, the continuation of Alan Moore’s Lovecraftian story The Courtyard. It had about 8 or so pages from the first issue of the mini-series and damn it was good – enough to make me eagerly await the continuation even more than I had been since reading The Courtyard some six or seven years before then.

And what made it even better was the eventual follow up to Neonomicon in the form of Providence.

My views on Moore have changed over the years but his Lovecraftian epic still holds up and is well worth reading even if you’ve never read a single story by Lovecraft.

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn, my friends.

Aw-Qward . . .

From Guy Gardner: Reborn #2, August 1992:

This was after Hal Jordan had kicked Guy out of the Green Lantern Corps, forcing him to find another power source. He’d gone to Qward, with Lobo in tow, looking to get a yellow power ring just like the one the Qwardians had made for Sinestro all those years before.

Trouble is . . .

That’s right – Sinestro’s ring used up all the Qwardamite on the planet which means it can never be duplicated!

Oh, hang on . . .

You Are My Internet People And I’m Touching You!

There’s the proof – Smithd395 said it and it can’t be taken back.

You – yes, you – are MY internet people.

And I’m touching you.

No, not like that . . .

It’s Coming!

And we’re off – the next series I shall be annotating due to overwhelming no demand, is the much derided 1988 crossover, Millennium.

If you thought Bloodlines was bad . . . well, you were right.

Let’s see how we get on with Steve “No amount of exposition is too much trouble” Engelhart’s magnum opus, shall we?