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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 2, 2022 16:17:23 GMT -5
Bought in January 1992:
Cerebus #154: Mothers & Daughters continues, and we get the feeling that we're building up to something big!
Conan the barbarian #254 : a sequel to SSoC#39, published in 1979! True Conan fans have long memories.
Hellblazer #51, with the haunted laundromat! An unconventional but witty story. I think it had art by Sean Philips, who would become my favourite Constantine artist eventually (although I didn’t like his art at first).
Legion of super-heroes #27, continuing very long story arcs that would deserve the name “graphic novels”. I loved how the title retroactively "planted" plot elements a thousand years earlier, in the modern-day DC universe, thanks to the Legion-related titles set in the XX century.
Savage sword of Conan #195, sending Conan to Hyborian age Japan! Not that different from other places, admittedly.
Uncanny X-Men #286. I don’t quite remember the book, honestly.
X-Men #6, with characters striking poses. Very nice art. Althoiugh I don't like Psylocke and I don't like Sabretooth. But could that Jim Lee fellow draw cheesecake and technology or what?
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Post by berkley on Jan 2, 2022 16:44:25 GMT -5
Bought in January 1992: Cerebus #154: Mothers & Daughters continues, and we get the feeling that we're building up to something big! Conan the barbarian #254 : a sequel to SSoC#39, published in 1979! True Conan fans have long memories. Hellblazer #51, with the haunted laundromat! An unconventional but witty story. I think it had art by Sean Philips, who would become my favourite Constantine artist eventually (although I didn’t like his art at first). Legion of super-heroes #27, continuing very long story arcs that would deserve the name “graphic novels”. I loved how the title retroactively "planted" plot elements a thousand years earlier, in the modern-day DC universe, thanks to the Legion-related titles set in the XX century. Savage sword of Conan #195, sending Conan to Hyborian age Japan! Not that different from other places, admittedly. Uncanny X-Men #286. I don’t quite remember the book, honestly. X-Men #6, with characters striking poses. Very nice art. Althoiugh I don't like Psylocke and I don't like Sabretooth. But could that Jim Lee fellow draw cheesecake and technology or what? This was during Roy Thomas's second run on Conan the Barbarian I see - how was it?
edit: never mnd, I just saw you answered the same question on the previous page.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 3, 2022 16:11:39 GMT -5
January 1992
Aliens:Genocide #3, 4
Batman #475
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #28
Batman Versus Predator #2
Death's Head II #1
Deathlok #9
Detective Comics #641
Dreadlands #3
Ghost Rider #23
New Warriors #20, 21
Sensational She-Hulk #37
Silver Surfer #62, 63
Spider-Man #20
Warlock and the Infinity Watch #2
Wolverine #52
Wonder Man #7
X-Men #6
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Post by SJNeal on Feb 7, 2022 23:10:13 GMT -5
February 1992:
Action Comics #675
Adventures of Superman #489
Aquaman #5
Armageddon: Inferno #1
Flash #61
Green Lantern #23
Hawkworld #22
Justice League Spectacular #1
Star Trek: TNG #30
Superman #66
Superman: Man of Steel #10
Swamp Thing: Dark Genesis TPB
Alpha Flight #107
Avengers #346
Avengers West Coast #81
Captain America #399
Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #40
Iron Man #279
Quasar #33
Thor #446
Uncanny X-Men #287
Wonder Man #8
X-Men #7
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 8, 2022 1:21:42 GMT -5
Man, I was on the wrong month, entirely.....
I'll have to get back to this....
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 8, 2022 22:44:53 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 9, 2022 9:18:17 GMT -5
Purchased in February 1992
By that time, I had one year left before leaving Canada for Germany and dropping comics entirely for a few years. I was buying fewer and fewer titles. but things like Sandman, Hellblazer, Cerebus and the Conan titles were a delight!
Conan the barbarian #255, in which we meet those giant dead dudes from Conan #9 once again. Travelling back to Cimmeria after dreaming of a disaster occurring in his homeland, Conan and Roy Thomas revisit many of the places seen in the first two years of the title.
Silver age classics :
reprinting
Action comics #252 (introducing Supergirl)
Adventure comics #247 (introducing the Legion)
Detective comics #225 (first Martian Manhunter or something?...)
Detective comics #327 (introducing the "new style" Batman)
Green Lantern #76 : (first Neal Adams GL/GA)
House of secrets #92 (first Swamp Thing)
Showcase #4 (first Barry Allen Flash)
I didn't get the Brave and the Bold #28 issue, since I was never a JLA fan, nor the Showcase #22, since I had that story in a Blue Ribbon Digest., nor the Sugar and Spice one (I didn't even know who they were, probably) Nevertheless, I was very happy with this type of reprints: comics looking like comics should, at a very affordable price.
Hellblazer #52 : More of the early Garth Ennis goodness on this title.
Legion of super-heroes #28, in which a hero DIES! (But then, that was par for the course with that title). A tragic, moving story to be sure, but by that point I was starting to wonder if there were enough Legionnaires left for the mag to last more than a few months!
Savage sword of Conan #196, and one of my favourite SSoC issues during Roy's second run. It has all the elements of a great original Conan story! It also ties in quite well with half a dozen older issues and Robert Howard tales.
Sandman #36, continuing A Game of You. My least favourite Sandman story arcs, but still heads and shoulders above most comics produced at the time.
Uncanny X-Men #287 : haven't re-read those issues in a long while. I guess we were still establishing Bishop as a new character.
X-Men #7 : Probably good Jim Lee art, but I hated the entire concept of memory implants for Wolverine and I hated Omega Red even more.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 9, 2022 12:55:50 GMT -5
I have about two more years till I started actively collecting, so these have all been bought as back issues. February 1992 Aliens:Hive #1 This series I liked just because I felt Kelly Jones' art was much better suited to Aliens than Batman which he was penciling when I started actively buying comics. Amazing Spider-Man #361 Because I have all the other issues of Carnage Unleashed. This was actually the last one I acquired and then read the whole story. Batman Versus Predator #3 I bought a lot more of the prestige format Batman books. I got hooked with Elseworlds at first. I am more of a fan of Aliens than Predator, but hey what isn't cool about the greatest detective fighting the greatest predator. Clive Barker's Hellraiser #12 I found all the issues I now have of this series in a box (the only box) at a sport card shop with my brother in law. They were all a dollar so I thought why not. While the movies declined with each successor, I was more interested if the books talked about the Centebites, who are far more interesting to me than the actual premise of most of the movies. Death's Head II #2 I like Liam Sharp's and it had the X-Men on it. So glad I did. Yeah he is a real 90's character but I still enjoyed it. I bought this mini series and one ongoing series. Detective Comics #642 I don't remember when I got this, but it was a Scarface story, so why not? Ghost Rider #24 I got hooked on Ghost Rider from the first issue I picked up off the shelf. I am pretty sure it was the X-Men crossover where they and GR fight the Brood. Legends of the Dark Knight #29 Never can go wrong with a LOTK book. I enjoyed about every story I read in this series up until I quit comics for a bit around issue #150. I've been meaning to bite the bullet and get the rest of the series soon. New Warriors #22 Bagley art? Heck yeah! Who are these kids? Sensational She-Hulk #38 This issue like 99% of this series I own I got in one fell swoop at the same LCS. My wife was having surgery that I could not go in with her. It would take a couple of hours before it was over so I decided to go find some reading material. Found the comic shop and bought all the issues they had. By the time I got back the hospital they were just wheeling my wife in. And while she slept I read. Great series. Though I could of better artists to do it than Bryne.  Silver Surfer #64 Got hooked on SS after reading Infinity Gauntlet, so I just started buying up SS issues. Especially with Ron Lim art. Swamp Thing:Dark Genesis TPB I have this exact reprint. And am thankful. Even back when I had much more disposable income, original issues were still expensive. Warlock and the Infinity Watch #3 It's Warlock .... it's a no-brainer. Well for me anyway. Wolverine #53 I really got into Wolverine for awhile. Now I don't know if some of these books would be hit or miss now. I know the select stories I like and read them again on occasions. But I've never went through reading the series again. I stopped around #130 or so, as it wasn't keeping my attention. Wonder Man #8 I liked this series so much. I acquired two issues when I bought Galactic Storm (?) story line that was in a bunch of Marvel titles. It was all packaged together at the LCS as a set. I thought who is this guy? I kind of like him. And I really liked Jeff Johnson's art. It's a really fun series that most of the time doesn't take itself too seriously. X-Men #7 Unlike RR, I like Omega Red. Well okay AoA Omega Red. But since I hadn't ever read any 616 Omega Red I went ahead and kept buying back issues of the series. I don't remember much about so I guess I could go back and read it again. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 2, 2022 1:01:42 GMT -5
                                    That isn't just a black blot there; that is Solar #10, where the narrative came back around to where it began (there were two narratives, one in the past, one in the present, after Solar travelled forward in time). I had kind of ignored the past narrative until this came out and I could read it all in chronological order, to make better sense of it. Skull & Bones was ignored at the time; but, it was an interesting little mini, from Ed Hannigan. A Soviet Spetsnaz terror soldier, who became disillusioned in the Afghan war and came home to political machinations. Set at the end of the Soviet Union, the main character falls in with a group of dissidents, out to foster change. Yeah; it seemed like things were changing for the better, then. Who knew that we would be back where we were? Warlock reprints the earlier Starlin stories, leading up to the Avengers and Thing issues, which concluded the storyline. Warlock and the Infinity Watch picked up after Infinity Gauntlet. I didn't stick with Infinity Watch for too long. Second Lobo mini, in the days before he was completely shoved down our throats. It was still funny here (for the most part). Flash foward a month or two and I was at Heroes Con and every other person we talked to, who worked at DC, was working on a Lobo project. Thankfully, most didn't come about. Quantum Leap has Sam leap into the 1950s quiz show scandals. Nomad was the new regular series, with Clarke Hawbaker on art. Not sure why he drifted from comics (other than better pay); but, he was a really good talent. met him once at a small local con. Really nice guy. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 2, 2022 1:26:44 GMT -5
March 1992:
Hate #8: I really liked the first 15 issues or so of Hate - by far the most I've ever enjoyed anything by Peter Bagge. I plane to re-read them soon and then go on to finish the rest of the series, curious what 'll think of them this time around
Eightball #8 - Eightball rivalled Love and Rockets and the various other Hernandez brothers series that followed it as my favourite comics series of the 1990s.
skimmning through Mike's Newsstand for that month, I wish now that I had bought the Miller/Darrow Hard-boiled, but I remember why I didn't: the price per issue ($8.95 Canadian, if I'm reading that correctly?) seemed astronomical to me at the time (Hate was $2.25 and Eightball $2.95, again, if I'm seeing those prices accurately).
I can also see why I wasn't following Marvel or DC: the covers just didn't appeal and my eyes used to just slide right over them without really taking them in - though I see that on the Dr. Strange cover this month Wolverine - hell, Wolverine's arm - is bigger than the title character.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 2, 2022 10:06:50 GMT -5
March 1992... Life was really, really good in 1992. Things had finally started working in the lab, and my wife and I had comfortably settled in Quebec city. The following year, we'd move to Germany... In part because we realized we were so comfortable that if we didn't step out of our comfort zone, we'd probably stay stuck in it for good! (I would also stop reading comics for a few years, because US comics in Heidelberg cost an arm and a leg). But in the meantime...
Cerebus #155 and 156, with the story arc Mothers & Daughters taking us back into the thick of things after the long digressions that were Jaka's Story and Melmoth.
Conan #256, in which Conan makes his slow way back to Cimmeria. This story arc would see the return of Kulan Gath, a two-bit sorceror killed in issue #15, and whose claim to fame since then was that he had been brought back in non-Conan titles (Marvel Team-Up and X-Men). Unfortunately, he'd show up again and again and again. A bad case of continuity overuse.
Excalibur #50 : can't remember what happened in it, but since it was an anniversary issue, I went for it.
Hard Boiled #3 : What a weird, weird book that was. Geoff Darrow provided insanely intricate pages that were a joy to scrutinize. How to define the aesthetics of this comic? Cyberpunkish Neo-Chrysler Art Deco?
Hellblazer #53 : As I recall, it had to do with Prince Charles being possessed by a demon (the same one that had possessed Jack the Ripper?)... Garth Ennis definitely doesn't strike me as a fan of the royal family!!! Another great issue.
Legion of super-heroes #29 : The Dominators' reign on Earth is about to come to an end. I still love the format of this book (it's more like a novel than anything else), but while I appreciate the presence of old characters, I'm not such a big fan of showing the Legion of Substitute Heroes as absolute bad asses and the regular LSH as a bunch of mostly whiny losers. Note to writers everywhere: no one enjoys superheroes whining and being depressed all the time. A dip into despair is only useful if it launches them into greater determination.
Sandman #37 : A Game of You continues.
Savage Sword of Conan #197 : Roy Thomas is at his best when he adapts a non-Conan Robert E. Howard story; this one, taken from a Wild Bill Clanton tale, brings Conan back to the city of Messantia and piratical shenanigans. There's a stolen statue, a hidden message, inscrutable Orientals and all the goofy, pulpy goodness of a story published in Spicy Adventures!
Tarzan the warrior #1 : a decidedly different take on the Jungle Lord, much closer to science fiction/space fantasy than usual. Tarzan wears clothes, for one! In this series, we learn that the overabundance of lost cities in Africa is actually a side-effect of Tarzan's ability to detect dimensional rifts that take him to parallel worlds.
Uncanny X-Men #288, Uncanny X-Men annual #16, X-Factor annual #7, X-Men #8, X-Men annual #1... I hadn't weaned myself from the X-titles yet, but things like the "Shattershort" event running through the X-annuals weren't doing much to keep me aboard. While I did enjoy Longshot as a character when he was first introduced in his limited series, his use in X-Men had been a let-down and I couldn't have cared less about Rob Liefeld's Shatterstar or the return of Mojoworld.
Warlock #1 : reprinting the start of the Magus saga. I already had these stories in French digests and as back-up features in Fantasy Masterpieces, but it was nice to have them presented as one series. (That being said, the French B&W version remains my favourite. Colour didn't improve the art one bit).
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Post by SJNeal on Mar 4, 2022 20:40:53 GMT -5
March 1992:
Action Comics #676
Adventures of Superman #490
Aquaman #6
Armageddon: Inferno #2
Flash #62, 63
Green Lantern #24
Hawkworld #23
Justice League America #61, 62 (most people hate it, but I have a soft spot for Jurgens' JLA)
Justice League Europe #37, 38 (ditto this era of JLE)
Star Trek: TNG #31
Superman #67
Superman: Man of Steel #11
Wonder Woman Special #1 (kicking off one of my all-time favorite WW runs!)
Alpha Flight #108
Avengers #347
Avengers West Coast #82
Captain America #400
Ghost Rider #25 (the gimmick cover hooked me, but I wouldn't pick up another issue until the Midnight Sons era.)
Incredible Hulk #393 (another gimmick cover; this issue made even less sense than the GR one.)
Quasar #34
Uncanny X-Men #288
Uncanny X-Men Annual #16
Wonder Man #9
X-Men #8
X-Men Annual #1
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 2, 2022 20:23:02 GMT -5
                                         I can't recall how long I picked up Now Comics' Green Hornet. Issue #8 came ot this month; but, I'm not sure if I continued after the first 6 issues. I know I had ditched the Justice League titles, by this point. Archer & Armstrong was my favorite book from Valiant. It debuts here, as does the Unity crossover. After Unity, I started dropping books, once Shooter was gone. I continued with A&A, until BWS left, and Eternal Warrior, up to that point. I forget where I ditched Shadowman. I stuck with Solar and X-O, for a bit, after Shooter. We are also at the point where I parted company with the Impact books, except Legend of the SHIELD. I continued it to the end; but, the reasons I had been reading the others (Tom Lyle, Mike Parobeck) were gone from Comet and The Fly. I also parted company with the Superman titles, pretty quickly, though not for long, as I went back for Doomsday. I dropped them again, after the Return had wound down. LODK has James Robinson on fire, as he revamps the Cavalier, into something great. best Batman book on the stands, until The Batman Adventures starts up. I tried Black Condor, but I think I only got the first 2 or 3 issues. Not what I was expecting or wanted. Liked him better in Starman. DHP still rocks, as does Quantum Leap and John Byrne's Next Men. Steed & Mrs Peel was late, a reflection of eclipse's cash flow situation (like James Bond). My comic book buying is about to take a hit as next month brings a big change in my life. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 4, 2022 15:09:49 GMT -5
April 1992
Conan #257 : Too much Kulan Gath. The oft-resurrected wizard is wearing his duds from Marvel team-up and X-Men instead of his outfit from CtB 14-15.
Conan: the ravagers out of time graphic novel. Nice art by Docherty and Alcala, introducing my favourite Red Sonja outfit (one that's actually practical). This story revisits some old ground (a common feature during Roy's second tenure on the Conan mags), as we meet the gold-skinned wizard Rotath and his giant slug once again; we also get to see King Kull and Conan meet again.
Ghost Rider #26, a crossover with the X-Men. Oh, Lord, the Brood should have disappeared for good after the Coati destroyed their world in X-Men #166. They were never good after that.
Hellblazer #54, with more about Prince Charles being possessed by Jack the Ripper!
Infinity War #1. Bought it because it had Starlin and Warlock, and I'm not sure I got the second issue. Like the Brood, Warlock should have stayed dead.
Legion of super-heroes #30, with a nice wink-wink-nudge-nudge reference to the Fantastic Four. Those dastardly Dominators... they really plyed us Earthlings for chumps, didn't they?
Savage sword of Conan #198. Another excellent issue from SSoC's revival as a mag remembering Robert E. Howard's work! We learn more about shipboard dynamics on the Red Hand, Captain Strombannis ship from The Treasure of Tranicos, and get to see young Valeria stand her own in a world of bloodthirsty pirates. Arrrrh!
Sandman #38, in which we delve into East European lore, werewolves and the heart of Koshei the deathless. Lovely stuff!
X-Men #289, and Whilce Portacio is still drawing beautifully! I love how many of his pages don't look like anything we've seen before in terms of composition.
X-Men #9. I think it's tied into the Ghost Rider issue above. As I recall, for all his wizardry when it comes to cheesecake or technology, Jim Lee drew rather boring members of the Brood. They looked like reptiles instead of insects.
Obviously, I was not spending much on comics at the time. Had I known back then how good the Valiant titles were, things might have been different.
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Post by SJNeal on Apr 4, 2022 21:04:40 GMT -5
April 1992:
Action Comics #677
Adventures of Superman #491
Aquaman #7
Armageddon: Inferno #3
Black Condor #1
Flash #64, 65
Green Lantern #25
Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #1
Green Lantern Mosaic #1 (the early 90's were a good time for GL fans!)
Justice League America #63
Justice League Europe #39
Justice League Quarterly #7
Star Trek: TNG #32
Superman #68
Superman: Man of Steel #12
Wonder Woman #63
Alpha Flight #109
Alpha Flight Special #1
Avengers #348
Avengers West Coast #83
Dr. Strange #42
Dr. Strange Annual #2
Silver Sable & the Wild Pack #1
Uncanny X-Men #289
Wonder Man #10
X-Men #9
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