This is one of the earliest books that I owned featuring the FF. It's the two parter where Daredevil helps them battle Dr. Doom. The catch is, that the team has no powers. I love this book also because it has a third story that pits Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch against the Human torch and the Thing. It's a reprint from a Strange tales book. 

In memory of the passing of the great Trina Robbins, I highly recommend any of her books that talk about women in comics. Amazingly informative and a must for everyone's bookshelves. A Century of Women Cartoonists, from late 1800s to the 1990s, Robbins gives us the history of those pioneers that were overshadowed and some you never heard of. It's an amazing read, like of her works.

My pick would be one of the MGN that really wowed me when I first read it. It' a great non-superhero suspense stroy. It reminds me of the those forbidding 70's no one knows about films that has all of like 3 actors in the movie. It bare bones, no frills story about the colder side of humanity. Those movies that you walk away from the theater looking over your shoulder and wishing you hadn't parked so far away from the theater entrance. Oh and it was based on a true story.

Arena GN #1 (1989) Writer/Artist Bruce Jones

I think my favorite MGN was Neuromancer, really sucks that they never continued the story for various reasons. It was a really good adaptation, probably only bested by the BBC Radio Play


Thought I knew what I wanted to post about, but after some soul searching, I knew it had to be Super Mario Adventures

I got my original copy years ago at the clearance section at a local Walmart and loved it, but it unfortunately got water damaged fairly badly. Before the re-release came about, trying to replace it was a nightmare, people wanting insane amounts of money because of how popular Nintendo products are. While it's still an all-ages read, it's not without it's charms.

When I was younger, I loved the character of "Friendly Flyod", this door to door salesman who sells lipstick to Paranaha Plants and gives the Mario Bros an English to Yoshi translation book that proves utterly useless.


It's full of great moments like that. Another one that sticks out is Mario and Luigi winding up at a Boo House and conning the biggest one into revealing the location of Koopa's castle during a break-thru therapist consultation 

There’s just too many artists to all fit in my Mount Rushmore. He certainly needs to be there. I used to just study his pages in Mad magazine. I was surprised to learn he actually did straight comic book work in the 60’s.