This post was originally published on February 25, 2015 If you’re reading this and you are wondering who Jack Kirby is you obviously don’t read comics. Kirby is one of the most influential artists and creators in the genre, ever. In fact I would go so far as to say a huge swath of the
Oh the 60s. As far as comic books are concerned some truly amazing things were created and fantastic stories told. And some of the greatest most iconic art drawn. There is so much to love about Silver Age comics. And there was some of the most ridiculous and inane crap the world has ever seen.
Welcome back to the Long Lost Longbox. If you think it's been a while since the last entry, you are absolutely correct. But never fear we continue the epic journey through the Books of Magic and some trouble in the sewers. In order to understand what is going on in The Books
Welcome back to the Long Lost Longbox. We continue the epic journey through the Books of Magic and meet some artful dodger types - cor, blimey! A little background. A long time ago in a lost era called the 90s DC decided it wanted to highlight some of its magical characters. So
Welcome back to the Long Lost Longbox. Today we begin an epic journey through the Books of Magic. We will be covering issues 8-17, 43-49 and annuals 1 & 2. So yeah, that's a lot. Best get started. So it begins, the 19 week exploration of the Books of Magic. This is
Welcome back to the Long Lost Longbox. Today we examine The Books of Faerie, but alas only for one issue. The Books of Faerie is a spinoff of the very successful and popular Books of Magic series (something that if you follow this blog you will be seeing much more of in
Welcome back to the Long Lost Longbox. We continue with Black Orchid one last time as we come to and end of a Twisted Season. So here we are at the end of another title. Well the end for this particular run anyway. So what is the legacy of Black Orchid? I
Welcome back to the Long Lost Longbox. We continue with Black Orchid (albeit missing a couple of issues) and a look at who wrote this thing. Okay, the writer. I am put in a difficult situation. Normally I would do some research (i.e. Google around and eventually end up on Wikipedia) and
Welcome back to the Long Lost Longbox. We continue with Black Orchid and a look at the artists on the book. The artists on Black Orchid are both quite good. Outstanding actually. I first became familiar with the cover artist Dave McKean through his work on Sandman with Neil Gaiman in the
Welcome back to the Long Lost Longbox. We continue with Black Orchid, albeit with a bit of a gap (as I’m missing issue #16) and start a six-part storyline: A Twisted Season. So who is Black Orchid? Or maybe I should say what is Black Orchid? Well, as far as the character
