the vynsane asylum

The last of the ‘Captain’ books. Capt America & Volstagg oneshot. Last year(or a couple years at this point?) J Michael Straczynski did a series of oneshots that teamed up random characters as part of Marvel’s rich tapestry of storytelling. This one had Cap and the voluminous Asgardian off to a ...

Haha. You made him sad.

JMS’ Cap series, up through Zdarsky’s current run. Capt America 1-6. JMS’ first arc is splitting time between a frail pre-Cap Steve Rogers taking on the American branch of the Nazi party as it tries to persuade Americans to join with Nazi Germany. Steve has to team up with Meyer Lansky and the mafia...

4/29’s books. Batman/Wonder Woman:Truth oneshot. Set between Hush and Htoosh(what? That’s like twenty years worth of stories, and like seven continuity reboots. Care to narrow it down a little there Jeph?) WW’s Lasso is on display at a Gotham charity function when it gets stolen by Catwoman, then st...

Action Comics:Men of Steel 1. This is a weird reprint of Action Comics 967 that’s priced $3.99 but it like the half the size of a regular issue. I’m trying to figure out what it’s from. Did some internet sleuthing. Dollar Tree sells DC reprints in poly bags for $1.25. But without the poly bag, it j...

FCBD 2026. Hit up four different shops. Mellow Blue Planet. The only thing I found was Deadly Hands of K’un L’un 2. ComiQ RaCk. I pulled the trigger and dropped $33 on Wolverine 155. The last regular issue I needed for a Full Run of Wolverine. I am now only missing the ‘99 Annual, that stupid 102.5 ...

The FCBD/CGD roundup for 2026. Avatar Legends from Nickelodeon. Alien Predator Planet Apes primer. Aquamanatee. Silly DC book for kids. World of Archie. Conan Tides of the Tyrant King DC/Sonic reprint of the miniseries. Flash Gordon. Fort Psycho. The Future is ***** Garfield. Greatest American Hero....

4/22 Part II Justice League Unlimited 18. The JLs Amnesty Program kicks in with various former villains and their assigned ‘Parole Officer’ hero teaming up to stop threats across the planet. Black Lightning explains the rules to a bunch of heroes on the satellite(for the benefit of the readers). The...

Tomorrow is FCBD! It’s also Comics Giveaway Day! What is the difference you ask? Well, when Diamond folded, they had the rights to the concept and logo and whatever to FCBD. Lunar Publishing, who now distribute DC, Image, and several other smaller publishers, bought the domain for FCBD. PenguinRando...

Star Wars Insider 237 comes out next week. It’s the Final Issue.

I haven’t purchased an issue since its prequel heydays, but it is still a little wistful to hear it’s coming to an end. Print is dying by inches.

Here’s the first half of 4/22’s books from last week. Absolute Wonder Woman 19. Diana uses her magic lasso, the Troika, to enter the Crossroads and free Zatanna’s father from his flaming curse. But Diana gets left behind in exchange, so Zatanna has to go in and rescue Diana. Veronica Cale releases a...

The first thing I remember him for were Spectacular and Web of Spidey runs with artists Sal Buscema and Alex Saviuk. I didn’t realize he was a damn baby when he wrote the Death of Gwen Stacy arc and invented the Punisher. His list of created characters is insane. Firestorm. Ms. Marvel. Jason Todd. K...

Peaky Blinders has been on my ‘to watch’ list for quite awhile. I just never get around to starting it.

Dealer show! I haven’t filled up an entire long box at one of Alan’s shows in awhile. But he bought some LCS up in Minnesota’s entire overstock like three days ago, so it was entirely new inventory to go thru. I ended up with 268 books for $110. I can usually smash more into a box, but 99% of it was...

4/15’s books. Absolute Batman 19. We are introduced to Absolute Scarecrow(which is a pretty terrifying design tbh). Then Mayor Gordon brings Bruce a secret file called Project:Batman, the contents of which upset Bruce when he reads them. Then Gordon THROWS HIMSELF OFF THE ROOF and everyone sees Batm...