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If you (like me) are fond of digging through bargain boxes at your local comic shop, trying to find those nuggets of comic gold among the Longbox Junk, then you have more than likely spotted at least one issue of this four part mini.
As far as I know, those shiny hologram-enhanced covers are as much a fixture of dollar bins as anything Image ever put out during their "Gotta be like Marvel!" 90's Heyday. They must have printed a billion issues of this series because I come across them all the time.
So let's take a closer look at this common Longbox Junk find. . .
- read more"A Death In The Family" is a four issue "event" that, although it's pretty much considered a standalone story, ran in the regular ongoing Batman series in late 1988, early 1989 (Issues #426-429). If you skip around the internet a bit, you're going to run across the story on just about any "Top (insert number here) Batman Stories" list you find.
But is it really any good when a hard look is taken at it? Or are people just knee-jerking it onto "Best Story" lists because of the impact on comic book history of the death of a major supporting character (SPOILER: Jason Todd Robin)? Does the story itself hold up under scrutiny, or is it coasting along on the noteriety gained by having comic fans actually call a 900 number (anyone remember those?) and decide if Robin died or not?
Let's find out!
Welcome back to the series that's like that one guy at work who just does what he has to do and nothing else. He knows he's never going to get a great review from management, but he doesn't care as long as he just gets paid.
THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD (DC)
ISSUE 191
- read moreI'm not sure exactly when or where I got these 3 comic books. I have no recollection of ever seeing them before I pulled them out of the depths of the "B" section of my collection. But what caught my eye and made me want to crack the tape on the plastic was that Walt Flanagan did the artwork.
I like Kevin Smith. Some of his movies are good. . .some are bad. I liked his Green Arrow and Green Hornet comic work. But what I like most about Kevin Smith is his "Comic Book Men" series on AMC, where Walt Flanagan is the tight-fisted ubernerd manager of Smith's comic book store "Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash". I never knew he was known as a comic book artist.
Did I like what I saw? READ ON!
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