Another Obsolete Comic Review – The Flash and The Human Race

Another Obsolete Comic Review is up at oldgamereviewer.com, this time focusing on Mark Millar’s and Grant Morrison’s work on The Flash for DC Comics.  My thoughts on the Black Flash, everyone on Earth getting their exercise, cosmic gamblin’ men, and more can be read HERE

Advertising From Yesteryear…The Penguin and Hostess Fruit Pies

Back in the early 1980s the Continental Baking Company joined forces with DC Comics for a series of print ads showing various DC Comics characters hawking Hostess Fruit Pies.  These were full color spreads in the comics, and a major advertising campaign.  Here’s one you might have missed, with The Penguin in “Penguins on Parade”.  [...]

ReBlog: Obsolete Comic Reviews at OGR

I forgot to link to my inaugural post at oldgamereviewer.com, where I am putting my old comic book collection to work as a source for Obsolete Comic Reviews.  It’s a bit of a departure from what I normally write, but I still hope to write a few more over the next few months!  This time [...]

The Best Classic Board Games – Dark Tower (1982)

Some games, such as Monopoly, achieve an honoured place in popular culture, becoming easily recognizable brands to even the least gaming-minded segments of the vulgus populi.  Others are famous only within the gaming community, either as treasured memories of gaming days gone by or as coveted collector’s gems, either already collected or on the wish [...]

It’s September 19th…Do You Know Where Your Booty Is?

Aarr…It’s September 19th, and you know what that means: International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Do your part by playing some classic retro games, like The Secret of Monkey Island or Sid Meier’s Pirates! Avast, ye scurvy dogs – and go forth to search for lost retrogaming gold!