by Tom Batiuk | Apr 25, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
After my praising Flash scribe Cary Bates’ straightforward story telling, he abandons linear storytelling completely and returns to his hopscotching ways giving us an issue that’s little more than a series of of clipped vignettes that are more of a list rather than a...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 22, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
So once again I find that I’ve been scooped by the past. Back when I was in the seventh grade, I created a character I called The Ray. The story was a mash-up between Tarzan, Congo Bill and old fashioned science fiction. An ape in the jungle is struck by a ray of...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 19, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 16, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
Most wait for the first robin to announce the arrival of Spring. Me, I wait for the first book signing, and I’ve got a couple coming up just down the road so it must be Spring. The first is a signing at a brand spanking new Barnes & Noble in North Canton,...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 14, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
It was at the Akron Comicon that fall that I approached Joe Staton about doing the first cover, and I couldn’t have made a better call. Joe was best known for his decades of work on DC Comics, where he worked on characters like Batman, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, and...