CBR DC Comics Presents: Mystery in Space

 

This one shot was done for a very specific reason.
In 2004 a new line of DC Comics Presents were published, each celebrating the legacy of Julius Schwartz who died recently. Julie Schwartz had been one of the forces behind the DC since decades, and had also been one of DC's best editor-in-chief.
As a tribute to the big man he was, DC had a group of artists and writers come up with new stories the Schwartz-way. He used to commission covers from artist and have creative teams in on-going books improvise whole tales from it.
So to make the man proud, DC had some old covers of Batman, Green Lantern, The Atom and others redrawn and new stories made from scratch based on those.

CBR Ambush Bug: Nothing Special

 

In the mid-90s, Keith Giffen created a new character to spoof, analyse and have fun with the then-modern comic books of that era, The Heckler.
With no need and use of his original crazy prankster anymore, it seemed the days of the Ambush Bug were over...

That's probably what explains why a "last" Ambush Bug comic was released at the same time (and month!) as the Heckler's #1st issue. A special issue for Irwin, a book where he could one last time go crazy around the corners of the DCU.

CBR:Quickies The Atom

I already reviewed another Atom comics, his big epic storyline Sword of the Atom!
Since then I either wanted to review more of what is available of this character or that other Atom Ryan Choi.

But you know what? There isn't a lot of Ray Palmer Atom-related comics in the modern DC Universe.
So here's some Quickies on all of the Atom one-shots and specials ever published by DC since the mid-80s!
For fans of the Tiny Titans, it's more precisely all the current canon comics available nowadays at comic stores.
Not silver age rare out of print comics (other than a recent reprint or two), nor showcases.
Just all of The Atom's single issues printed in these last couple of years!