Reviews and Comments

Within a couple of minutes, and just doing a quick flip through this book, I saw two obvious errors. I picture "on the set of 'The Price Is Right' in the 1990s" features Johnny Olsen, who died in 1985. And among the "worst" game shows is one of my train-wreck favorites, "Three's a Crowd", a Newlywed Game-like show for which the book gets the rules wrong -- the wife had to match her husband's answers to get points, not both her husband's and his secretary's. Both of these are obvious (if you know) and easily verifiable (if you don't).

It's a shame. I had this book on my wishlist for months and finally bought it. There are mentions of some shows I had forgotten about or just never knew existed, but now I just won't believe anything here that's new to me.

Most of this volume is a three-part story featuring Groo's sister Grooella, who is not among my favorite characters in the series. The first story finds Groo encountering a city on stilts and features a 12-panel page which made me actual-LOL and stayed well above the usual level of humor throughout (which is quite the achievement, considering how many running gags this series maintained over the years).

The Great Darkness Saga is recognized as one of the best Legion stories of all time, and I still have no idea why. If you're familiar with DC lore of the time, the minions are obvious at introduction (if not midway through the arc) and I'm still convinced that Darkseid et al. are as popular as they are(n't) solely because of the name Jack Kirby associated with them.

The rest of this volume is part of the near-complete collection of LSH stories from the beginning. The Legion has a strong following for good reason, and several of the stories in this volume are a big part of that.

A beautiful anthology of self-awareness stories from a number of artists.

It's great that DC even considered publishing this, considering how slow they are to collect any non-current material, never mind a C-list character like Detective Chimp. I eagerly bought this to support their efforts but the material is rather bland. It's amusing at best, and like so much of the era, each story is pretty similar to the others.

I understand the Internet a lot better (and I work in tech!). The history of electricity and water systems are great too -- very readable.