From offspring unit, an original graphic design to celebrate (?) yet another birthday. Got it a while back and just now got around to posting it.

I have come to the reluctant conclusion that the DC Universe is totally messed up. So much so that I have expanded my "drop" list exponentially. I am now carrying less than a dozen titles. I have no intention of picking up any new ones. I have closed my subscription box at my local dealer. I have dropped Earth-Two, Stormwatch, all the Bats, and JLA Dark. I am keeping the four Lantern books only because of the crossover stories; would have dropped Red Lanterns long ago otherwise....

I stopped reading comics in the summer of 1983, because I was too engrossed in finished my Master of Arts degree in history...a long and arduous process that had nearly bankrupted me as well. The early nineties were not good to us, so my collection of over two thousand Silver Age and Bronze Age comics had to be sacrificed. This July, we took collecting up again.

That's a lot of ground to cover. A thirty year absence from the lives and events of our favorite heroes presents a steep...

Continuing to give thought to hapless and his on-again, off-again association &c with divorcee Carol Ferris (presuming she kept her maiden name). Since learning in vol 4 #20 that she is divorced from Gil, has been trying to work out his relationship with her. They have fought side by side throughout the Sinestro Corps wars and beyond. The ever-popular violet emoticon <<love>> appeared when SS Carol kissed him before his re-merger with Parallax during Blackest Night,...