Atomic Junk Shop
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #357: ‘Saturday’s Trivia Contest – Wanton Savagery Edition!’ (with answers!)
Review time! with ‘Twin Lotuses’
Review time! with ‘Look Into My Eyes’
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. And you don’t know what you didn’t have until it’s there
Review time! with ‘Gunpowder Prophets’
Review time! with ‘Birds of Prey’ volume 4
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #356: ‘Back in The (Sick) Day’
Revisiting Old Favorites: The novels of Ellen Raskin
Review time! with ‘Who Killed Nessie?’
It suddenly occurs to me that bronze and silver are not the same metal
Review time! with ‘Second Shift’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #355: ‘R.I.P. Murphy Anderson’
Review time! with ‘Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu’ volume 3
Review time! with ‘Die: Loaded’ #1-6
Review time! with ‘The Author Immortal volume 1: Death of the Author’
I went in knowing “no battle plan survives contact with the enemy,” and my plan still collapsed!
Review time! with ‘Supergirl volume 1: Misadventures in Midvale’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #354: ‘My Issues With Batman Day’
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #12: April 1999
Review time! with ‘The Court Charade’
Review time! with ‘So Buttons’ #15
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #353: ‘Déjà Vu on the Night of the Stalker’
Review time! with ‘Batman: Dark Patterns’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #352: ‘Mystery Weekend’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #351: ‘Our Retro-Renaissance, Late 1980s to Early 1990s Edition’
There are always movies to watch, and I’m going to watch them!
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #350: ‘A Week With The Perennials’
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #11: February 1999
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #349: ‘Sunday At The Back of the Book’
Question of the Week: What was your favorite birthday?
The look of the book
Even reprints need a better cover than this
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #348: ‘#FourComics Friday”
Alien as Immigrant: The Brother From Another Planet
Flippin’ Through … can we call it ‘Previews’? — May 2026
Black comedy (and horror and drama and …)
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #347: ‘A Yuletide Favorite’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #346: ‘A Birthday Flashback Favorites Meme Thing’
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #10: January 1999
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #345: ‘Halloween in the Skull Cave’
Question of the Week: What’s your favorite penciler/inker combo?
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #344: ‘Friday’s Shameless Podcast Plug — and a Couple of Footnotes for After’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #343: ‘Life During Wartime’
Marvel’s “War is Hell” isn’t hell to read but it’s closer to hell than heaven.
Bill Bixby, I did you wrong
Ditko and his inkers
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #342: ‘Saturday, to My Immediate Right’
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #9: December 1998
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #341: ‘An Anniversary Speculation’
What happens after the last lyric?
“Stan, Dr. Doom’s suing us for libel. Oh, and our office just exploded”
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #340: ‘Splashy Saturday’
Love changes everything. Except when it doesn’t.
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #339: ‘A Holiday Wish List … for 2014’
Love hurts! Silver Age romances as the Bronze Age begins
“My letter’s on the fan page!” Silver Age Marvel Comics on Earth-616
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #338: ‘Friday at the End of the Road’
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #8: July 1998
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #337: ‘Happy Birthday Ramona Fradon!’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #336: ‘Friday Among the Missing’
What I bought, read, watched, or otherwise consumed (non-comics edition!) – January-March 2026
Old, but not gold: Dr. Satan’s pulp adventures
Review time! with ‘The Voice Said Kill’
A legion of monsters in your house! Can anything stop Dr. Deadly?
Review time! with ‘The Shadower’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #335: ‘Saturday With the Big Guy’
Review time! with ‘The Invisible Man’
Review time! with ‘Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit’
Review time! with ‘The Ends’
Review time! with ‘Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #334: ‘Last Bat-Time, Last Bat-Channel’
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #7: June 1998
Review time! with ‘Wild Animals’
Hey-o! It’s time for more movies that I’ve watched recently!
Review time! with ‘News From the Fallout’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #333: ‘Saturday’s Spider-Man Strips … Stripped’
Review time! with ‘Vincent van Gogh: Sadness Will Last Forever’
Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story — I guess it must be true!
Review time! with ‘Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell’
“I didn’t know Future Man used a life battery!” Marvel Comics on Earth-616
Review time! with ‘The Power Fantasy’ #12-16
Review time! with ‘The Tin Can Society’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #332: ‘Friday the Second Time Around’
Review time! with ‘Absolute Wonder Woman volume 2: As My Mothers Made Me’
The secrets of Marvel Comics revealed — or so I thought
Review time! with ‘I Am Their Silence’
After the Crisis: Comic Books on New Earth after COIE
Review time! with ‘Groupies’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #331: ‘Another Friday In The Stacks — Review Pile Edition’
Review time! with ‘Detective Comics volume 2: Elixir’
Review time! with ‘Curse of Dark Shadows’
Challenge the unknown and ask the question
Review time! with ‘Synthetics’ volume 1
Review time! with ‘We Don’t Kill Spiders’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #330: ‘Saturday Reminiscing with a Master’
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #6: March 1998
Review time! with ‘Spectrum’
Cheaters never prosper? Actually some do, but it’s still a bad thing to cheat.
Review time! with ‘Pinupocalypse’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #329: ‘After Forty-Five Years … the Friday I Said So Long’
Review time! with ‘Fire & Ice: When Hell Freezes Over’
Review time! with ‘Batman The Long Halloween: The Last Halloween’
Victor von Doom’s astonishing adventures!
Review time! with ‘The Wrong Place’
Earth-One Comics Are Just Like Ours … Only Different
Review time! with ‘Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #328: ‘The Weekend We Died Hard’
Review time! with ‘Plague House’
Review time! with ‘Altamont’
Review time! with ‘Cul-de-Sac’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #327: ‘Saturday with the Forgotten Ones’
Review time! with ‘Godzilla: Heist’
Review time! with ‘Dinner with a Conspiracy Theorist’
This sweet love story can only end in blood!
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #326: ‘Friday Doing the Meme Thing’
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #5: February 1998
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #325: ‘R.I.P. Tony DeZuniga and Ernie Chan’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #324: ‘Saturday’s Trivia Contest – Street Heroes Edition’ (with answers!)
“Batman? Are you named for that guy in the funny books?” The Earth-One Paradox
Mr. Hyde was an innocent monster persecuted by torch-wielding mobs! Well, okay then.
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #323: ‘Saturday in 1942 (though it’s really more like 1975)’
What would you witness if you could?
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #322: ‘A Friday Farewell to a Classic Illustrator’
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #4: January 1998
And your writers shall see visions: writing superheroes in the DC Multiverse
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #321: ‘Scary Afternoons’
Question of the Week: What’s the nerdiest thing you’ve ever done?
The only good goblin is a dead goblin
OMG! Taylor Swift killed the Earl of Moray, and Lady Mondegreen!
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #320: ‘Shapeshifting Saturday’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #319: ‘Friday With The Best’
Question of the Week: What’s your favorite Bill Murray movie?
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #318: ‘A Friday Memorial to a Master’
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #3: January 1997
If everything is out of continuity, is anything in continuity?
Superheroes in decline: Earth-Two comic books during and after WW II
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #317: ‘Saturday’s Irrelevant Relevance’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #316: ‘Friday in the Age of Availability’
Your ‘American Vampire’ timeline!
Comics You Should Own — ‘American Vampire’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #315: ‘Friday’s Missed Deadlines’
Purge or Hide? Or … will we do both?
Fashions of the future
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #314: ‘Friday’s Trivial Pursuit – Imaginary Edition’ (with answers!)
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #2: August 1996
Far out, man!
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #313: ‘Saturday in an Age Undreamed Of’
Question of the Week: What comic books did you once like but now don’t so much?
What? More movies? Let’s check them out!
The Powers That Be
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #312: ‘Friday In An Age Undreamed Of — no, the OTHER One’
“Joe, I got an idea — I think it’s the one we’ve been waiting for.”
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #311: ‘Saturday’s Bargain Hunt’
Whom do you trust?
What I bought, read, watched, or otherwise consumed – December 2025
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #310: ‘Saturday in the Castle of the Devil’
What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #1: October 1992
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #309: ‘Friday’s Trivial Pursuit – Bronze Edition’ (with answers!)
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #308: ‘Saturday’s Best Reprint Collections Of 2009’ (with a short appended column as well)
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #307: ‘Friday among the Cultists’
Question of the Week: What’s your favorite thing about the so-called ‘holiday season’?
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #306: ‘Friday’s Modest Proposal’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #305: ‘Friday’s Trivial Pursuit’ (with answers!)
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #304: ‘Friday in Atlantis (the OTHER one)’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #303: ‘Saturday on the Grail Quest’
‘Flippin’ through ‘Previews’ … ??? – December 2025
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #302: ‘Friday’s Single-Issue Classic Countdown – Conclusion’
Teen Titans #32: The Mystery Endures
Comics You Should Own — ‘American Barbarian’
The Best Comics I Read in 2025
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #301: ‘Friday’s Single-Issue Classic Countdown – Part 2’
Question of the Week: What’s your favorite album released the year you were born?
What I bought, read, watched, or otherwise consumed — November 2025
Groundbreakers and dead ends, swords and sorcerers
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #300: ‘Friday’s Single-Issue Classic Countdown – Part 1’
“There is no one bedrock of reality” is an odd theme for Thanksgiving, but hear me out
More Movies You Never Heard of
Techcitement Review: Lenovo Yoga Plus Android Tablet Goes After The iPad Pro
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #299: ‘Snowbound Friday’
I hear it coming. I can feel it in my bones
Has anyone ever said you look like Superman?
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #298: ‘Friday, Back When I Was Twelve’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #297: ‘Friday at the Kids’ Table’
Let’s just check out some movies, shall we?
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #296: ‘Friday’s Top Five on the Injured List’
The 1970s: two views, poles apart
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #295: ‘Saturday On the Cusp of a New Age’
Question of the Week: What do you hate most about the United States right now?
Lost in the fifties tonight
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #294: ‘A Weekend On The (re)Construction Site’
Forever is a long time coming — but they’re here!
Comics You Should Own — ‘Always Never’
Techcitement Review: Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #293: ‘Bridwell Appreciation Day’
What I bought, read, watched, or otherwise consumed — October 2025
I always thought Iris Allen needed a secret origin, didn’t you?
Would you buy a diamond ring from this comic book?
We’ve reached our ninth anniversary (plus one month, whoops!), so let’s celebrate!
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 31: ‘Seven Soldiers’ #1
Happy Halloween, y’all
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #292: ‘Hard-Boiled Friday’
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 30: ‘Frankenstein’ #4
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 29: ‘Bulleteer’ #4
Kryptonite is gone! Can anything stop Superman now?
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 28: ‘Mister Miracle’ #4
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #291: ‘Friday bits and pieces’
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 27: ‘Frankenstein’ #3
As the Bible says, some seeds fall upon stony ground
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 26: ‘Bulleteer’ #3
I’d like to meet a hairy too
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 25: ‘Mister Miracle’ #3
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 24: ‘Frankenstein’ #2
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #290: ‘Then on Friday they all fell off a cliff and died, the end. Now shut up.’
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 23: ‘Bulleteer’ #2
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 22: ‘Mister Miracle’ #2
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 21: ‘Frankenstein’ #1
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #289: ‘Sunday with the Marriage Counselor’
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 20: ‘Bulleteer’ #1
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 19: ‘Klarion’ #4
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 18: ‘Zatanna’ #4
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 17: ‘Mister Miracle’ #1
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #288: ‘Friday with the *Other* Guys’
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 16: ‘The Manhattan Guardian’ #4
A turning point in the life of Marvel’s original anti-hero!
RIP Drew Struzan
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 15: ‘Shining Knight’ #4
The new comics creators of the 1970s — or at least new to these books
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 14: ‘Klarion’ #3
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #287: ‘Friday In The Gallery (Updated on Saturday!)’
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 13: ‘Zatanna’ #3
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 12: ‘The Manhattan Guardian’ #3
I’d have posted sooner —
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 11: ‘Shining Knight’ #3
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 10: ‘Klarion’ #2
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #286: ‘Weekend in the Grindhouse’
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 9: ‘Zatanna’ #2
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 8: ‘The Manhattan Guardian’ #2
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 7: ‘Shining Knight’ #2
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #285: ‘Friday in the Mountains of Madness’
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 6: ‘Klarion’ #1
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 5: ‘Zatanna’ #1
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 4: ‘The Manhattan Guardian’ #1
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 3: ‘Shining Knight’ #1
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #284: ‘Friday’s Cheap Marketing Ploy’
Let’s go ALL IN with DC … Week 52!
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 2: ‘Seven Soldiers of Victory’ #0
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 1: ‘JLA: Classified’ #1-3
What I bought, read, watched, or otherwise consumed — September 2025
Comics You Should Own – ‘Alvar Mayor’
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #283: ‘Friday at the Funeral’
Question of the Week: If you could live anywhere you wanted, where would you live?