This past week I read the DC Comics 1988 mini-series “The Weird”. With the Big Two publishers, I have been recently gravitating to stand-alone stories and so I discovered this four-issue mini-series.

More for nostalgia's sake, I dug out my reference book I purchased back in 1995, “The Fantasy Role-Playing Gamer’s Bible” by Sean Patrick Fannon. The book is such a fun resource for those who want to discover old-school games and also great for folks who want to learn about how to get into role-playing games.

The Story Hour by Standard Education Society is what I read this past week. It is a collection of fables, stories, and poems. Some of them do not translate well to the modern audience, but most are just as imaginative and magical as anything a child would read now.

I dug out the 1976 book, ‘Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes. It is mostly a collection of reprinted origin comics of 10 major DC characters back in the ’30s and ’40s.

The artwork, writing style, and layout of the panels are great examples of the golden age of comics. The book contains 18 reprinted stories. These are always fun and nostalgic reads.

This past week was a full week of bedtime stories for the little ones. Most of the week was reading generic fairy tale-type stories.

My four-year-old picked out the book, “Only the Cat Saw” by Ashley Wolff and it was a delightful change of pace to the standard bedtime story fare.

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This past week, I’ve been reading more public domain golden age comics; mainly the old Sheena comics to help me out with the writing styles of the 1940s.

This past week I read the 2006 series of the “Defenders”. It was one of my bookshelf discoveries. It was so cool to see that the writers of this series were no other than the writing team of Keith Giffens and J.M. DeMatteis.

I loved their Justice League run in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and was excited to read these first 5 issues.

One of my favorite things about reading Christmas-related stories is how the writer interprets the mythos. . with that said, I do not want to spoil any parts of the story, but the Jack Frost story arc is innovative and amazing.

This week I received in the mail my copies of issue 1 and 2 of ‘Bric-a-Brac’ from Ryan Haack. I started reading it with my daughters this week and they really loved it. The artwork is great and fits the story and Ryan did a great job in putting together a great plot.

I’m really excited to see what happens in Issue 3 now.