And this was what I read through in June, a month that saw me busier than the average bear between work and a short (too short!) trip to the Bay Area to see my best friend. For the most part, nostalgia was reigning supreme as it has been doing in the last few months, not least because I finally completed by collection of early 1990s Green Lantern and spin-off books and fully dived into that cosmology. (There’s so much to talk about there, all of it overshadowed by the fact that the writer was later jailed after pleading guilty to possession of child porn. Yeah, I know.)
I also worked through a re-read of Squadron Supreme and its follow-ups — a very strange fan-fic as officially published comic from Marvel in the 1980s, based around the seeming pitch of “What if we published DC characters? And… yeah, that’s it, I guess” — and a bunch of assorted superhero comics of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s; it’s an accidental re-education on the genre’s development and the tricks lost and left behind as tastes changed. Sometimes, I think about wanting to write a really wonky book tracking those shifts in methodology and trickery, in part as a guide to see what could be re-adopted or re-explored, but then I remember that no-one would want to read such a thing.
Anyway: June’s comics looked like this.
- Money Shot #s 1-5
- Conan the Barbarian (2023) #s 15-16
- Avengers (1963) #s 283-285
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #24
- West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) #2
- Superman (1986) #s 7-8
- Adventures of Superman (1986) #430
- Action Comics (1938) #590
- Legion of Super-Heroes (1984) #37
- Green Lantern (1990) #9
- Albion #1
- Action Comics Weekly #601
- Superman (1939) #371
- Justice League Europe Annual #2
- Superman (1939) #391
- The Spirit Casebook
- Green Lantern (1990) #s 10-11
- Avengers Annual (1967) #16
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #25
- Avengers (1963) #286
- Fantastic Four (1998) #s 501-502
- Defenders (1972) #s 46-47
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #26
- Action Comics (1938) #591
- Legion of Super-Heroes (1984) #38
- Superman (1986) #9
- Adventures of Superman (1986) #s 431-432
- Green Lantern (1990) #12
- Marvel Knights: The World to Come #1
- All-New Venom #7
- Defenders (1972) #48
- Ghost Rider vs. Galactus #1
- Green Lantern (1990) #13
- Fantastic Four (1998) #s 503-508
- Green Lantern (1990) #14
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #27
- Defenders (1972) #49
- Green Lantern (1990) #15
- Imperial (2025) #1
- Immortal Thor #s 23-24
- X-Men (2024) #s 10-17
- Action Comics (1938) #s 592-593
- Superman (1986) #s 10-11
- Adventures of Superman (1986) #s 433-435
- Fantastic Four (1998) #s 509-511
- Green Lantern (1990) #s 16-17
- Avengers (1963) #287
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #28
- Defenders (1972) #50
- Justice League Unlimited (2024) #8
- New History of the DC Universe #1
- Uncanny X-Men (1963) #137
- Green Lantern (1990) #18
- Avengers (1963) #288
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #29
- Superman (2023) #27
- Green Lantern (1990) #s 19-25
- Green Lantern Annual (1992) #1
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #1
- Avengers (1963) #289
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #30
- Fantastic Four (1998) #s 512-513
- HERBIE Infinity Comic #1
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #s 2-4
- Transformers (2023) #21
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #5
- Guy Gardner Reborn #s 1-3
- Avengers (1963) #290
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #31
- Fantastic Four (1998) #514
- Doctor Who: The Cruel Sea
- Avengers (1963) #s 291-297
- The Mighty Thor (1966) #s 396-400
- Solo Avengers #1
- Fantastic Four (1998) #s 515-516
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #32
- Green Lantern (1990) #s 26-28
- Avengers (1963) #s 298-300
- Action Comics Annual (1987) #1
- Superman Annual (1987) #1
- Adventures of Superman Annual (1987) #1
- Fantastic Four (1998) #517
- Green Lantern (1990) #29
- Fantastic Four (1998) #518
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #33
- Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment OGN
- Astonishing Tales #s 1-3
- Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up #1
- Mephisto vs. #1
- The Last Avengers Story #s 1-2
- Mephisto vs. #s 2-4
- Hawkeye: Earth’s Mightiest Marksman #1
- Avengers: Infinity #s 1-3
- Avengers: The Ultron Imperative #1
- Avengers (1998) #1
- Squadron Supreme (1985) #1
- Death of the Silver Surfer #1
- Fantastic Four (1998) #570
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #s 34-37
- Fantastic Four (1998) #519
- Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #1
- One World Under Doom #5
- Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1
- Runaways (2025) #1
- Storm (2024) #s 7-9
- Star Wars (2025) #2
- Trinity, Daughter of Wonder Woman #1
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #s 38-39
- West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) #3
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #6
- Green Lantern (1990) #s 30-31
- Guy Gardner (1992) #1
- West Coast Avengers (1985) #s 40-43
- Squadron Supreme (1985) #2
- Fantastic Four (1998) #520
- Squadron Supreme (1985) #3
- Guy Gardner (1992) #2
- All Star Superman #5
- Fantastic Four (1998) #521-524
- Guy Gardner (1992) #3
- Green Lantern (1990) #32
- Squadron Supreme (1985) #4
- Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #s 1-2
- Avengers: Loki Unleashed! #1
- Avengers: Infinity #4
- Avengers: The Origin #1
- Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2005) #1
- Squadron Supreme (1985) #s 5-6
- Adventure Comics (1938) #210
- Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #3
- Squadron Supreme (1985) #s 7-10
- Green Lantern (1990) #33
- Squadron Supreme (1985) #s 11-12
- The Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe OGN
- Quasar (1989) #13
- Green Lantern (1990) #34
- Quasar (1989) #s 14-16
- Green Lantern (1990) #35
- Avengers (1998) #s 2-4
- Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #4
- Avengers (1998) #s 5-6
- Avengers/Squadron Supreme Annual #1
- Squadron Supreme: New World Order #1
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #s 7-8
- Avengers: The Origin #s 2-5
- Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2005) #2
- Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #5
- G.I. Joe (2024) #8
- Batman Family #2
- Batman Eternal #1
- Tom Strong #1
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #9
- Green Lantern (1990) #36
- Guy Gardner (1992) #4
- Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #6
- Marvel 2-in-One Annual (2018) #1
- Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2005) #s 3-4
- Avengers (1998) #s 7-8
- X-Factor Annual (1987) #3
- The Punisher Annual (1988) #1
- Silver Surfer Annual (1988) #1
- Aliens vs. Avengers #4
- Guy Gardner (1992) #5
- Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #s 7-10
- Fantastic Four (2018) #1
- Green Lantern (1990) #37
- X-Men (2024) #18
- West Coast Avengers (2024) #8
- New Avengers (2025) #1
- Godzilla vs. Avengers #1
- Fantastic Four Fanfare #2
- Bring on The Bad Guys: Doom #1
- The Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #6
- Fantastic Four (2018) #s 2-3
- Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #11
- Avengers (1998) #9
- Captain America (1998) #1
- Iron Man (1998) #1
- Guy Gardner (1992) #s 6-7
- Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #12
- Fantastic Four (2018) #4
- Showcase ‘93 #s 1-5
- Avengers (2023) #27
- The Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #s 1-5
- Avengers Assemble (2024) #s 1-5
- Non-Stop Spider-Man #1
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #10
- Fantastic Four (2018) #5
- Fantastic Four Wedding Special (2018) #1
- Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2005) #s 5-8
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #11
- Non-Stop Spider-Man #2
- Captain America (1998) #s 2-3
- Astonishing Avengers Infinity Comic #1
- Fantastic Four (2018) #6
- Non-Stop Spider-Man #s 3-5
- Black Widow (2016) #s 1-2
- Green Lantern (1990) #38
- Astonishing Avengers Infinity Comic #2
- Black Widow (2016) #3
- Future State: Green Lantern #s 1-2
- Green Lantern (1990) #39
- Black Widow (2016) #4
- Fantastic Four (2018) #7
- Captain America (1998) #s 4-5
- Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes II #s 1-2
- Green Lantern (1990) #40
- Guy Gardner (1992) #8
- Captain America (1998) #s 6-7
- Black Widow (2016) #s 5-6
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #12
- Captain America (1998) #s 8-12
- Fantastic Four (2018) #8
- Black Widow (2016) #s 7-12
- Astonishing Avengers Infinity Comic #s 3-4
- Avengers (1998) #11
- Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (1998) #s 1-4
- Iron Man (1998) #s 2-3
- Fantastic Four (2018) #9
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #13
- Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (1998) #s 5-7
- Iron Man (1968) #s 201-207
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #14
- Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (1998) #s 8-9
- Iron Man (1968) #s 208-210
- Avengers (1963) #s 105-108
- Green Lantern: Mosaic #s 15-18
- Green Lantern (1990) #41
- Avengers (1963) #s 109-111
- Fantastic Four (2018) #s 10-11
- Green Lantern (1990) #42
- Avengers (1963) #112
- Fantastic Four (2022) #33
- Green Lantern (1990) #43
- Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) #18
- Deadpool (2014) #15
- Green Lantern Annual (1992) #2
- Guy Gardner (1992) #s 9-14
- Green Lantern Corps (2011) #0
- Fantastic Four (2018) #12
- The Darkstars (1992) #s 17-24
- Green Lantern (1990) #s 44-45
- DC Universe: Trinity #2
- Green Lantern (1990) #s 46-47
- Fantastic Four (2018) #13
- Avengers (1963) #113
- Iron Man (1968) #211-213
- Green Lantern Corps: Recharge #1
- Guy Gardner: Warrior #s 17-21
- The Darkstars (1992) #s 0, 25-27
- Avengers (1963) #114
- Justice League (2011) #40
- Justice League: The Darkseid War – Green Lantern #1
- Fantastic Four (2018) #14
- Avengers (1963) #115
- Defenders (1972) #8
- Iron Man (1968) #214
- Green Lantern Corps: Recharge #s 2-5
- Green Lantern (2005) #s 1-3
- Iron Man (1968) #s 215-217
- Void Rivals #s 1-6
- Avengers (1963) #s 116-117
- Defenders (1972) #9
- Fantastic Four (2018) #15
- Iron Man (1968) #218
- Green Lantern (2005) #s 4-6
- Transformers (2024) #s 1-6
- Star Trek: Defiant #17
- Defenders (1972) #10
- Avengers (1963) #118
- Fantastic Four (2018) #16
- The Beast (1997) #1
- Magneto (1996) #1
- 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2025
- 2000 AD Progs 2439-2440
- Star Trek: Defiant #s 18-21
- Green Lantern (2005) #s 7-8
- Transformers (2024) #s 7-12
- Fantastic Four (2018) #s 17-19
- Invisible Woman (2019) #s 1-2
- Green Lantern (2005) #9
- Invisible Woman (2019) #3
- Fantastic Four (2018) #20
- Iron Man (1968) #219
- Empyre: Avengers #0
- Empyre: Fantastic Four #0
- Invisible Woman (2019) #s 4-5
- Green Lantern (2005) #s 10-11
- Avengers (1963) #119
- Defenders (1972) #11
- Transformers (2024) #s 13-18
- Energon Universe 2024 Special #1
- Iron Man (1968) #220
- Action: The Story of A Violent Comic
- Green Lantern (2005) #s 12-13
- Green Lantern Corps (2006) #1
- Assorted Crisis Events #4
- We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #s 2-4
- You’ll Do Bad Things #s 2-4
- Iron Man (1968) #221
- The Legendary Lynx OGN
- Iron Man (1968) #222
- Green Lantern (2005) #s 14-15
- Iron Man (1968) #s 222-225
- Green Lantern (2005) #s 16-17