Pandemic Comics #2 “Mile High Comics”

The absolute legend to come out of the pandemic so far, for me, is Mile High Comics’ Chuck Rozanski. Chuck has been working nonstop, virtually alone, fulfilling mystery box orders for more than a month. He even worked Easter, saying since it was even quieter that day it made things easier. The mystery boxes are a variety of 5lb comics selections (Marvel, unsurprisingly, seems to be the most popular, with fancy swag to show for it, including free add-on collections, but I’m not a Marvel guy, so I can resist that sort of thing). I figured it was only right to order some of these, the DC assortments, and got them in yesterday. I’ll spend some of this quarantine time, in the coming days, reading them, and then blogging about them here.

I ended up getting eighty-odd comics. Here’s some of them:

• two issues of 52 (something I planned on rereading during this time anyway)
• DC/Marvel: All Access #3 (the follow-up to DC Versus Marvel)
• Assassins #1 (from the Amalgam Comics spin-off of DC Versus Marvel)
• two copies of Batman #433 (which is perfectly fine, I ordered two mystery boxes; a silent issue)
• DC Nation #0 (with the excellent Tom King/Clay Mann “Joker’s invitation to the wedding” story)
• The Extinction Parade:War #1 (which is the one title not published by DC; included because it features a Mile High variant cover)
• Harley Quinn #1 (from Rebirth; the newest comic in either set)
• Justice League America #61 (first issue of the Dan Jurgens run, which ought to also be the first appearance of Bloodwynd)
• JLA/WildC.A.T.s (not sure I’ve read this Grant Morrison-era JLA graphic novel yet, but either way another hugely welcome discovery in the selections)
• The Justice Society Returns! National Comics #1 (I don’t care if Mark Waid has seemingly turned his back on the Flash forever, he’ll always be the Flash guy to me; here he writes Jay Garrick)
• The Kingdom: Son of the Bat #1 (and the guy who wrote the masterpiece Kingdom Come, though Nightstar was infinitely better than the convoluted name he gave to the offspring of Bruce Wayne and Talia Head)
• Lobo: Infanticide #4 (Lobo was huge in the ‘90s! for a split second! and somehow has never had a significant resurgence. or a real attempt at one. bastiches!)
• The Next #1 (I was a big fan of this mini-series; will be interesting to revisit)
• Ronin #1 (this was the biggest get of the selections, something I’ve never read, a Frank Miller comic that used to be included in DC’s evergreens without fail)
• Seven Soldiers of Victory #1 (a significant Grant Morrison touchstone for me)
• Action Comics #662 (“At long last...the secret revealed!”)
• Adventures of Superman #500 (in the original polybag, of course...not gonna open this one)
• Superman Confidential #1 (the start of the classic Darwyn Cooke/Tim Sale Kryptonite arc)
• Vixen: Return of the Lion #1 (I always meant to read this G. Willow Wilson mini-series, back when I was one of her biggest fans thanks to Air)
• and many more!