I spent my weekend cataloguing and filing all of the comics I bought at Wizard World (along with filing 2 long boxes’ worth of comics that hadn’t been filed in well over a year). It took three days but I finished! Now I just have to add 800 more listings from my old database, price the ones that aren’t priced, find cover art, update the online listing and then I’m DONE and can get on with my 15 other projects!

I also read the entire run of Resurrection Man, and while it’s a good read, the real attraction is the art by Butch Guice throughout.

Yesterday I finished reading “Rose and Thorn.” I was waiting for the trade, but I managed to grab all six issues for a dollar each. (Not an opinion of the quality; I found EVERYTHING for a dollar at Wizard World, even 20 copies of “Who Is Donna Troy?”)

A revised origin for the character(s), “Rose and Thorn” takes someone I never found appealing and adds a decent backstory to explain the split personality. It also makes Thorn such a psycho that you don’t even see her as a heroine. You really DON’T want Thorn getting out. This is important because I never saw what the big deal was about Thorn. So this nice girl has an alter ego who puts on spandex and fights crime. How does that make her anything more than Black Canary with a personality disorder? (It also IS a break with the old continuity where Rose had no idea that she even had a Thorn personality. This is better, really.)

It’s been 2 years. Is this thing coming out in a trade paperback soon? It should, since this is a wonderfully self-contained work that plays out like one big story. I mean, it’s clearly MADE as a split-apart trade, in keeping with the comics market of the day. Yet, while Amazon already lists “Villains United” for sale (while we’ve still got two issues left to read), there aren’t any listings for a “Rose and Thorn” trade. Makes me wonder if sales were too low to justify doing a trade. Yet, I think “Rose and Thorn” would do great in book form. It’s just one more ridiculous thing about our hobby: it’s up to the people who’d like to read the book to pay for the installments or they won’t get to read the book, but if they pay for the installments they don’t need the book.

Next up: Catwoman/Wildcat, which I found bundled as a set!