Author: Chris Osman
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Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #198
“The Fatal Five Who Twisted Time.” – Having recovered from Clark knocking her out with an apple last issue, Lana Lane strolls arm in arm with her batterer through a traveling carnival….
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Superboy Starring The Legion of Super-Heroes #197
“Timber Wolf, Dead Hero, Live Executioner” – Clark and Lana are resting under a tree. Clark receives a signal from his Emergency Legionnaire Signaler and needs to exit. Seeing an apple hanging ominously over Lana’s head, and thinking of Isaac Newton, he uses his heat vision to make it drop, hitting her and knocking her…
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Superboy #195
“One-Shot Hero!” — A new candidate for the Legion of Super-Heroes, Erg-1, stands before Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Chemical King, Shrinking Violet, Princess Projectra, Chameleon Boy, and Colossal Boy.
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Long Live the Legion!
I can still remember the day. I was hunting down an issue of Superboy at my local comic book store, the wonderful House of M Comics in Rotterdam.
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Blue Beetle
Two weeks ago I went with a friend to the Pathé at Amsterdam Arena and watched Blue Beetle. And I was amazed. I think this is one of the best comic book movies to come out in a very long time.
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Summer reading!
I’m off to take a well-deserved two week vacation; one week in Belgium and the other in Germany, (visiting an old favorite of mine just in time for my fortieth birthday) Cochem. And by well-deserved I mean necessary, essential, vital, and, in all probability, life-preserving. Because I’ve been working my literal ass off. So here’s…
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Saga
After finishing Saga Book One, I sat back and began to think. I closed my eyes and I concentrated so that I could see my life-time of comic book reading flash before me. After about 2.5 seconds it was confirmed. I never had experienced anything like Saga before. It’s beautiful, majestic, epic, and it is…
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Captain Atom in the 80’s
Captain Atom always popped in and out of a lot of the DC back issues I would read here and there. I had nothing against him. He seemed interesting. I mean just look at the setup. Nathanial Adam, convicted of treason, promised a pardon if he would only sit in a container made of some…
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The Silver Surfer Omnibus – Find your soul
In the forward to Marvel Comics’ The Silver Surfer Omnibus, Stan Lee not only declared that Silver Surfer is his favorite character, but also that these eighteen issues were probably his best work.
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Welcome to Chris-Osman 2.0!
Greetings dear Reader! And welcome to Chris-Osman 2.0. After much pondering, reflection, and painstaking work I finally managed to update my website and make it look the way I want.