The Mini Comic Library

Pulling Teeth is a new regular feature I'll be producing at the Mini Comic Courier to collect my thoughts on the single issue comics I pick up from my local comic shop (LCS) each month. At the same time, it's designed as an exercise to challenge me to write more often and turn some of the skills I learned as a reporter to writing about comics. I love comics as physical items. There's an obsessive collector inside me who needs to get his hands on a comic and feel the pages beneath my fingers before I can be truly content. That's why I've had a pull list at my LCS for as long as I can remember, a standing order for a variety of ongoing series, artists, writers and characters, that over the years has become increasingly wild and unwieldy, despite regular - and often brutal - comic culls.  So, I'm starting Pulling Teeth to combine that persistent habit with an effort to write more often and some of the technique from my days as a newspaper man, and parlay i...