Miraclo Miles

     A fairly brief nod toward t his past week's pair of additions to my library.       The fourth volume (of five) of Brubaker's Captain America run, and the all-in-one collection of Peter David's run of Captain Marvel stories, following the tale of Genis-Vell, son of (Marvel's) first Captain Marvel.       Each of these were series I only read once, as each was coming out, each with likely even less attention than I realized at the time. (Which I've been realizing again and again is true for entirely too much of my unfortunately distracted adult life.)       The Captain America volume is 928 pages, and while I recall some of the specifics it's receded to a blur in memory. The fifth volume, wrapping up Brubaker's run with the character, will be coming out within the next month or so if memory serves.       The Captain Marvel tome is 1400 pages, covering some sixty one issues, between his...

      Five that arrived in a little over the past two weeks. Sunday finally finds me starting to notice them, and begin sorting them into the collection in between loads of laundry and getting some cooking done.       Really only one, the Avengers vol 5, adding the rest of the Englehart run to the Avengers Silver/early Bronze run, is a primary add. This is to say, something strictly in line with what I'd set for myself when I first started selectively building this comics library. This is meant to be a selective, physical rebuild of key-to-me comics runs (having sold off my original comics years ago), with an eye towards a next stage of life, following nominal "retirement," when I'll have the overall time and self-determination of schedule to let me as a late-stage adult potentially have the time for comics that I had back in the '60s and early '70s. The intent will be to evaluate them both with respect to nostalgia and (one would hope) evolved ...