It’s May 1993. Superman is dead as of Superman #75 (November 1992), and Batman’s iconic Knightfall arc has just started; two months later he’d have his back broken in Batman #497…
Ugliest Pogs in the World : The Bottom 40 – Part 2
Pogs are terrible… but they don’t have to be. From the many, many thousands of pogs that were cranked out in the 1990s, a few rise to the top by…
Ugliest Pogs in the World : The Bottom 40 – Part 1
It’s pretty easy to hate on Pogs. Pogs a pretty much slabs of hot cardboard garbage that were a colossal waste of natural resources. Every pog was either beaten to…
The Importance of Pogs : An Introduction
If you were alive and coherent in the mid-90s, there’s no way that you could have escaped the phenomenon that was Pogs : simple, illustrated cardboard discs, about an inch…
The Importance of Rem Lezar
Back in 2006, I was writing for a website called Collectors Quest, a startup endeavor all about collecting. It had huge dreams, an awesome tenacity, and ultimately, a lack of…
Rad Dudes Trading Cards: Welcome to the Jerkstore
Were the Rad Dudes really that rad? Or were they quickly-drawn knockoff Garbage Pail Kids? Welcome to the most ’90s trading card set you’ve ever seen.