Whilst unearthing this issue, I realised that, since it's now October 2019 this issue is now officially forty years old and I feel like such an old fart right now (Covers were always dated three months ahead of their release date to increase shelf life on newstands) .
And we return to the ever popular theme of Halloween, costume parties!
So between ORACLE and GA/BC and the lack of any of my normal standout titles, this was a pretty bad week for comics. And that would ordinarily be pretty disheartening, and cast a bit of a pallor over the whole Wednesday LCS experience.
Except for the other comic that came out this Wednesday, which is pure distilled awesome that somebody cut with liquid joy and pressed into ink and paper form.
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