Dear Wal,
One of the many comics I bought at comicon included the Spectre-post-Crisis, circa 1987. Yes, I mean directly after the original Crisis. I picked it up because I thought it looked interesting, and I've always had a soft spot for characters who aren't as well known outside of the comics. (I would say B-list, but I wouldn't consider the physical incarnation of the wrath of God a B-list character.) Like I said, the Spectre is essentially the wrath of God incarnate. We're talking Old Testimate, vengeful and fearsome. In this particular retelling, the Spectre has been bound to a mortal because of his failure to stop the Crisis. The mortal in question is one Jim Corrigan, P.I. The two are locked in a symbiotic relationship-neither spirit nor mortal man can survive separated from the other for more than 24 hours. After that, they both steadily weaken until they die. In as much as the wrath of God can die.
As you can imagine, being bound to a spirit who basically spends his days hunting down and killing the guilty isn't fun for Corrigan. He spends most of the time arguing with the Spectre and trying to get him to give his victims a little mercy.
I wasn't really sure what I was getting into-but it turned out to be fantastic. This particular run of Spectre is fantastic. This book is creepy, disturbing and fascinating. I'm totally addicted.
That's why I was extremely disappointing to find out that this run apparently wasn't popular enough to deserve a trade. As you may or may not know, I don't live near very many comic book shops, and so the only way I can get them is through Amazon as trades or through Comixology. Sorry, but I'm not paying six bucks to have an individual issue shipped to me. And Amazon and DC apparently had a falling out, so now I can't get digital DC comics on my Kindle.
I was able to find a reprinting of pre-Crisis Spectre, which sounds like fun. Anyone have any ideas where I could find more solo Spectre stories? I haven't seen him in the new 52 except for being in and out of Phantom Stranger, which I'm currently reading, and the trades are limited. I'm probably going to end up digging through lots of bins, which is sort of awesome but also slightly frustrating. It's like a treasure hunt.
/endrant

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