The Barbarian of Oz
BARBARIAN OF WORLD'S END by Lin Carter Yet another adventure novel by science-fantasy's most (or least, depending on how you look at it)...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Sep 1
- 2 min
The weird combo of football and comic books.
Kickers Inc. #1 I gave this one a clean miss back in the day. Sports, sports comics, and generally anything sports-related was not my...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Aug 28
- 1 min
DC Comics did a lot of this sort of thing, didn't they?
My Greatest Adventure #47 “I was king of the sea beasts!” The comic has three stories of which the cover feature is the last. Nothing...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Aug 25
- 1 min
Bentley Little's Last Resort
THE RESORT by Bentley Little This was the fourth or fifth book I read by Bentley Little, a man once hailed as the new master of horror...
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cyborgcaveman
- Aug 23
- 1 min
The award for most forgettable villain goes to... Incandescent Man!
Marvel Team Up #149 Spider-Man and Cannonball star in the next to last issue of Marvel Team-Up! Based on the cover art you might think...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Aug 21
- 2 min
Arch-villain Maelstrom's 1st Appearance was in a forgettable team-up comic.
Marvel Two-in-One #71 This go around Thing partners up with his longtime teammate Mr. Fantastic to avert the “Holocaust on Hydro-Base!”...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Aug 18
- 1 min
Another excuse to post Alan Davis's Goblin Princess!
Excalibur #7 Second of the two Inferno tie-in issues, which mean more of the same demons-attacking-New York antics from Excalibur #6....
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Aug 16
- 2 min
Excalibur, Inferno, and the Goblin Princess
Excalibur #6 Today's comic was another dollar bin rescue from Retro Reboot in Waycross, GA! That means I got it for fifty cents cheaper...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Aug 14
- 2 min
John Byrne can't catch X-lightning in a bottle twice.
X-Men – The Hidden Years #20 “The Strangest Teens of All” reads the cover. Another blurb declares “Where Monsters Dwell!” John Byrne...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Aug 11
- 2 min
The Greatest Space-Fantasy Film of All!
Star Wars #2 This is artifact level stuff for me right here! Yes, it’s only a second printing, but the feeling of nostalgia that washed...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Aug 9
- 2 min
Kraven some Tigra?
Marvel Chillers #4 Tigra the Were-Woman (yes, fellow comic geeks, I know that "were-woman" actually means “man-woman”) battles with...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Aug 7
- 2 min
What if Tarzan was born in Alaska?
ONE AGAINST A WILDERNESS by William L. Chester What a great little book! One of several DAW paperbacks I found at a used book store in...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Aug 4
- 2 min
Marvel's Rom defeated a villain named after a Golden Age hero!
Rom the Spaceknight – King-Sized Annual #1 “I’ve stripped you of your armor, spaceknight… now I’ll take your life!” thus sayeth the...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Aug 2
- 2 min
Marvel's heroic Sandman started off very lame.
Marvel Team Up #138 Spider-Man and Sandman star in Spidey's monthly team-up title, which was pretty unusual back then. Spider-Man...
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cyborgcaveman
- Aug 1
- 2 min
Dread-- Dreadstar and Company until the day I die!
Dreadstar and Company #1 “Fabulous first issue!” the cover cries out. Not the first appearance of Vanth Dreadstar, but the first issue of...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Jul 31
- 4 min
"They call me Blade-- Dick Blade."
THE MOUNTAINS OF BREGA WIZARD OF RENTORO WARRIORS OF LATAN by Jeffrey Lord At first glance, these titles scream fantasy series....
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Jul 31
- 2 min
Steve Ditko nearly derails the final years of Rom the Spaceknight
ROM #62 By this time the ROM series is drawing to a close but remains very strong story-wise. Writer Bill Mantlo never took his foot off...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Jul 28
- 1 min
Who remembers Ron Lim's Ex-Mutants?
Ex-Mutants Microseries – Erin #1 Printed by Pied Piper Comics circa 1987, this sold for $1.95 in the States, which was a modest chunk of...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Jul 26
- 2 min
The Dawning put me to sleep.
THE DAWNING by Hugh B. Cave To judge by the author's bio in the back of the book, Mr. Cave is a man of impressive accomplishments (over...
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Greg O'Driscoll
- Jul 24
- 2 min
If you can't say anything nice-- don't review Liefeld's Supreme
Supreme #28 I won this comic in 2019. It was a door prize on Free Comic Book Day at Okecon, a small con put on by the amazing Ware County...
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