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The Mark of the Demons by John Jakes In honor of the recent passing of John Jakes, I offer this review of a less well-known work. Well,...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 15, 20234 min read
All in on Knaves Over Queens
Knaves Over Queens by the Wild Card Collective edited by George R.R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass Thank God for this book. After the...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 12, 20234 min read
Forecast calls for Storm Front with possible zany antics.
Storm Front by Jim Butcher For years, I passed on the Dresden Files. I never precisely turned my nose up at the popular and long-running...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 11, 20232 min read
Assault on Fortress Magneto!
Amazing Adventures featuring the Original X-Men #8 – cover blurb box: “Assault on Fortress Magneto!” This was a reprint of the Stan Lee...
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cyborgcaveman
Apr 10, 20232 min read
When Spider-Man was a Stunt Man
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #11 – Three years ago, I picked up this older annual on the cheap. Leaving aside the condition of the book,...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 7, 20232 min read
Where no Elf has gone before!
In my recent review of Kull and the Barbarians, I briefly mentioned Weny Pini’s portrayal of Red Sonja as an early example of cosplay....
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 6, 20232 min read
Tarzan's Revenge - starring Glenn Morris (1938)
The third film in our Ape-Man mini-marathon is Tarzan's Revenge, featuring Glenn Morris as Tarzan and Eleanor Holm as, well, Eleanor Reed...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 5, 20232 min read
Kull and the Barbarians #3
Cancelled! Another Michael Whelan cover starts things off, though not quite as strongly as the high-water mark of the second issue. More...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 4, 20233 min read
Tarzan and the Green Goddess - starring Herman Brix (1938)
It seems as if I'm getting on a Tarzan movie kick, so here's a second Ape-Man review. This time we're talking about another hybrid beast,...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 3, 20232 min read
Kull and the Barbarians #2
After a debut issue full of reprints there are new stories this time! Even the cover, another early work by famous fantasy artist Michael...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 2, 20232 min read
Tarzan the Fearless - starring Buster Crabbe (1933)
A review of the adventure serial turned movie, starring Buster Crabbe as Tarzan.
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 1, 20232 min read
Kull and the Barbarians #1
The cover blurb reads: “First Issue Collectors’ Item!” Hah! I say again, hah! This “first issue collectors’ item” was a bunch of...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Mar 26, 20235 min read
Hold the Texas Hold 'Em, please!
TL:DR I promised myself I would keep this one mercifully short. Here it is, as short as I can make it: If you like George R.R. Martin’s...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Mar 11, 20234 min read
From Thongor to Jongor
Thongor is Missing! It’s cookie season for Girl Scouts and, seeing as two of those scouts are my daughters, that means I have spent a lot...
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cyborgcaveman
Feb 22, 20233 min read
Conans are from Earth, Thongors are from Mars
Thongor and the Dragon City by Lin Carter "The adventures of the mightiest sword and sorcery hero of them all!" So sayeth the cover copy,...
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cyborgcaveman
Feb 21, 20233 min read
Book Llarn-ing
WARRIOR OF LLARN by Gardner F. Fox A gift from my good friend and very talented artist James Hanson, Fox's sword and planet story stands...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Feb 20, 20233 min read
What is Sword & Sorcery?
What is Sword and Sorcery? What makes it distinct from the broader classification of Fantasy? For fans of both genres these are familiar...
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cyborgcaveman
Feb 19, 20231 min read
Thongor or Thargor?
Lin Carter's Thongor is the subject of several reviews on my blog. Some consider the Lemurian barbarian a pale pastiche of Conan. Others...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Feb 18, 20235 min read
Conan and the Bridge Too Far
CONAN - THE SWORD OF SKELOS by Andrew Offutt The next entry in our review of the non-Howard Conans is Andrew Offutt's Sword of Skelos. A...
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cyborgcaveman
Feb 17, 20233 min read
The Adventure That Almost Was
Thongor Against the Gods by Lin Carter Sequel to Thongor and the Dragon City, the barbarian hero's next adventure has all the right...
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