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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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 21, 20232 min read
Quicksilver: "Oh, uh, I was mind-controlled-- again!"
X-Factor Giant-Sized Annual #2 The sole cover blurb reads “Guest Starring: the Inhumans!” This is usually a selling point for me. I like...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 19, 20232 min read
Two of Capt. America's Kooky Quartet Return
Marvel Super Action #36 “How do you catch the world’s fastest man?” the cover asks the reader. This is a great question, especially when...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 17, 20232 min read
Savage is more marketable than Lover
THE ETERNAL SAVAGE by Edgar Rice Burroughs An interesting, but short novel even by Burroughs' standards. The Eternal Lover chronicles the...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 12, 20232 min read
It's the 1990s, do you know where your Antiheroes are?
Deathstroke the Terminator #1 Written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by Steve Erwin, the cover blurb declares this the “1st Take No Prisoners...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 10, 20231 min read
Lions and Tigers and Bears (Kalidahs combine two of the three)! Oh my!
THE WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum I haven't read this one since I was a kid. Happily, years later, I still find it very enjoyable. All...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 7, 20231 min read
Can Superman Hit a Woman?
Action Comics #472 “Face it, Superman! I’m as powerful as you—and a much better fighter!” Ah, the 70s! Lots of things were changing at...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 5, 20232 min read
Before it was all red and blue lasers, G.I. Joe was awesome!
G.I. Joe #13 An awesome cover sets the tone for one of my favorite issues of my favorite G.I. Joe story arc of all time. Surpassed only...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 3, 20233 min read
Gimme five! Death Draws Five!
Death Draws Five (aka Wild Cards XVII) by John J. Miller I remember that when I had finished reading this book, which was the then-latest...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 1, 20232 min read
Space Pirates Bill Mantlo Style!
Swords of the Swashbucklers #1 God, I miss Bill Mantlo! Really, I should say I miss Bill Mantlo’s writing. He is still alive, but after...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 26, 20237 min read
Struck by Stinger
Stinger by Robert R. McCammon Recently I was on a stakeout that went wrong in a bad way. Not the kind conducted by police officers or...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 17, 20233 min read
Get Brak! Get Brak to where you once belong!
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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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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