Since I'm part of the "comic book circle of life", Professor Alan sent me these two Valiant books. And since it's Professor Alan, he sent them with the challenge of "Uncollect These!" Challenge accepted, sir. The publication date on these is 1994 (with an early 1995 cover date), so we are definitely in the "bust" …
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Starslayer #28-30
I know that I already reviewed issue #30 last year, but seeing that I'm doing the entire run of Starslayer, and the story is a continuing arc, I want to include it here, especially since that issue is the second of a two-parter and this means I finally got the other half of the story. These three …
The Black Flame (Starslayer backups and issue #27)
So whereas Grimjack had a few backup stories before a team-up with Starslayer and then his own title, the next backup feature, "The Black Flame", ran for the remainder of Starslayer's run (except for the final issue) and had its own full-length feature in issue #27. So since I've reached that issue in my reviews, I …
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Starslayer #24-26
After leaving the city of Parallax that was at "the beginning of time," the Jolly Roger heads back to Cynosure, which they're now considering home even though it's still an incredibly dangerous place. When they return in issue #25, it seems like Ariosto, who was killed in the castle heist storyline a few issues ago, …
Starslayer #21-23
With Morrigan, the death goddess who kind of looks like someone the X-Men would have taken on around this time, shows up in issue #20, Torin wakes from his coma to tell everyone that she lives, one of those "THIS IS IMPORTANT!" moments that a show can throw your way. Is it? I'm not entirely …
Starslayer #19, 20
So I mentioned a few reviews ago that it's clear that John Ostrander was establishing a new status quo for Starslayer. But unlike the many times I have seen this done in comics and on television, there wasn't one issue where the supporting cast was jettisoned in favor of a new group of sidekicks and a …
Starslayer #18
You notice two things about Starslayer #18 right away: it's a full-length story that teams our heroes up with Grimjack (who is about to get his own book) and it's printed on better paper, which if it isn't Baxter paper is pretty close. The price hadn't changed, though. We open with Torin at the prison and going …
Grimjack: Buried Past
So this isn't a "keep, sell, donate, or trash" type of comic because a couple of issues into John Ostrander's run on Starslayer, First was publishing backup stories featuring his and Tim Truman's creation Grimjack. This isn't anything new to the comic--as I noted, issue #2 of the Pacific Comics series is going to prove to …
Starslayer #16, 17
So ... is Torin crazy? Or is everyone out to betray him? Well, when #16's main action takes place, it seems like the former because he's going after whom he thinks are assassins and mowing them down to the point where Tamara literally fights him on it. I guess it doesn't help that he walked …
Starslayer #14, 15
When I saw the next issue blurb at the end of issue #13 that Tim Truman was going to take over pencils, I got excited. Oh yeah, I had been enjoying the art up to this point, but I really liked his artwork on the Hawkworld series as well as his work on The Kents, and even though …
