I kind of missed Valiant's revival at its height, which probably happened because it came about during a time when I was either completely out of comics or minimally involved. I ran across their booth at the Baltimore Comic-Con one year, though, and bought a couple of trades, and every once in a while, I …
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Three Random Non-Fantasy Comics for September
While most of my comics this month were for #FantasyComicsMonth, I did have a few that I read that were of the "normal" type (read: superheroes), most of which came from DC or Marvel grab bags I picked up at my LCS because dammit if I can't resist the lure of a randomly selected bag …
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Sword of Sorcery #1
I'm going to close out my #FantasyComicsMonth comics with this one, a book that DC Comics published in 1973 and which bears one of the names of the genre. It's not an "origin of the genre" comic, especially because sword and sorcery books have been around for quite a long time, but I do think …
Marvel Preview #22
I'd say that if it's not the discount trades shelves that are the foul temptress of my LCS, it's the magazine longboxes. That's where I've been finding a lot of the old-school Marvel Graphic Novels as well as old 'Nam Magazine, and this particular book. Marvel Preview, to my knowledge, was a catch-all series that …
The Raven Banner: A Tale of Asgard (Marvel Graphic Novel #15)
With #FantasyComicsMonth being this month, I held on to a number of things, one of which was this graphic novel, which was written by Alan Zelenetz and illustrated by Charles Vess. Being "A Tale of Asgard," it is set in the world of the Thor comics but does not feature Thor; in fact, he has …
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JLA: Riddle of the Beast
Elseworlds books were fascinating to me when they first appeared in the early 1990s, and while I didn't get all of them (mostly because the $4.95 price tag was a bit too much at the time), I got my hands on a fair share, especially a number of the Batman ones (of which there were …
Robin Hood (Eclipse Comics) #1-3
I probably should confess that the definitive Robin Hood story for me involves a fox and a singing rooster. Sorry, but the 1970s Disney movie remains my all-time favorite Disney cartoon, and even though I've seen the Kevin Costner Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (because I think we were all required to see that at …
Groo the Wanderer #37 and #61
Well, after Conan, Red Sonja, and Thor, where do you go? Gotta go with Groo. I remember seeing issues of Groo in my LCS back when I was collecting G.I. Joe and The Transformers in 1986-1987. It looked like a silly comic book and I may have even flipped through an issue or two that …
Thor Vol 2. #44 (Legacy #546)
I know that Thor is a superhero, but I think there's enough crossover between Asgard and the Avengers for a #FantasyComicsMonth tag. So after getting this issue in a Marvel Comics Grab Bag at my LCS, I decided to save it for September. "As Lives A Memory …" is part of a Marvel gimmick month …
Red Sonja FCBD 2022 Special
I did the one Conan the Barbarian comic I own, so why not do Red Sonja? Like a lot of you, I love Free Comic Book Day. Because it's free comics. That's pretty much it. Okay, I also love the sales that my LCS puts on around FCBD, which in the past netted me some …
The Uncollecting 