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, …
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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 …
Starslayer #11, 12, 13
With a solid issue under his belt, John Ostrander moves into the multi-part storyline here with a last hurrah from Lenin Delsol and Mike Gustovish (although at least one of these issues is a "Man E. Hands" inking job) as the the past starts catching up to someone other than Torin. Like I said, I …
Starslayer #9
I'm covering only one issue here because I'm missing issue #10 and this marks the only place (aside from issues #1-4) where I have a gap in my run of Starslayer. It also marks the point where Mike Grell turned over the writing chores to John Ostrander, although the art team of Lenin Dustol and …
Starslayer #7, 8
"He's back! And he's here to stay!" So says the cover of issue #7 of Starslayer, the first one published by First Comics in 1983 following the conclusion of the Pacific Comics series two years earlier. In fact, the inside cover of issue #7 has a text piece by Mike Gold that tells the entire story …
The Uncollecting 