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" …
Category: Reviews
Blood Sisters
So New Jersey has a pretty good track record when it comes to independent, low-budget movies and when I saw someone on social media link to this very random low budget horror flick from 1987 released by Cannon, I was intrigued. I mean, I love a good shitty horror movie and Cannon=boobs, so ... good, …
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Sitting somewhere in a mental queue and eventually knocked off of my Hulu list, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a movie that I was always interested in watching but at the same time didn't exactly want to see because of my job as a high school teacher. I guess that's why it took me four …
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 …
