I turned six years old in 1983 and my parents did a pretty good job at sheltering me from the violence of the real world. All I knew from violence was Star Wars and the cartoons that I was watching before and after school. I had no idea that in the early 1980s, America was …
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A Valiant Effort: Turok, Dinosaur Hunter
The Valiant Effort comes to a close with one of the company's most notable titles, a book that had its origins in the Gold Key series Turok Son of Stone and made a chromium splash when its first issue hit because it was so over-ordered and so de-valued by speculators that it became a symbol …
A Valiant Effort: Solar, Man of the Atom
The penultimate title in the stack was one of the more marquee characters in Valiant's lineup, a character that like Magnus and Turok, was published by another comic company back in the 1960s and to my knowledge is not part of the current Valiant lineup--in fact, I think that the relaunch was only with the …
A Valiant Effort: The H.A.R.D. Corps and Magnus Robot Fighter
I'm doing two series in one entry because there were only three total comics for both of them: The H.A.R.D. Corps #16 and 21 and Magnus Robot Fighter #24. Plus, I have more to say about the latter than the former. I vaguely remember the H.A.R.D. Corps from the Deathmate crossover and I think the …
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The Invitation
So this was a movie that I'd had in the queue for a couple of years because I'd seen a trailer for it on IMDb (as you do) and it looked like a good, creepy horror movie. The premise is that Will (Logan-Marshall Green) and his new girlfriend Kira (Emayatzy Corinealdi) are invited to a …
A Valiant Effort: Eternal Warrior
Maybe it's my love of Highlander, maybe it's because I liked him in the Valiant reboot The Valiant (which I have in trade), but I was looking forward to Eternal Warrior more than a number of the other series that I have already written about. The idea of an immortal who has longtime enemies and …
Transformers: The Movie
Does my '80s kid card get revoked if I tell you that I honestly cannot remember when I first saw this movie? I'm serious. This film came out on August 8, 1986 and I know I did not see it in the theater on opening weekend (more than likely, we were doing something centered around …
A Valiant Effort: Bloodshot
These two comics, Bloodshot #6 and 7, are a bit of a cheat because I had read them before. In fact, I brought #6 to an episode of "Back to the Bins" a number of years ago and we all more or less gave it a C. But I wanted to reread them because I was reading …
Quickie Movie Reviews
I've watched so many movies in the last few weeks of my summer break that I'm having problems keeping track of them all and I'm also having trouble keeping up with my mandate to review what I've been watching. So I decided that I'd do a post with quickie movie reviews. If I own the …
A Valiant Effort: Archer & Armstrong
So the Valiant Universe seems to have been pretty tightly created from the get go, with the same villains showing up in different books and characters being related to one another in some way. From what I understand, there are three immortals walking around and they are brothers. One of them is the Eternal Warrior, …
The Uncollecting 