Comic Book Review: Karl the Viking Volume II: The Voyage of the Sea Raiders stories by Ted Cowan, Michael Moorcock; art by Don Lawrence Karl is Saxon by birth, sometime in the 11th Century. He was adopted early in his youth by Danish chieftain Eingar the Manslayer, who’d been impressed by his father’s courage. Karl… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Karl the Viking Volume II: The Voyage of the Sea Raiders
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Comic Book Review: Lumberjanes Volume 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
Comic Book Review: Lumberjanes Volume 1: Beware the Kitten Holy Written by N.D. Stevenson & Grace Ellis, art by Gus Allen Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Girls Hardcore Lady Types! It’s a summer camp connected to the Lumberjanes organization, an outdoorsy scouting organization something like the Campfire Girls or Girl… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Lumberjanes Volume 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #8: Legion of Super-Heroes
Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #8: Legion of Super-Heroes edited by Jack C. Harris We’re skipping quite a few stories of the Legion of Super-Heroes since the last digest I posted about. This collection reprints the Legion stories from Adventure Comics #355-357 plus stories from Superboy #198 and #202. By this point,… Continue reading Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #8: Legion of Super-Heroes
Comic Book Review: Batman & Superman in World’s Finest Comics: The Silver Age Volume 1
Comic Book Review: Batman & Superman in World’s Finest Comics: The Silver Age Volume 1 edited by Jack Schiff with various writers and artists Superman was first published in 1938, with Batman following in 1939, swiftly becoming the two biggest sellers for National Comics, which would become DC Comics. Despite the obvious synergy potential of… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Batman & Superman in World’s Finest Comics: The Silver Age Volume 1
Comic Book Review: Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 4–Let There Be Battle
Comic Book Review: Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 4–Let There Be Battle written by Stan Lee, pencils by Marie Severin, various inkers This volume collects the tail end of the Hulk’s run in Tales to Astonish, the first issue of his solo continuing series, and a couple of stories from Not Brand Echh.… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 4–Let There Be Battle
Comic Book Review: Dork Tower Volume X: The Tao of Igor
Comic Book Review: Dork Tower Volume X: The Tao of Igor by John Kovalic Igor Olman has been studying the Tao, a system of philosophy which includes living in harmony with “the Way”, self-cultivation and accordance with the natural order. He’s very enthusiastic about it, as he is about most things, “HUZZAH!”, and has been… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Dork Tower Volume X: The Tao of Igor
Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #4: Green Lantern
Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #4: Green Lantern edited by Jack C. Harris This volume contains six stories of the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, mostly about first appearances of certain concepts. “The Planet of Doomed Men” story by John Broome, art by Gil Kane & Murphy Anderson, was in Green… Continue reading Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #4: Green Lantern
Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts
Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts written by Christopher Cantwell, art by Megan Levens One of the running jokes among Star Trek fans, especially when talking about the original series, is the “redshirts”, characters whose only purpose in the story is to die to establish that the situation was dangerous and how the danger… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503 edited by Nicola Cuti All good things must come to an end, they say, and this digest issue was the last one of the original Adventure Comics run. (It would be picked up again as a title 2009-11 before being cancelled for the New 52 reboot.) At the end… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503
Comic Book Review: Neil Armstrong Walks on the Moon
Comic Book Review: Neil Armstrong Walks on the Moon written by Nel Yomtov, illustrations by Samir Barrett and Dave Wheeler Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first human to walk on the moon in 1969 as part of the Apollo 11 mission to that satellite of Earth. This… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Neil Armstrong Walks on the Moon