Promethea – Book 1
Jul23

Promethea – Book 1

Promethea Book 1 Down from the Attic: 4   Back in the day, before Promethea went into the Attic, not to emerge for another fifteen years, this was the Alan Moore comic series that I had expected to have the most difficulty with. Now I can’t remember why, much less the reason I never bought Book 2.  Life just got in the way, perhaps. I seem to remember that a lot of the fans that I met in Dublin’s Forbidden Planet and then when I moved...

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The Chronicles of Conan : Volume 10
Jul03

The Chronicles of Conan : Volume 10

The Chronicles of Conan Volume 10 When Giants Walk the Earth And Other Stories   With the talented embellisher Ernie Chan back to inking artist John Buscema’s work at the end of the previous volume of the collected Roy Thomas-penned Conan comics of the ‘70s,  we hit a run of visually arresting issues that are rarely anything other than an absolute treat. And we have full evidence of  that on the very first (title) page of Conan the...

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Daredevil : Love and War
Jun13

Daredevil : Love and War

Daredevil: Love and War Down from the Attic: 3  I’m the first to admit that I’m well out of the loop on what’s happening with modern comic books; but Good Lord, what the hell put the zap on writer Frank Miller’s head?  I looked up a recent interview just after finishing this Golden Oldie and he both looks and sounds like he has the fried brain pan of somebody who has had some serious substance abuse issues in recent years. Then I...

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Arkham Tales Legends of the Haunted City
Jun08

Arkham Tales Legends of the Haunted City

Arkham Tales Legends of the Haunted City Edited and Introduced by William Jones An Occasional Look at Lovecraftian Anthologies: 5   I’m not going to devote too much time to this 2006 Chaosium Inc.  anthology.  It’s not that it’s particularly bad (although it certainly isn’t particularly good).  It’s just that I’m not really the person that it’s aimed at; and as I read the introduction it quickly became apparent that I had made a...

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The Chronicles of Conan Volume 9 Riders of the River-Dragons
Jun06

The Chronicles of Conan Volume 9 Riders of the River-Dragons

The Chronicles of Conan Volume 9 Riders of the River-Dragons And Other Stories     No complaints about the title of this volume:  exciting, evocative, beautifully pulpish and just rolls off the tongue. At the end of our last outing, we saw our favourite wandering Cimmerian settle down for a life of piracy aboard the Tigress as it sailed off the shores of the Black Coast, with Bêlit at his side — the beautiful and...

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Low Moon by Jason
May15

Low Moon by Jason

Putting the Dead in Deadpan: Low Moon by Jason   My God, what a find!  If ever you needed just one reason (in my case it’s yet another reason) to haunt second-hand bookshops, then it is the unadulterated pleasure of coming across something like this! I picked up Low Moon by someone called Jason simply because I noticed that it was published by Fantagraphics Books; and back in the day when I really collected this kind of stuff,...

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