Author: Blaise Tassone
After the perceived so-called ‘Star Wars fatigue’ that accompanied the ‘Han Solo’ movie, Disney recently pulled the plug on releasing any more Star Wars stories for a while. It appears that nothing remotely similar is affecting the Spider-man brand at the moment. With ‘Spider-man Homecoming’ having...
With the Disney buyout of Fox Entertainment properties now almost certain to go through, we comic speculators are left with no small amount of work in reflecting on just what will happen with the newly acquired Marvel properties: the extended Spider-man universe, the X-Men franchise and,...
This is the third post looking at the Marvel Bronze Age Sword and Sorcery comics that were based on Robert E. Howard’s Hyborean world. Kull, the king of Valusia, is the character I want to focus on in this installment. These comics were wonderful adaptations of...
Red Sonya of Rogatino was originally another Robert E. Howard creation. In her initial presentation she was more of a red-haired pirate woman than a barbarian. She first appears in the Howard story “Shadow of the Vulture” from 1934. This story is set in the 16th...
Having completed a deal this January that saw the rights for the title return to them from Dark Horse Comics, beginning in 2019, Marvel will once again publish comics featuring Conan the Barbarian. This will mark something of a homecoming for Conan. Robert E. Howard’s famous...
Written billions of years ago by the Elder god Chthon or ‘the Other’, the Darkhold is one of the most powerful Grimoires in the Marvel Universe. Also known as the ‘Book of Sins’ or the ‘Shiatra Book of the Damned,’ the Darkhold forms part of the...
Early pre-code horror comics are valuable, and the reason for their lasting appeal is, no doubt, because the writers and artists who created them had the freedom to present tales that could disturb without having to self-censor. They inevitably brought forth macabre themes filled with occult...
Am I the only one who wants a Ka-zar Marvel movie? I can’t be. This character would be perfect for the big screen. Look at what Marvel did with Ant-Man and the Guardians. I can definitely see a super-hero take on Tarzan being a big hit....
Seeing the Endless Dream (Morpheus) in Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Dark Nights: Metal #4, had me reminiscing about the excellent old Neil Gaiman Sandman series. Warner Brothers has apparently been planning a 'Sandman' feature film since 1996. That’s a long time. According to those...
We’ve all heard it said: “don’t judge a book by its cover”, but in the comic collecting world some books have an exaggerated value precisely because of the standout covers they were published with. In an age of professional grading this trend is somewhat understandable. Once...