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CONAN and the JEWELS OF GWAHLUR:
I reached my goal (of reading through Marvel's Conan #57) on July 24, but I continued reading select "Conan" comics and stories beyond that and read my last one on Augest 24. I have never read "The Jewels of Gwaglur" before in any form, comic book adaptation or original, but after reading comics drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith and John Buscema, I felt the desire to read a story adapted by P. Craig Russell. For many years, the Thomas/Smith adaptation of "Red Nails" had been my favorite Conan comic book story, but "Jewels of Gwahlur" may just supplant it. Russell's Conan looks much more like Smith's than Buscema's (and more like Robert Howard's), and I've read enough REH originals by now to realize that Russell lifted much of Howard's prose verbatim (as did Thomas before him). I have no further plans to read more Conan comics anytime soon (although I may read the comic strips at some point), but in the future I can see myself reading Dark Horse's 2004 series by Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord.
WEDNESDAY COMICS: After reading the "Green Lantern" serial, while I still had Wednesday Comics out I read some of my other favorites: The Flash, Supergirl, Kamandi and Sgt. Rock.
BATMAN BLACK & WHITE COMPENDIUM: I 'm now up to p.191.
The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe #1
THE SHAOLIN COWBOY: STAYING A.I.LIVE #3: "After escaping an ICY reception in small-town Amerigunn, the Shoalin Cowboy must now deal with an army of COLA-CRAZED ROBOTS, and these chatbots aren't interested in chitchat! They are only interested in finding a final solution to the Cowboy's immigration status. Will the cowboy's unique mix of Shaolin, Tai Chi, Wing Chun, Hung Gar, Bak Mei, Choi Li Fut, Chagquan, Xingyiquan, Karate, laido, and Majong be enough to stop Emil Cola's deadly engines of VENGEANCE????"
CAPES #11: It was Capes that inspired me read Invincible in its entirety. Now that I'm finished with that, I need to go back and re-read Capes from the beginning. It's not as good as Invincible, but it's far better than any team super-hero book put out by the "Big Two" currently on the market.
TERMINAL #3: This one hasn't really clicked with me (yet), but given its pedigree, I'm willing to give it a few more issues. Whereas Capes is light-hearted (more or less), Terminal is "grim 'n' gritty."
CATACOMB OF TORMENT #15: See comments HERE.
I left my LCS today without buying anything new (any new periodicals, anyway). That happens infrequently enough that I always note it here.
BATMAN BLACK & WHITE COMPENDIUM: I 'm now up to p.295.
Well, recently...
We have a mini-mini (and a sticker) sold by a local at the Punk Market last weekend. The other two I ordered from a company that collects available material and publishes them according to themes. They're inexpensive and fun reads, though the quality varies dramatically, and they provide no notes regarding where any of these stories and jokes were published originally. Some of the stories provide the names of the authors/illustrators, and there are other context clues. They make up for the lapses somewhat with interesting covers.
Hippie Hits includes pieces by Crumb, Skip Williamson, Vaughn Bodē, and lots of people I'd never be able to identify. It's possible that a few of these creators wouldn't be able to identify their own work from this volume.
Gaslight Gallery features stories that try to convince you of things that aren't true adaptations of Victorian mystery stories, more recent Victorian/Edwardian-set horror comic tales, and some unexpected oddities, including one gag that appears to be from an old issue of Mad.
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE:
I bought this IDW reprint of Marvel's 1979 magazine-size movie adaptation in 2019 knowing that I would read it someday in October 2026. It is scripted by Marv Wolfman, penciled by Dave Cockrum and inked by Klaus Janson. Wolfman deviates from the movie script from time-to-time. Sometimes the reasons behind those deviations are obvious (such as giving the security guadr's line "Carbon-based units?" to Kirk, sometimes they are not (such as the assertion that Vulcan has "no art, no music, no poetry"). I admire the work of both Cockrum and Janson, but their respective talents are mismatched here. Following Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Paramount set out to make Star Trek: The Motion Picture a special effects extravaganza, and they succeeded. I generally prefer comic books to movies because of comics' unlimited "special effects budget," but Cockrum really dropped the ball here.
…..the assertion that Vulcan has "no art, no music, no poetry")
In season 1, episode 2 of Star Trek TOS, Spock is seen playing a musical instrument (and also smiling).
He also jammed with the "space hippies," and he and his father took first and second place in the All-Vulcan Music Competition. In one episode he quipped to Uhura that "Vulcan has no moon," yet TMP clearly showed two large celestial bodies in Vulcan's sky. I always took that as evidence that Spock does indeed have a sense of humor, but that scene was "corrected" in the "director's cut" of TMP. In "The Corbomite Maneuver," Spock also joked that Bailey shold look into having his adrenal gland removed. As Sulu said to Tuvok, "And don't tell me Vulcan's don't haver a sense of humor because I know they do."
Let's face it. They no more worked out the details of Vulcans and their culture before season one aired (other than they had pointy ears and were logical) than Lucas knew anything about the Clone Wars when he shot Star Wars (other than cloning was trendy science news at the time).
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