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If I may correct one small point: the Complete chronicles of Conan: centenary edition presents the stories as they were published in Weird Tales, and not as the modified versions that saw print under...

Not forced per se, because I can't seriously entertain the idea of buying as many new comics as I did in the 70s or 80s. Even with a proper salary instead of the money I used to get from my paper...

Sweeeeeeet! (or is that "dulce"?)

One of the most beautifully drawn comics ever!

I'm halfway through volume 1 of Manning's Gold key Tarzan comics (reprinted by Dark Horse)... and he's still the one for me.

Sweet indeed.

Pagnol is an author I feel compelled to read aloud, just so I can do the accent. Hopefully without too many people around!

We have two unofficial cats on top of our "real" one. The First is an old white tom we named Leo; he lived in the neighbourhood before we arrived here ten years ago, and he knows he'll always find...

John Severin artwork and movie spoofs? How could I not miss Cracked?

Yeah, it was a lot of fun. My favorite Mad-style magazine, in fact.

The four-pawed members of our families have shorter lives than we do, but even if we know it intellectually it's always hard to have to let them go at some point. I never could accept it, and I miss...

I don't know if it's quite old enough to be considered a classic (not quite ten years), but I've been reading the start of the Vertigo title Fables thanks to the trade paperbacks of our public...

That's a fair assessment. Shooter didn't have Claremont's ability to involve us into a character's personal problems, but neither did he have Claremont's tics... (I won't... can't go there). He did...

Saw the new Star Trek film with my son yestrday... It was all manners of cool. The movie itself is a lot of fun, but seeing how the kid is now a kid no longer but an adult I'm proud of and appy to be...

Uncanny X-Men #115 made me an instant fan of Chris Claremont and John Byrne. I had bought a French translation of issue 101 a year or so before that, but I suppose it doesn't quite count.

Chris Claremont, during the real X-Men golden age, seemed determined to prove that you didn't need any specific character to make the book work. After Jean died, he had Cyclops walk away. He had...

Well, in all martial arts where the goal is a knock-down, elegance is sacrificed to efficiency and many techniques tend to look alike from one sport to the next, because they're pared down to their...

Same here, but in Kyokushin.

I'm sure you'll join me in assuring mrc that it's a great sport, and that it develops cardio and muscle power as well as flexibility. (But then I may not be totally...

Respect !!!

Karate!!!

It's my solution to everything.

You said it, so I won't! Good job, Stephen.

Or I'd simply never bring Jean back, and leave Scott and Maddie to live happily ever after in Alaska. Or as long as can be in comics.

Noted! I've just watched the haunted palace on Youtube, and although it's not what I'd call a proper adaptation it was still a lot of fun. So even if Dagon does not stick to the chapter and verse of...

Magical is the word, dan. Not in that his work was close to reality, but in that he managed to make us believe in it. Such magic is found at the theatre or in the illusionist's art, but less and less...

I'm embarrassed never to have even thought of it! Good call, sir!

You know, I did sympathize with old Greenskin back in the Trimpe days, when he was essentially a child in a monster's body. Sure, he was strong as nobody's business, but people kept hounding him for...

In the old days, that would have lasted all of five seconds. I mean, the old dude killed Death with just a gesture at one point, just to save his son!

And how can a bad guy who was beaten by...

I don't like the idea that Tony Stark might have an "origin", that he might be anything else than a normal kid who grew up to be pretty smart and good at engineering. I usually find that...

Yes they did, and the whole idea behind their creation was just to have a team that could go at least two rounds against the X-Men. They were really meant to be supporting characters, not to try out...