Adam Warlock and the Magus (Forgotten Gems)

(Originally posted on November 30, 2016) Adam Warlock was a Marvel Comics character who first turned up in the pages of Fantastic Four in 1967.  Cobbled together by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and originally called ‘Him’, Warlock appeared sporadically for several years.  Roy Thomas later turned him into a kind of superhero messiah, inspired […]

Wendy Pini: An Artist Who Needs More Love

(Originally posted on August 31, 2016) Back in my youth in the early eighties, I ran across an indie comic at a science fiction convention.  It was called Elfquest. I had never seen a comic like this before.  It was in a larger format, was detailed black & white and didn’t have superheroes or any […]

The Lords of Dus by Lawrence Watt-Evans

(Originally posted on August 9, 2016) The Lords of Dus were the first fantasy novels I ever read by Lawrence Watt-Evans–way, way back in the early 80s.  I’d seen the four novels sitting on the rack at Waldenbooks for a while and finally decided to give the first one, The Lure of the Basilisk, a […]