My Rating “Battle Of The Black Stone” “A Stone’s Throw Away” Jim Zub begins this issue of Savage Sword Of Conan with a preface of back history, so to speak. In this introduction, we find out just what inspired the writers and producers at Titan Comics in the pre-production days of their Conan revival. Zub […]
My Rating “Night Of The Screaming House!” Dracula has kidnapped the daughter of vampire hunter, Quincy Harker. Now Frank Drake and his team of motley slayers must infiltrate the vampire’s newest sanctuary, known only as Whispering Hell. While they race through the fog-covered suburbs of eastern London, Dracula makes a unanimous phone call to his
My Rating “Safe Once More” With the full spectrum lights disabled all around Madison Square Garden, Reed Richards helps fend off a new mob of vampires breaching the perimeter. Within minutes, the situation becomes dire as Alicia discovers blood pouring freely from Reed’s wounds sustained yesterday during the first wave of attacks in Manhattan. The
My Rating “What Happened To Nightcrawler?” Depression can affect anyone at any time. For Kurt Wagner, the mutant known as Nightcrawler among his X-Men peers, had been suffering from the condition for months now. Ever since the god-like alien known as the Beyonder had teleported Earth’s mightiest superheroes to another world, then made them fight
My Rating “Conan: Wolves Of The Tundra” The trap had been laid, or so the family thought. A savage, created by the very curse which flowed through their own veins, had been systematically killing those responsible for infecting him. Now the beast was at their front door looking to end the nightmare with a ferocious
My Rating “Bog Beast” The monster had crawled from the dark ooze filling the La Brea Tar Pits, searching for knowledge of the surface world above him. His kind had tunneled deep into the earth during the last ice age, but their elders grew weary in the dark places not meant for the living. In
My Rating “The Demon Is Dying” In a frozen valley of Skaaland, a tyrant sits on a throne of blood. This monster has dominated the country and its people for decades, but his tyranny is about to end. The church bishop has devised a plan to starve the demon named Kandelrue by stopping his never-ending
My Rating “The Voodoo-Man!” Dracula has returned to the cobblestone streets of Covent Garden, a shopping district of old London, to seek those who had tried to destroy him. The night air is thick with icy smog, but for the undead this is a welcome nuisance. Vampires often use the weather to their advantage when
My Rating “The Lurker Behind The Door!” Out of the frying pan and into the fire! Can Jack Russell survive a third night of the change without being assaulted by supernatural forces? Not if the Warlock named Amos Treach has anything to say about it. Figuratively, that is. Now free from Swami Rihvia and
My Rating “Ritual Of Blood” High above in the night sky, the full moon was waxing over southern California. Far below, a screaming roar burst forth from inside a large circus tent. Inside the scene was that of grizzly primordial combat. Jack Russell, the Werewolf By Night, was being throttled by three African Lions. Leading
