Michael May’s Adventureblog

Archive for May, 2005

May
31

Mailbag

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In the mailbox today: a copy of Graphic Classics Volume 12: Adventure Classics! This is going straight to the top of the review pile (right after The Coffin, with which I’m almost done) because I love Graphic Classics and I love adventure stories.

May
31

Review: PULL LIST 5/25/05

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Last week’s Pull List is up, which catches me up on that for a couple of days anyway. This time it covers:

Legion of Super-Heroes #6
Adventures of Superman #640
The OMAC Project #2
Day of Vengeance #2
Outsiders #24
Hellblazer #208
Captain America #6
The Amazing Spider-Man #520
X-Men #170
Rogue #11
Runaways #4
The Expatriate #2
Billy the Kid’s Old Timey Oddities #2
The Grimoire #3

I’m trying to keep the Pull List relatively spoiler-free from now on. No one’s complained yet, but it’s come to my attention that people are actually reading that column for recommendations. Who knew?

May
31

Mailbag

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In the mailbox today: a copy of Graphic Classics Volume 12: Adventure Classics! This is going straight to the top of the review pile (right after The Coffin, with which I’m almost done) because I love Graphic Classics and I love adventure stories.

May
31

Review: PULL LIST 5/25/05

Filed Under comics

Last week’s Pull List is up, which catches me up on that for a couple of days anyway. This time it covers:

Legion of Super-Heroes #6
Adventures of Superman #640
The OMAC Project #2
Day of Vengeance #2
Outsiders #24
Hellblazer #208
Captain America #6
The Amazing Spider-Man #520
X-Men #170
Rogue #11
Runaways #4
The Expatriate #2
Billy the Kid’s Old Timey Oddities #2
The Grimoire #3

I’m trying to keep the Pull List relatively spoiler-free from now on. No one’s complained yet, but it’s come to my attention that people are actually reading that column for recommendations. Who knew?

May
26

Catching Up: CWN Reviews and Salome

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I honestly don’t feel like I’ve been slacking off, but I have very little writing to show for the past week. Even my online activity has taken a hit.

I’m playing catch up now though and just posted a couple of reviews at CWN as well as a column at Pop Thought about how I’m sick of writing about Revelations, so I’m not gonna do it anymore.

The first CWN review I posted is of Moonstone’s first compilation of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries. It’s written by a local guy named Martin Powell. I worked with Martin’s girlfriend one Christmas at Barnes & Noble and finally got around to buying his book at last year’s FallCon. That I’ve just now read it tells you how far behind I am on my reading list. I’m currently reading Phil Hester’s The Coffin, also purchased at last year’s FallCon.

What’s sadder than that is that the other CWN review is last week’s Pull List. If I was on the ball, I would’ve posted this week’s Pull List today.

May
26

Catching Up: CWN Reviews and Salome

Filed Under mystery, sherlock holmes

I honestly don’t feel like I’ve been slacking off, but I have very little writing to show for the past week. Even my online activity has taken a hit.

I’m playing catch up now though and just posted a couple of reviews at CWN as well as a column at Pop Thought about how I’m sick of writing about Revelations, so I’m not gonna do it anymore.

The first CWN review I posted is of Moonstone’s first compilation of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries. It’s written by a local guy named Martin Powell. I worked with Martin’s girlfriend one Christmas at Barnes & Noble and finally got around to buying his book at last year’s FallCon. That I’ve just now read it tells you how far behind I am on my reading list. I’m currently reading Phil Hester’s The Coffin, also purchased at last year’s FallCon.

What’s sadder than that is that the other CWN review is last week’s Pull List. If I was on the ball, I would’ve posted this week’s Pull List today.

May
22

3ddd Ad

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Speaking of ads, here’s one for Three Days the Devil Danced that will be running in the Students of the Unusual horror anthology.

May
21

3ddd Ad

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Speaking of ads, here’s one for Three Days the Devil Danced that will be running in the Students of the Unusual horror anthology.

May
18

Quoted

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While I certainly don’t want to be the kind of critic who writes to get quoted, it still feels nice when someone appreciates an honest review enough to want to use it to sell his book.

Coming soon to The Comics Journal:

May
18

Great Curve: Barbie’s Indie Cred

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I can’t believe I did a Great Curve post about Barbie.