Rhonda looks terrific! Great that she’s doing well! I hope she can keep Roger in line. 🐶

Tales from the crypt? Roger could tell you tales from the crypt!!

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 ай бұрын

Yes he could.

Skeleton Crew contains my favorite SK story ever -- Mrs. Todd's Shortcut. Dang, I'm jealous of that story!

Always pleased when Rhonda opens the video. I noticed, when I began reading ECs in the 90s with the Gemstone and Russ Cochran reprints, that each issue was taking me 3 times longer to read than the new comics I read like FF and Justice League. I realised that this was because the ECs had such intricate, beautiful art and clever writing that I might spend half an hour on each 8 page tale. Today, with the over-in-15-minutes style of modern comics, reading ECs is time very well invested and the result is much more satisfying. My top 3 Thor runs: Lee/Kirby, Simonson, Dan Jurgens (1998 series). Barry Windsor-Smith got better and better with each issue of Conan - amazing detail and glorious colours. Time for me to re-read "Skeleton Crew".

Mythago Wood is one of my favourite books of all time. It’s easily a 5 star book for me.

@Charlie_Duz

2 ай бұрын

Hear! Hear! It's a terrific read. 🌳🌳🧟‍♂️🌳

@salty-walt

Ай бұрын

Definitely! A step above so many! Magical!

The Conan comics collection looks great. Titan too. King's prose is great for the average reader. I have many King books in my early favorites that truly helped me develop my reading tastes, They have not aged as well as some other authors in the same group. I feel like / make up if King had a little more flourish, poetry, or maybe beauty (horrific or otherwise) to his writing then the length might be warranted. His books have a slightly sterile feeling to them sometimes.

Titan's Conan series is so good it makes we wish they would start a brand new ELRIC series to match their terrific ETERNAL CHAMPION / MULTIVERSE reprints.

I still need to buy those Walt Simonson Thors! Good stuff Michael.

that original Conan series even has an Elric crossover and delicious art

ronda scared the bejesus out of me I thought I had a wolf behind me!

I kinda wonder how many bookcases Michael has in his house.😂😂😂😮

It's rare that l read a book and become sad as l approach the end, not wanting it to end. Lonesome Dove was a book like that. Ball Four was also another great summer read that l hated to finish. I will seek out Mythago Wood, as l am intrigued. And l will go back to reread that great Simonson THOR run! Thanks again!

I LOVED Mythago Wood and have read three of the sequels. So good!

No editor had the balls to clip King's work cause he was the golden goose of publishing. That's why his work is reminiscent of the French city, Toulon, cause it's all effin "too long." If he were starting a career now, it would be an entirely different story...pun intended. King would be lucky to be an Earl.

Thanks for the update, Michael. I too enjoyed some of what they were doing in West Coast Avengers, especially the John Byrne stuff; although I was disappointed with what they did to Vision. Happy reading, everyone.

I listened this on my quality headphones because my neighbors decided that Sunday is a great time for home renovation and Ronda made this really cinematic experience as she growled right behind me 😂 I must say I first thought: this is weird noise behind me, it didn’t even register to me it’s a part of the video until you addressed it😅

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 ай бұрын

Ha! Sorry!

I like the comic book videos.

I love your comic book videos! Keep them coming. The X-Men in the 70's, 80's and 90's are my favorite X-Men to read. I loved those eras. Anyway going to have to pick up Epic X-Men 24. So I've read Skeleton Crew and The Jaunt and The Mist are probably my favorite. But "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" is pretty good too. I also read this week Conan Blood of the Serpent by S.M. Stirling, with the Robert E. Howards Story Red Nails in this book as well. I really enjoyed this because they left Robert E Howards story Red Nails along and the rest of the book was a prequel to that story. This was my first time reading Red Nails and it was damn good. A very fun story, and I got a much better understanding of Valeria's Character as well.

Blimey, I'm an inveterate 4-starer in goodreads too, not sure why it should be that way 😆

Strange .. you'd think Roger would like comicbooks, all the temples, monuments, and tombs back home look like they're covered in stylised comics with those hieroglyphs. My reading report for this week .. still nibbling my way through the Earl Aubec and Other Stories anthology.

Just read Mythago Wood this week. Loved it. It certainly lingers with you. About to start the sequel.

I actually do like the Comic Book Videos....reminds me of my kidhood.

Love it! I have fond memories of reading Skeleton Crew on breaks during my delivery driver job in the 90s! (I probably haven't even read all of the stories yet!

I often go back and adjust my rating of a book when it really sticks with me.

"Stock Stephen King characters." So true.

BWS's and RT's Hawks from the Sea was my first Conan story ever. I got it at a thrift shop when I was 12 and totally freaked out over how great it was. They sold 3 comics wrapped in a plastic sack for 25¢. I could see the comic in front and the back one was facing outward, but could not see the one in the middle very well. They all had the top 2 inches of the covers chopped off. T.T But comic books were so difficult to find back then I was happy to find any really. So I guess BWS turned in the artwork late and half of it didn't get inked by the amazing Dan Adkins. Too bad, since the penciled only pages didn't print so well on the cheap comic book paper of the time. T.T The interior pages you showed looked amazing on that really nice paper!

Despite my occasional misgivings with his art style, I think Barry Smith's run on Conan is very underrated. Some of his backgrounds are just fantastical. He captures Howard's Hyborian Age in a very unique way.

I had not heard of Mythago Wood, but it sounds interesting. I’ve added it to my to-read list.

Ernie Chan was my first Conan artist. He still sets the standard as.far as I am concerned. My first issue was Conan sneaking into Stygia with Belit. That was many decades ago and I can still picture most of the pages in my mind.

I won't say that I said Mythago Wood was brilliant, but... you know. lol. Great review! Lavondyss will be worth the wait.

I enjoy all your videos regardless of if they’re about novels or comics! Keep them coming!

That cover on Alone with the Horrors is so cool

Glad you liked Mythago. I’ve read it at three distinct points in my life so far and it hits different but just as hard each time.

Each comic issue qualifies as a book and ace doubles count as 2.

Jaunt is really good. I loved it and The Mist.

I never stick to a TBR even though I make them as making them are fun lol.

Titan Comics does a very good job on Conan . They must really be fans of the character.

I have an old copy of Mythago Wood lying around. You convinced me to move it on my TBR list. I just started Night Shift! Just read Quitters Inc.

Fingers crossed one of those comic book videos is about EC Frontline Combat 🤞🤞

Ah, the room where it is always a quarter to seven. AM or PM, who knows? I have a few of those Barry Smith comic books -- great stuff. Also an underground comic book by Jack (JAXON) Jackson where he does a Conan story in which a Frazetta-style Conan literally beats the face off another character drawn to look like a Smith-style Conan. Funny. I want to like all those EC comics, but the only ones that really grab me are the ones that Kurtzman had a hand in, specifically Two-Fisted Tales and Mad, mainly. I've always had Night Shift and Skeleton Crew on my "to be re-read" list -- the short story from is where I like King. Some of it may be juvenalia, but it's *good* juvenalia, dammit. I wish someone would devote the time and money afforded these EC archives to bringing out archival editions of Unknown/Unknown Worlds, the John Campbell edited pulp magazine. I have a couple of '60s paperback anthologies, and a late-40s best-of magazine, and after that, all I can do is read the first publication credits at the front of individual author collections. Wonderful stuff, and many Edd Cartier illustrations, fallen down a memory hole.

RHONDA! You will see a big difference between early Stepen King and the latter ones. I think most are better, but I hope you don't find them too tame. You might rethink the order, as I think reading The DarkTower/Gunslinger series is good back-to-back, although they were published over the course of decades. I think his publishers pressed for longer books, and extra grossness earlier on.

Titan comics are doing good. I’ll check out Mythago Wood.

I never do TBRs cos I never know when I'm going to be in the reading mood nor what I'm going to be in the mood for. Though for Horror May-hem I have made a list of possibilities; just not going to beat myself up if I don't get through them.

I loved Mythago Wood when I read it years ago. I went straight to the sequels, which were not as good IMO. I've often thought that I should have given them some time between to get a better perspective, so I think the challenge is helping you in this instance.

I'm glad Rhonda is recovering well! Mythago Wood looks interesting! I might have to check that one out! I'm also loving Titan's Conan comics too! Looking forward to catching up. And you might just convince me to pick up Simonson's Thor Omnibus yet. My wallet hates you lol.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

Ай бұрын

Sorry Wallet!

@danieltenney1896

Ай бұрын

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 lol between that and the Conan Omnibus reprints it could be an expensive fall.

Do you know that you can get great discounted graphic novels at Ollie's? The only thing is the wall they had them on appears to be shrinking down to one bookcase which means that the closeout warehouse they get these from is drying up due to the customers dipping into the books at the stores. Damn...😮😮😮

You know I never really latched on to the X-men. I admittedly haven't read much of their comics. I think it was because when I was in grade school everyone was a huge X-men fan. So I decided to be a Batman/DC fan. (Also Batman The Animated Series was really good.) I am a contrarian in a lot of ways. I have read the first two Wolverine Epic Collections which I enjoyed, but that was Wolverine mostly solo and done with a kind of pulp sensibility which is just more interesting to me then mutant soap opera.

You’re doing a 500 book challenge 😱

Nice reading report!

I hope the musical cue helped.

EC comics are great, but soooo wordy!

Rhonda does not love Thor 😂

Stop touching your tie is not going anywhere. 🤣🤣🤣

I always thought comic books should be included in the challenge. After all, they are called books. Glad to see Rhonda is doing better.🐕🦴

What’s the worst King book you have ever read?

@oddcreatureX

2 ай бұрын

The answer to that question will always be "Holly". So, so bad.

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