My New Comics

This week’s best cover is Haunt of Horror #1.


Jonah Hex #32, DC Comics. Hex in Mexico.

Doctor Who Classics #7, IDW. Daleks!

Tor #2, DC Comics. More prehistoric adventure.

Buckaroo Banzi: Return of the Screw #1, Moonstone. Red Lectroids from the 8th dimension are back.

Haunt of Horror #1, Marvel Comics. Richard Corben does Lovecraft.

Wrath of the Titans #4, Bluewater Comics.

The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #4, Marvel Comics.

The War that Time Forgot #2, DC Comics. A certain Robot shows up!

Omega the Unknown #9, Marvel Comics.

Red Sonja #34, Dynamite Entertainment.

The Evil Dead #4, Dark Horse Comics.

Avengers/Invaders #2, Marvel Comics.


Trade Paperbacks
Witness to War Transfuzion Publishing. Fictional account of a female reporter during the Battle of the Bulge.


-Swinebread

My New Comics

This week’s best cover is Jonah Hex #31.


The Man with No Name #1, Dynamite Entertainment. The MGM western character now has his own comic.

The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #3, Marvel Comics. Roland fights beyond Mid-Word.

Avengers/Invaders #1, Marvel Comics. Time Travel Hijack.

Jonah Hex #31, DC Comics. I think I like Jonah with sideburns.

Savage Tales #7, Dynamite Entertainment. Alan Quatermain in this issue.

The War that Time Forgot #1, DC Comics. Warriors from various wars, like Enemy Ace and Fire Hair, battle dinosaurs in a time lost world.

Tor #1, DC Comics. Joe Kubert’s long-lived Prehistoric hero returns.

Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters #3, Dynamite Entertainment. More kung fu gunslinger action with funny animals.


-Swinebread

GIs and Dinosaurs

I'm having a jolly time reading Showcase Presents: The War that Time Forgot. It’s pure male adolescent fun!

Here’s the copy from DC’s website

Over 500 pages of classic adventures are included in this value-priced volume collecting one of the most unusual series ever from DC Comics! On an unnamed, uncharted Pacific island, dinosaurs continued to thrive while World War II raged across the globe. It's there that members of the U.S. Military found themselves armed only with standard-issue weapons against the deadliest predators ever to roam the Earth!

There’s certainly something weird about WWII and Dinosaurs but it works. The War that Time Forgot series began in 1960 in the pages of Star Spangled War Stories #90 and ran into the 1980s finishing it’s run in the pages of Weird War Tales. This black and white newsprint collection reprints the first stories up through 1966.

The real draw of The War that Time Forgot is the hyperkinetic action that takes place between the US service men and the monstrous creatures on and around Dinosaur Island which is cross between Skull Island and the Lost World. The dinosaurs really are more like “mutant” dinosaurs, similar to Godzilla, because they’re so huge. The stories feature groups of military men on secret missions that get wiped out except for a hardy few. The action gets pretty ridiculous at times and the laws of physics are a little bent out of shape, but the dinos and WWII hardware are always a visual treat. This collection also reprints the first appearance of G.I. Robot, a personal favorite of mine, long before a version of him joined the Creature Commandos.


The War that Time Forgot is just groovy fun, and when I say groovy, I mean Ash from Evil Dead kinda groovy. What red-blooded male wouldn’t want to take a gander at these anachronistic battles? A Sherman Tank vs. a Tyrannosaurus, a sub vs. a giant eel, and a dive-bomber vs. a pterodactyl just to name a few. It’s D-Day of the Dinosaurs man! Not to be missed by Weird War aficionados.

-Swinebread