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Happy birthday. Cake and beer.

The Haunter of the Ring Robert E Howards (most famous for Conan) Horror stories.There's no getting past it Howard was a racist by our standards, the baddies invariably Oriental or Latins. The heroes upstanding Yanks with the occasional Afghan/Arab thrown in. I acknowledged it reflected the times they were written and tried to read them as best I could. Some I had read before (the Hyena) but others "Haunter of the Ring" and the "Fire of Asshurbanipal" were new to me. Pulpy and mad with Lovecraft elements Asshurbanipal was definitely the best-most others were middling to okay.Some of them were even scary.  At least it's made me want to read some Clark Ashton-Smith and the lesser known british writer John S Glasby and got me a nerding some of the Conan and pulp/horror blogs.

Transcosmic horror. There's not enough of it.

Glad to see none of those pesky "vegetables" near that delicious looking plate of nom.

A Deep One is hidden in one of the piles of clothes.

The priest is reading from the Necronomicon.

I know little of stromtrooper armour alas, but that Bom Vimdin is ace.

They're funny because they're true. Great stuff HdE.

Prog of the year so far. Brilliant cover and fantastic new Dredd who is biscuit dunking maaahnnn???

Anyway ABC Brass Sun continued the brilliance but Twisted Tales was tops this week sharing honours with Grey Area which finally kicked into full gear.

Lovely lovely prog.

they have to die so our society can live! Um the only prob I hd with CITW is the most important button in human history has no guards and no lock. After that even the horrific purge seemed rather lame.[spoiler]And only a giant hand? What, no chthulhu?[/spoiler]

I might well pick that up this weekend (assuming they have it in my LCS) normally anything by Matt Wagner is a defo for me but everything I read about the made it sound so uninspiring and I'm not the biggest fan of Bisley's work of late, though that said it seems to have been inked really well... who am I kidding I'll end up getting it so glad to hear some positive words about it.

Doubt it will win many awards for originality -it is formulaic but the formula works IMHO.I got Four horseman by teh BIZ and that is good but this is slightly better in that it's coloured and inked well. The hero John Tower looks more like he's stepped out of a D&D game rather than the usual "dark-cape".

The Tower Chronicles scribed by Matt Wagner and illos by Simon Bisley. Basically a  bounty hunter/merc with a mysterious past hunts ghosts and ghoulies in a modern setting. Whilst very influenced by the Bat and Blade I found it a very good read. I was never bored and the story fairly raced along ably helped by Bisley's work. A dark hero obviously but not like the 90's-Tower even has his own lawyer. I have a terrible cold at the moment and reading it helped me forget the snuffles, sneezes and snorts for a little while. Some chuckles like naming a vampire Davros-perhaps they're Dr Who fans secretly.

A little snippet at the end by Matt Wagner on how he came up with the character and links between comics and film.Alas no extra bits for Bisley's art or Jim Lee's cover.

Probably be coming to cinema near you eventually.No bad thing and part two is out in November. I'll be getting that as well. i hope they do some extras like in the twoofy trades.

i can see it Hoagy.

Beautiful forkwork on the dessert there. Buttonman you look like you're contemplating reality whilst deciding whether to eat the delicious waffle. Like human kind searching, yet caught between philosophy and the down to earth nitty gritty of existence.

Or perhaps you'd just had alot of cidre.

Just when I think the zenith of awesomeness has been reached ye all go and top it. Ace stuff Archey, Dark Jimbo and Batdan4ever.