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If you blinked, relatively speaking, you probably missed it. Beginning in February 2006 with an April cover date, DC revived The Warlord. This time around the book lasted 10 issues. (The original had 133 and went through a number of ups and downs during the run.)

Written by Bruce Jones, the new series was a re-conception of the character, taking it away from its Burroughs-influenced, sword & sorcery roots. Personally, I was really looking forward to this, even though it would not be Mike Grell’s Warlord, because I’ve always liked Bruce Jones’ work. His Ka-Zar the Savage (with artist Brent Anderson) was fantastic, and so I hoped he would bring the same richness to this book.

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I recently attended ConVersion here in Calgary and found a fellow selling old SF pulps in great condition.

The oldest, from 1939, is from an era before we had the photo quality we get now from probes and imaging systems. So the depiction of a Jupiter-like planet and the cast shadow across the rings really caught my eye. And the understated, modern typography gridded out makes this composition sing. Just a few months earlier, they had been using the more decorative type design that had been prevalent through the Teens and Twenties.

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