Young Justice 12

YOUNG JUSTICE #12
written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
art and cover by JOHN TIMMS
card stock variant cover by NICK BRADSHAW
It’s an epic Wonder Comics crossover: Naomi, the Wonder Twins, and Young Justice all come together for the first time to confront the secrets behind the entire first year of the teen team’s series. Where did Connor Kent come from? Why does Bart Allen remember everyone but no one else does? How does it all connect to Jinny Hex’s trunk? It’s a Wonder Comics blockbuster!
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Trinity issue 18 preview

Previews of DC's Trinity issue 18 found at Flickering Myth.com

Trinity #18

TRINITY #18
Written by JAMES ROBINSON
Art by PATCH ZIRCHER
Cover by GUILLEM MARCH
Variant cover by BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for details. Includes a code for a free digital download of this issue. 

“No Home for you Here” part two! Stranded on the lost world of Skartaris, the Trinity are alone and depowered as they face the bestial armies of Deimos! As the layers are peeled back and the mystery of Deimos’ plan deepens, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman must overcome the crippling effects of Skartaris to survive! But help is on way in the form of Travis Morgan…the one and only Warlord!

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The Warlord

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Warlord from DC Comics!

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Shakira

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Jennifer Morgan

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Warlord Worlds Podcast

There is a podcast devoted to the fandom of the creations of Mike Grell.

Warlord Worlds is a fan podcast devoted to the comic creations of writer and artist Mike Grell including Warlord, Jon Sable, Starslayer, and Green Arrow.

This is one of three podcasts by hosts Darrin and Ruth. They host this podcast- Warlord Worlds podcast, Trekker Talks podcast, and Xenozoic Xenophiles podcast. Each of these are very similar in their style covering their own topics. Highly informative and tremendously detailed covering each issue, etc. quite thoroughly. If you are a fan of any of these things, the podcasts are not to be missed. They are a wonderfully high quality labor of love.

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Trekker Talks

A fan podcast devoted to 23rd century bounty hunter Mercy St. Clair from the Trekker comics by Ron Randall. Not affiliated with Dark Horse Comics or Ron Randall.

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Xenozoic Xenophiles

A fan podcast devoted to the post-apocalyptic comic series Xenozoic Tales by Mark Schultz

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Hollow Earth Expedition - favorite RPG setting

August is the month that various gaming geeks post blog articles that follow the #RPGaDay2015 list (see the image at the bottom). This was my choice. Porting it over to this blog as well.

Hollow Earth Expedition is my favorite RPG setting.

There is a list of reasons:

• Dinosaurs
• Nazis
• Hollow Earth
• Mars
• 1930s
• Pulp
• Secret Societies
• Unique and light-ish system
• High quality production value
• Excellent art
• Excellent fan support
• Friendly fans

This hits all of the tropes that get me going. Ever since I got into the Indiana Jones films, 1930s pulp has been such a favorite! And there has been no lack of it in RPGs. One thing that makes this game unique is that it isn't a pulp setting for a game system trying to cover all the bases. It is a pulp game that fully tackles one major pulp trope. The Hollow Earth theory.

The Hollow Earth theory is a literary setting that caught my interest when I veered away from Tarzan and John Carter in my Burroughs obsession several years ago. I had discovered Pellucidar! I was also getting into old back issues of DC Comics Warlord. As I wrapped my head around the concept and particularly what the effects of time in the Hollow Earth were, I was completely hooked and still am. I've even created a blog that allows this obsession to vent occasionally.

Other things I like about this setting is it is not grim-dark. This is an aspect of many settings that I fear sells well these cynical days. No need for it. Too much of it anywhere else. I also like that it isn't at all inappropriate for kiddos. As a geek dad, I do desire to foster the interest in this hobby to my littles and this remains a pretty safe game to do that with. Also, plenty of elements that may appeal to my parents, who also want to share in the kiddos gaming occasionally.

So that's my choice. Hollow Earth Expedition. It's a good one.

My wife says the only thing missing from this most excellent game is Nathan Fillion.

Skartaris plays a major role in Convergence

Convergence starts to wind down in issue 4 and Warlord plays a major part in it all. This article contains spoilers!

Today's issue of Convergence, DC Comics' mega-event that gives fans a chance to revisit 75 years' worth of alternate timelines and versions of their favorite heroes, kicked the final battle into high gear, gave Earth 2 (if it survives) a new Batman and showed us yet again why the characters of Mike Grell's The Warlord are some of the most awesome and underused in DC's pantheon. 

Writer Jeff King joined us to discuss the issue.

If you aren't caught up on our previous installments yet, covering Convergence #1, 2, 3, and 4, check them out here, here, here and here.
You can also check out an exclusive gallery of spoiler-heavy pages from the issue below our interview. 

Given his connections to Flashpoint, was it really cool to get Andy Kubert to draw this issue? 

Absolutely. That was a stroke of genius from Dan DiDio and Marie Javins, and my good luck that he said yes and agreed to jump in and do #5.

Talk about a dream artist to come on, especially to do the Warlord and to do Skartaris but also to connect to all the characters from the Crisis; It couldn’t have been a better choice. 

As the Skartaris story seems to be winding down, we finally get eyes on more of the Dome-dwellers. Was keeping them off the board during the Warlord stuff done on purpose so that the lesser-known characters like Telos, Warlord, Deimos and the Earth 2 characters could get development?

Partly. It was partly conscious but it was partly dictated by the story. We know that until the end of Week Four, not all of the characters from the monthly stories were out of their domes.

Even though they’re all listening to the same announcement from Telos, just reading through the event you wouldn’t have the sense of completion that all of them had kind of been through their initial period. By the time we were getting to the end of #4, beginning of #5, it felt like the perfect time to let everyone who was out there on the surface become part of the bigger story. So buckle up; as we move along, you're really going to get that sense that everybody who has been connected to all these events you reference are all going to be pulled into the story. 

What it also did was it allowed our Earth 2 team to really bond with each other. It allowed Grayson and Telos to share a lot of history and connection, and of course that’s all going to be important for what comes next in the storytelling. Of course for me to have Andy Kubert draw this amazing moment where Grayson takes up the mantle of Batman by smearing the ashes of a burned-out battlefield onto his chest, that was a pretty magical moment for me. 

The notion of Telos having an identity and a name before all of this evokes Silver Surfer, or even what Geoff Johns is doing with the Anti-Monitor right now in Justice League. Is that on purpose? 

It was part of a larger kind of trope of storytelling and unconsciously I guess I ws tapping into that, but even more powerfully, I felt like what that does is put Telos squarely on our side. 

Not only has Deimos done his heel turn, but it really kind of makes them in a way sort of Cain and Abel as they’re both in some sense a creation of or empowered by Brainiac to become what they are. So in a way , Telos is kind of like a guy who in a certain sense almost sold his soul to the wrong devil for the right reasons.

Is Brainiac's role here done, or will we see more of him -- pissed because of how he was shunted off stage here and in Futures End?

Without spoiling anything, I can say this is not the last time you're going to see Brainiac before the end of Convergence. 

What's the deal with the Blood Moon? We got that reference in Futures End as well.

Well, I would say that you could look at issue #5 where we talk about the Blood Moon, it’s really almost more like a physical thing. The event itself coincides with Brainiac’s arrival and as we’ve seen from Futures End, the Blood Moon was his mode of transportation throughout the universe and so that not only was an event but also how Telos and his people perceived the arrival of Brainiac’s ship in their orbit.

Lots of powerful people, unstable elements popping up here and in the monthly books. How many mad gods can we have, between Deimos and Brainiac -- or even with somebody like Parallax, who was at the height of his power and his crazy when Zero Hour happened?

Would it surprise you if I said sooner or later, they might find themselves in the same place?
Can you imagine all that power in one spot? And you also have Deimos, who really is revealing himself to be not only a god in some ways but a really bad guy. Not only a usurper, but also a traitor in every sense of the word.

It was really awesome to see Morgan go out in a blaze of glory...and then revert to the dust which he was the last time we saw him.

The Warlord has been offstage for a long time in the DC Universe, so it was really fun to bring him back. And Marie Javins really loves dinosaurs, so…

I was talking about this with somebody the other day: Are these actually taken from the original worlds we read in publication, or just the next closest thing in the mutliverse?

I’m not sure I totally understand the question, but they are slivers of those original words. So they are I guess in the sense that until Gotham is repopulated onto the earth from which it came, it is the closest approximation to that previous timeline as we will get.
The series is eventually going to answer those questions.
I guess what comes through it in a way is that the characters are [the originals].

The dark, horrible future that Deimos sees: Is he looking at the Post-Convergence DCU or just what he WANTS to see?

He is looking into the future that he imagines, so this is I guess you can say his version of post-Convergence, which is not what everyone else’s ideal version is.
It’s not what Brainiac’s version would have been and it’s not what Telos’ version as Brainiac’s proxy would have been.

It’s also not what, in #6, Grayson’s version is, for example. In a funny way, Grayson is the one who kind of can most shape that the most until Telos is ready to make his own decision.

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Travis Morgan the Warlord

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by Mike Grell

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Travis Morgan Explains

Image found From the Sorcerer's Skull blog featured in the Warlord Wednesday where each issue is being reviewed. On Wednesdays.

Warlord cosplay from 1986

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This was a group entry:1986 Best in Show San Diego Comic Con & the DC $300.00 cash prize.

Skartaris in JLU

Travis Morgan teams up with Supergirl, Stargirl, S.T.R.I.P.E. to liberate Skartaris from Deimos. I've always been impressed with the quality of JLU. Even more so that they dedicated an episode to the Warlord title.





This episode originally aired in September, 2005 in Justice League Unlimited's 2nd season. It also features Metallo and Silver Banshee. According to Wikipedia, the original title for it was Heart of Stone.

Warlord and Deimos action figures appeared with Supergirl in three pack for the toyline attached with the animated series. See more pictures at CoolToyReview.com. It looks pretty cool, but the lack of sword, shield and .44 is pretty disappointing.

Warlord

On my way home from the license bureau I stopped at Half Priced Books to flip through old comics, an activity I find therapeutic. I found 8 old Warlord comics I didn't have!

After entering them into the database I did a run on my comic collection statistics. Warlord is now the title I have the most issues of at 86 (of 133). Nearly 100% of those are purchases from Halfpriced Books or other cheap bins over the last couple of years. Also and a good deal of tracking which issues I already have has helped.

This month DC Comics re-launched the title! They attempted to launch a reboot of the series a few years ago and that was a complete fail. This new relaunch continues the original comic and is written by the same guy who created the book.

Warlord's setting is heavily inspired and pays heavy homage to Edgar Rice Burrough's Pellucidar series which is set in the Hollow Earth. Warlord has more fantasy and science fiction elements than that of Pellucidar. The original comic ran from 1976 till the mid '80s.

In the savage world of Skartaris, life is a constant struggle for survival. Here, beneath an unblinking orb of eternal sunlight, one simple law prevails: If you let down your guard for an instant you will soon be very dead.

—1st Issue Special #8

One man's trash is another's treasure. It's amazing what you can find in those cheap bins.