Wow....that deer was really frightened by those two vicious hounds. Glad to see Rhonda is feeling better.

Just like one of these cheeky deers to peep over your shoulder when reading a book, such nosey beasts!

One brave deer! Good doggies, protecting you so well.

Aw.. gently tip toeing upto the window, "Are they filming new episodes for Mr Vaughan's channel? Did I miss it? Where are the books? Is Roger here?". Magic.

Thor and Loki in the Old West??? Now I need to find that issue! Can't believe that buck stood there that long with dogs barking at it. Amazing!

Woah. I pressed play, and thought I had been dropped in the middle of a horror film. 🦌😳

Kevin Costner is giving you a present just in time for June on the Range. His new movie looks very old-school western-y. Love the deer! Looks like the dogs do too,

Omg Bambi!!! 😍 That was quite the reading! I loved the Mummy by Anne Rice, not so much the sequel. Werewolves you say? Now that’s new! Good luck sticking to it til 500!

And I loved that opening to Murgun... Meregen... to the Cave story! I have a few anthologies of his but I have never read that one! Thank you!

Cave is in my all-time favorite list of authors. I have nearly all of his published books, many of them autographed. Some pulp mags, but to aquire all of those would be impossible. I’m happy to hear that you’re enjoying his work! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I never miss your updates. They’re great! 😜

The deer was there to hear your weekend reading report Michael. Even when I stopped reading Thor I always bought the Annuals, they were fun stories that, thanks to their greater length, could go into more detail on characters and settings.

Deer wants to know what you read this week too.

I’ve had Murgunstrumm on the tbr for what seems like forever!

wow!. How lucky you are to be able to view deer through your window! That must be an incredible experience.

Oh, deer!

I'm winding down THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. After a slow start, it has really grabbed me about halfway through, though Rice still has trouble with a consistent characterization of her "hero"

That deer was so nearby! So cute :D Your reading was nice btw ... very well.

Hugh B. Cave wrote some great pulp. I have that collection, Murgunstrumm and Others. Good stuff. I also love Cave's horror novels from the 70s, 80s and 90s.

I'm preparing for the next month. I've bought several books by T.V. Olsen, and several by Will Henry. Three by Wayne D. Overholser and I want to try two new writers, so I've bought Stranger With a Star by Donald L. Robertson and Judd's Journey by C. Wayne Winkle. I want to say that buying books is a very pleasant thing.

Clever. Videos with pups always get likes and comments. 🤠

I thought I’d clicked on a nature channel for a sec

Crazy how your channel has exploded the past year Mike

Release the hounds of Hell! I remember reading the first three books of the Vampire Chronicles in the late 90s. I bust a gut laughing a few times when she was trying to be profound. I do wonder what I would think of them now .

Wonderful. Keep on

Hello my friend!!! Hello!!!

James Owlsley is an early pen name of Christopher Priest’s who is in my opinion a good comic writer. He’s best known for his run on Black Panther in the early 2000s.

That excerpt of Hugh B. Cave that you read was very familiar. It sounded like Saturday at my house.

We're you reading Bambi by any chance when the deer showed up? Or perhaps Shakespeare's MERCHANT OF VENISON.

That opening was fantastic. Ha ha! Couldn't tell from the covers, is the Thor fights the Midgard Serpent sequence in the collection you finished? The cover on the last book you showed is the uniform he wears in that fight, so I'm not sure, and I'm pretty sure Simonson drew that, and it's almost all splash pages.

Just went through Cave's Death Stalks the Night. Almost 600 pages of ZANY violence! Torture porn! I really enjoy your videos. I was moved to tears by one of your Robert E. Howard videos. Its really tragic what happened to him and ive read so much of his stuff and i wish there was more and i also wish he hadn't ended the way he did, but if wishes were horses, right? Thanks again!

Glad to see you’re well protected from those pesky deer. I hate deer.

Dude are you serious right now. Dude was like what’s up!! Peek a boo. That has to be one of the best intro’s ever.

That cowboy in Thor 370 sure got defenestrated! Have you heard about Batman's Alfred replacement? UGGH. I'm reading Murgunstrumm - it's ok - but I'm enjoying Lee Brown Coye's illustrations more than the story. Which character/stories do you like better: Karl Edward Wagner's Kane or Robert B. Howard's Solomon Kane?

Is the Balder the Brave miniseries in one of the Thor volumes?

Maybe read one of those shadow books next

On the subject of Cave, I'm a big advocate of reading pulp-era writers. They had this innate storytelling capability that is missing in most modern writers who take too long to get into the story, who build ornate eye glazing setups, and are too concerned with style. I write for two kinds of people: Me, and everybody else. I want my stories to entertain, and a writer should be an entertainer. I was lucky to have known Ray Bradbury. What that man could teach about writing in five minutes is more important than anything prospective writers will study in overpriced, bloated MFA programs. While I don't doubt that there are some good MFA programs, let's face it, they sure ain't helping most attendees. Stephen King to his credit is skeptical about MFA programs and feels they are fundamentally dishonest. There is no way to learn how to become a bestselling writer. King himself has no idea how he got to where he is now. He was just lucky. Is he also a solid writer? No doubt. The man is a great writer because he is a great reader. He has all the right influences from Sturgeon to Bradbury to Lovecraft, Dickens, Twain and everything in between. While I can only surmise as to the events leading to King becoming the industry that he is, I can certainly tell you that his willingness to incorporate the realities, and the consciousness, of a post-sixties, post-Vietnam era and the effects on smalltown America and the social power of rock and roll combined with a punchy, pulp inspired style are big elements in his success. And of course, all the film adaptations. Don't forget, the man is also incredibly prolific. He is always writing. One doorstopper comes out and the next one is almost finished. He doesn't' quit. King is an example of the maxim: Sometimes the public are right. King is widely read for a reason.

Sal was no John Buscema either.

Thor on that cover looks really fat, and with a small head 🤣 The scale seems off. I always felt Bugs Bunny looked sexy when he dressed up as a girl. Why am I saying this? That thumbnail....very sexy. 🤭🤭 Nice deer. That Hugh B Cave passage was.....this space intentionally left blank.

You do realise, of course, that now you're sensibly counting comic books for the 500 book challenge you could now count all the comic books you read before you realised that not counting them was dumb. I do understand, though that your masochistic tendencies won't let you. 😂 When the Simonson run on Thor finally ends completely, the next issue is written by Tom Defalco (if I'm remembering correctly) and it has to mark the biggest drop in writing quality in Marvel's history.