Due in July 2020, the 624-page collection Solomon Kane: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus, collecting all the Marvel comics featuring R.E. Howard’s Puritan adventurer.

I’m not keen on the cover. I guess it helps sales, though, since it makes him look vaguely like Conan or a generic pirate. But personally I’d walk straight past it and not recognise Solomon Kane the Puritan.

Also it seems you can no longer trust Marvel’s new reprints, as they’ve started censoring and pasting out things like Wolverine’s cigar. And probably other things now deemed ‘politically incorrect’. It’s a slippery slope. How long before tight shiny spandex, on slightly-too-curvy “boobs ‘n bums”, gets covered up under stick-on shrouds?

Anyway, I just took another look for the 2010 movie of Kane, hoping that by now there might be a longer Director’s Cut. A flop at the time, I seem to remember it was hardly released. I found it good entertainment but very choppy in the first half, as though large chunks had been hastily cut out. But no… it seems the 2010 theatrical release of the movie is all we have in 2020.