Warlord #36
Published and © by DC, August 1980
Title: “Interlude”
Synopsis: When Warlord and Shakira stop in Bandakhar for horses, Morgan soon finds himself entangled with a beautiful girl named Karelle.
Writer: Mike Grell
Penciler: Grell
Inker: Vince Colletta
Review: Another issue, another one-off adventure. And another scantily clad female offering intrigue. And another showdown with Deimos. (Or maybe not. This one might be a hallucination.) Whatever. By now, this reviewer has lost track of Warlord’s A-plot – is our hero still trying to make it back to Tara and Shamballah? – and settled in to watch creator Mike Grell enjoy writing and drawing his way through the entire catalog of fantasy tropes. There’s nothing shockingly original here but the fun is in the way Grell brings the elements together. Consistently entertaining, but rarely classic.
Grade: B
Second opinion: “Thinly characterized people populate the pages of Warlord, and Travis Morgan only shows peripheral signs of love, hate and lastly the remorse of hollow revenge.” – Nige P. Edwards, BEM #29, August 1980
Cool factor: This issue offers some poignant-though-angsty self-reflection.
Collector’s note: According to MyComicShop.com, there is a Mark Jewelers variant of this issue.
Character quotable: “It is I who am the destroyer!” – Warlord, having a self-reflective moment
Editor’s note: This review was written Feb. 16, 2025.
