Amethyst Princess of Gemworld #16 (second series)

I completely forgot that after this issue there is a one-shot special issue that concludes the story. So this is the next to last issue. Amy goes back to Earth and horrible, horrible things happen. Plus, Topaz gets a haircut. A horrible, horrible, haircut!

The cover of the issue shows Flaw holding up Mr. [...]

Amethyst Princess of Gemworld #15 (second series)

It is a bit of a slog wrapping up my coverage of the last couple issues of the second series of Amethyst, because such unpleasant things happen to her. The cover of this issue shows new characters Flaw and The Child being mean to Amethyst.

Flaw is holding Amethyst over his head, about [...]

Amethyst Princess of Gemworld #14 (second series)

The cover of this issue shows a battered Amethyst crouched against a wall. Her sword and shield are broken. A man-shaped shadow looms over her, with the text on the cover proclaiming “Guess Who’s Back?” The title of this issue is “Inner Sanctum.”

On earth in a darkened bedroom in Hudson, New York something [...]

Amethyst Special Feature: Interview with Gary Cohn and Dan Mishkin

It is not a secret that I’m a huge Amethyst fan! Amethyst isn’t available in a collected edition but it is well worth visiting the back issue bins at your local comic book store to collect the series, especially the first 12 issue mini-series. Amethyst co-creators Gary Cohn and Dan Mishkin graciously agreed to answer [...]

Amethyst Princess of Gemworld #13 (second series)

This is by far one of my least favorite issues of Amethyst. I fortunately was able to remain ignorant of this issue for many years, because I skipped it when I was originally collecting the series and didn’t read it until many years later when I got a complete run of the series from [...]

Amethyst Princess of Gemworld: Crisis on Infinite Earths

Crisis on Infinite Earths lives on in the mind of my inner 10 year old girl as one of my most traumatic comic book memories, because the mini-series managed to kill Supergirl and blind Amethyst. Since those were the only comic books I was following at the time, Crisis really bummed me out. I’m not [...]

Amethyst Princess of Gemworld #12 (second series)

Sorry for the long delay between Amethyst posts! They are time consuming so when I am busy with my not very glamorous life, I don’t have much time to put them together.

This issue is a bit of a filler story before Amethyst gets caught up in the Crisis on Infinite Earths. It has [...]

Amethyst is a little depressed

Here’s an awesome sketch of Amethyst by Benjamin Birdie, the artist/writer for The Rack:

Amethyst looks a little bummed out. Perhaps she is thinking about that ratfink Prince Topaz.

Amethyst Princess of Gemworld #11 (second series)

In this issue Amethyst deals with the wreckage of her unfortunate love life on the Gemworld and Carnelian gets evil. Very very evil! Also, Sardonyx is tempted by treachery yet again. The title of the issue is “Sacrifice.”

I really like the cover for this issue, as it has a courtly love sort of [...]

Amethyst Princess of Gemworld #10 (second series)

This is one of my favorite issues of Amethyst Princess of Gemworld. The visually striking cover shows Amethyst illuminated in purple against a stark black background, walking towards the reader.

When I read Amethyst as a kid, this is one of the few issues that I bought and I read it over and [...]