By WALLY MONK – Paint Monk’s Library Editor

As many of you know, Paint Monk’s Library launched in early 2017 on eBlogger as my personal blog. Receiving only a few hits a week, I’d talk about my collecting habits, dollar bin comic hunting and painting an occasional RPG miniature (badly).

Since that time (really since the launch of our Classic Conan Countdown), the Library has grown to include current comic reviews, editorials, weekly features, interviews and a loyal compadre of associate librarians. The site has grown from a dozen hits a day to nearly 5-7K hits a week with nearly 1,000 new visitors. We’ve moved from eBlogger to a nicer format on WordPress, with our own URL. Paint Monk’s Library isn’t quite a “huge” site yet, but we’re growing each day, and I’m truly blessed.

This year – next week, in fact – Paint Monk’s Library will be embarking on another HUGE project, this one even bigger than our Classic Conan Countdown (in scope, anyway!) Made possible ONLY by the work of the fine folks at the Into the Knight! Podcast, we plan to review the entire comic book chronology of Marvel’s Fist of Khonshu, the Moon Knight.

Every Monday, Paint Monk’s Library will feature a new Moon Knight review, beginning with Marc Spector’s first appearance in Werewolf By Night #32 on January 6. We’ll also feature a link to that week’s installment of the Into the Knight! Podcast at the end of each review.

While there is no intention of abandoning our constant coverage of Conan the Barbarian and other sword-and-sorcery related titles, I’ve been wanting to expand to slightly more obscure superheroes that are my personal favorites, and the guys at Into the Knight! have made this possible. Perhaps this will lead one day into exploring other characters I love personally, like Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger or Hillman’s Airboy and Air Fighters comics. Only time – and our growing readership – can make that determination.

So if you love the Fist of Khonshu as much as this monk does, be sure to check back on Jan 6th as we kick off the Moon Knight Chronology. And in the meantime, check out the Into the Knight! Podcast…you’ve got a lot of great Moon-talk to catch up on in the meantime.

Thanks for all of your support – and see you on Mondays!

As always, I am – Wally (AKA Paint Monk)