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sJack Ryan is Just Rotten but Peppermint is Practically Perfect!
Monday , 10, September 2018 Movies 1 CommentOkay, that headline’s not QUITE fair, but I just couldn’t pass up the soulfully seductive sounds of a totally terrific triple alliteration. So sue me. Here’s something a little more fair (but which doesn’t make for as snappy a headline): Jack Ryan—the new Amazon Prime video series about Tom Clancy’s CIA analyst character—isn’t totally rotten, […]
Sensor Sweep: Joe Jusko, Witch World, Battlefleet
Monday , 10, September 2018 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsIllustration (Scoop): Beginning in September, Joe Jusko, in conjunction with ERB, Inc. will be creating brand new cover art and frontispieces for every Edgar Rice Burroughs novel (over 80, in total), forming the first completely unified Burroughs library by one artist. The pantheon of incredible talent who have loaned their vision to cover ERB’s works […]
The weird western has been the red headed step-child of genre fiction. The idea pops up now and then but has never really taken off in popular culture in any big way. More than likely, the first weird westerns I read were by Robert E. Howard in the Zebra paperback, Pigeons From Hell. The first […]
New Release Roundup, 8 September 2018: Science Fiction
Saturday , 8, September 2018 Just Released Leave a commentThis week’s roundup of the newest releases in science fiction features new volumes for many fan-favorite series, including Ciaphas Cain, The Ember War, The Four Horsemem, and Galactic Liberation. Breakout (Fugitive Marines #1) – David Ryker and Douglas Scott When a meteor strike unleashes an alien intelligence bent on taking over the human race, only […]
Thanks to all 844 AH:Q backers! The Alt-Hero:Q campaign has just passed its first stretch goal and we have therefore added a new award! This is a variant paperback collecting all six issues and featuring the stunning, full-color cover art of Alan Quah. You can acquire it here. And speaking of variant covers, we are in […]
Choose Your Enemies and The Rising of the Shield Hero
Thursday , 6, September 2018 Book Review Leave a commentCommissar Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium, returns in Choose Your Enemies, his eleventh adventure for Warhammer 40,000’s Black Library imprint. While on a posting to a remote mining planet, Ciaphas Cain and the 597th Valhallan Regiment unearth a hedonistic Chaos cult. But rooting out the corruption soon takes them to the heavily populated industrial […]
In space, the demons can hear you scream. Space travel has always come with risks. But hyperspace travel comes with one particularly frightening risk, namely, the non-corporeal dark energy-based macrobiotic entities that inhabit the void and are drawn to the presence of human minds. Once penetrated by a macrobe, the infected human mind rapidly devolves […]
Dark Legion Comics is pleased to announce that Will Caligan’s Gun Ghoul: Raising the Dead is now in print. Someone – or something – is taking out the crime lords of Chicago. Agent Justice of the FBI is on the case. She is a Meta Prime, with the ability to see into the past. But not even […]
Arkhaven New Release: ALT-HERO #4
Monday , 3, September 2018 Comics, Just Released, News Leave a commentArkhaven Comics is pleased to announce the publication of the digital edition of Alt★Hero #4: The War in Paris. This marks the fifth of the 24 issues promised in the original Alt★Hero campaign, and we will release the sixth, Chuck Dixon’s Avalon #2, next week. The first paperback and hardcover omnibuses are expected to be sent to backers […]
Sensor Sweep: Twilight Echoes, Fredric Brown, Shrunken Heads!
Monday , 3, September 2018 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentMagazines (Razored Zen): Twilight Echoes #1 So, let me drop this casually on you. I’m in a magazine with Robert E. Howard. You might respond with, “Robert E. Howard died quite a long time ago.” Yes. Yes, he did. But his stories live on. And one of his living stories has just been reprinted in […]
The release this past week of Amazon’s Original series, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan represent a rarity among Hollywood media. The titular character – Jack Ryan, that is, not Tom Clancy – starts as Jack Ryan typically does as an analyst whose deductive powers put him in the center of a globe-hopping adventure and force him to […]
I first heard of “men’s adventure magazines” or “men’s sweat magazine” in an article by Will Murray for Cryptic Publications’ Shudder Stories No. 1 back in the mid-1980s. Cryptic later did an one off imitation, Man’s Guts in 1989 (with a story by my friend Charles Hoffman). I was familiar with the spicy pulps, the weird […]