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sSensor Sweep: Comics Code, Michael Moorcock, Drow, Heavy Metal
Monday , 24, February 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPulp (Rough Edges): This is a pulp that I own and read recently. That’s my copy in the scan. I don’t know why the front cover is missing that strip at the bottom. That’s the way I got it. Luckily, the loss doesn’t detract too much from the cover by A. Leslie Ross. Not in […]
Sensor Sweep: Romantasy, C. L. Moore, Mythus, Sherlock Holmes
Monday , 17, February 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentFiction (Jon del Arroz): Romantasy is all the new rage from authors like Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J. Maas. How did fantasy fiction get to this point? Popular Culture (Kairos): A raging debate between members of Generation Y and the Millennials revolves around this question: Which decade was superior–the 1980s or the 1990s? As with […]
Sensor Sweep: Planet Comics, Elric, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Monday , 10, February 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentFiction (Three Investigators Books): In the first book of a 26-book story arc, it’s the summer before their freshman year in high school and Jupiter Jones, Bob Andrews, and Pete Crenshaw are back on the case in Rocky Beach, California. Their new client, Isabella Chang, wants to discover the truth about a murdered ancestor whose […]
Sensor Sweep: Otis Adelbert Kline, Clark Ashton Smith, Captain America
Monday , 3, February 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentConan (The Take): When I was a teenager, my dad sat me down to watch one of the greatest fantasy films ever made: Conan the Barbarian, John Milius’ 1982 epic co-written by Oliver Stone, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role. D&D (Walker’s Retreat): The reason that TSR before 2000, and WOTC since, has gotten […]
Sensor Sweep: Howard A. Jones, Farnsworth Wright, William Hope Hodgson
Monday , 20, January 2025 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentNote: Sensor Sweep will be mid-week next week instead of Monday. Authors (Goodman Games): Howard Andrew Jones passed away on Thursday, January 16, 2025. Howard was a wonderful man and a good friend. He had a rare spirit that threw off sparks of joy for anyone who loved books as he did. I love books […]
Sensor Sweep: Weird Tales, Ramsey Campbell, Swords of Steel
Monday , 13, January 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPulp (Rough Edges): Many, many years ago I read one or two novels by Otis Adelbert Kline and remember enjoying them, but I couldn’t tell you exactly which books I read. I do know, however, that TAM, SON OF THE TIGER wasn’t one of them, because I just read it and I’m certain I’d never […]
Sensor Sweep: Greyhawk, D&D, Cirsova, Iron Wolf
Monday , 6, January 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentRobert E. Howard (M Porcius): Let’s read three stories from my copy of The Book of Robert E. Howard that I think are set in the 19th or 20th centuries and that may or may not have some kind of supernatural element. D&D (Fandom Pulse): Dungeons & Dragons has moved into woke territory to the determinant of […]
Fiction (Semicolon): The Secret of Terror Castle is the first installment in The Three Investigators series of mystery detective stories, also known as Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators. The original series was published from 1964 to 1987 and comprised 43 finished books, written by at least five different authors and illustrated by a multiplicity […]
Sensor Sweep: Donald Wandrei, Overrated Science Fiction Writers, D&D
Monday , 23, December 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentWriting (Kairos): Brandon Sanderson is widely respected as a meticulous world builder, an innovative storyteller, and a prolific writer. Over the past two decades he’s made his name as a crafter of ultra-refined magic systems and dynamic characters. Games (Kairos): The AAA video game industry stands at a turning point. Facing runaway development costs, dwindling […]
Sensor Sweep: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Claw, Wulfwald
Monday , 16, December 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentComic Books (Comics Beat): Conan The Barbarian: Battle of the Black Stone is one of the biggest surprises of the year. A bloody, thrilling pulp epic, with a razor-sharp sense of atmosphere and dread, the book has gotten a lot of attention as an explosive example of what Conan stories can do at their best. […]
Sensor Sweep: Oz, Work for Hire, Nintendo, Viking Prince
Monday , 9, December 2024 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentPastiche (Screen Rant): Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane will be featured in upcoming novels from Titan Books, and ScreenRant has a first look at what’s to come. Created by Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane first debuted nearly a century ago, with Kane first appearing in a pulp magazine in 1928 […]
Sensor Sweep: Gladiator 2, Raymond Chandler, Cartoons
Monday , 2, December 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentWeird Tales (Fandom Pulse): It seems as if skinsuits are a popular past-time of OldPub writers who still haven’t fled the old system. Even legacy magazines from the heyday of the pulp era aren’t safe from crusaders injecting their tired politics into them, which a pulp fiction scholar noticed about Jonathan Mayberry’s revival of Weird […]