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Greyhawk (Greykawkery): Leading off of course is the mad antics of the CULTISTS. Those who aren’t familiar with them from my first run of comics (2007-2011) can find them in the links above or even in the most recent issues of Oerth Journal. What trouble will this duo cause this time? I will feature the […]

Magazines (Pulp Super-Fan): I recently obtained Pulp Adventures #44 from Bold Venture Press, dated Winter 2024. A delay from the prior issue, but it looks like they are working to get back on schedule. We get science fiction, detective, crime, and horror, along with reviews and non-fiction this time. Conan (Sprague de Camp Fan): Chapters […]

Tolkien (Geek Gab Fest): Orcs, in Tolkien’s works, are an inherently evil race of raiders, murderers, cannibals, and rapists. They are utterly evil, without any redeeming qualities except a low sort of loyalty to their masters. Conan (Sprague de Camp Fan): There are several things I regret in life. Mostly small things. Things like never […]

Fantasy (DMR Books): The Ship of Ishtar was first serialized in Argosy All-Story in November 1924. It was immediately a huge hit with Argosy‘s readership. Not since the days of “The Moon Pool” had there been such a furor amongst the Argosy audience–and part of that previous buzz was due to Merritt writing his novella […]

Comic Strips (Flashback Universe): I’ve been enjoying the latest incarnation of the Flash Gordon comic strip in digital format on the Comics Kingdom website. Cartoonist Dan Schkade relaunched the series on October 22, 2023, and has been doing daily and Sunday installments ever since. Science Fiction (Fandom Pulse): The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction used to be […]

Horror (Too Much Horror Fiction): I first became aware of Ghouls in My Grave after reading Danse Macabre, Stephen King’s essential 1981 tome of boomer memoir and horror criticism, where he includes it in an appendix of important 20th century horror fiction. For many years I searched for the book, to no avail, and virtually […]

Science Fiction (Vintage Pop Fictions): The Ginger Star is a 1974 science fiction novel by Leigh Brackett. It is the first volume in a loose trilogy featuring her hero Eric John Stark. Eric John Stark had actually made his first appearance back in 1949 in Brackett’s novellas Queen of the Martian Catacombs, Enchantress of Venus […]

Robert E. Howard (Horror Babble): “King of the Forgotten People” by Robert E. Howard. Gaming (Endymion): The creator of DOOM has suddenly changed his tune claiming we must now come together & stop fighting, only after one side has started to slip in control, Sam Hyde has a thing or two to say about it […]

Weird Tales (Tellers of Weird Tales): A question came up in that entry, namely: Who was the editor of the first-anniversary number of Weird Tales? Some comments went back and forth. I can’t say that we have a definitive answer. I’m not sure there will ever be a definitive answer. But I would like to […]

Weird Tales (Rough Edges): I’ve been meaning to read Henry Kuttner’s Elak of Atlantis stories for a long time now, and I’m getting to the age where I’m feeling a bit more urgency about getting around to the things I want to do. Star Wars (Nerdrotic): The Acolyte is everything Kathleen Kennedy’s Lucasfilm wants and […]

Fantasy (Rageaholic): The Witcher vs. Elric: Popular Plagiarism Games (Bounding Into Comics): To the surprise of no one without a grain of sense, Japanese players are not happy with Ubisoft’s decision to use Assassin’s Creed‘s first official foray into the island nation as a platform for more ‘diversity activism’. Comic Books (Paperback Warrior): Gold Key […]