New (DMR Books): With the release of Swords of Steel IV right around the corner, authors from the book (along with myself) have recently made some appearances on podcasts to discuss it.

Art (Mystery File): Death Noted: Artist Robert McGinnis (1926-2025)

Robert E. Howard (Michael K. Vaughn): A New Robert E. Howard Biography!

Art (The Spy Command): Thunderball poster in 1965. The James Bond poster art by Robert McGinnis is from a different time, full of outrageous action and seductive women.

Cinema (Nerdrotic): RED FLAGS! ‘Fantastic Four’ Cast Admits It’s Built for the “Modern Audience”

Pulp (Rough Edges): This is a pulp that I own and read recently. That’s my copy in the scan, with another fantastic cover by Sam Cherry. He was really at his peak during this era. Earlier this year when I reviewed the April 1950 issue of TEXAS RANGERS.

Big Tech (The Silver Key): In case you missed the recent news, “Meta and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg deliberately and explicitly authorized a raid on LibGen—and Anna’s Archive, another massive digital pirate haven—to train its latest AI model.” Millions of books have been ingested into Llama 3 without author compensation, or even notification.

D&D (Conan.com): Everything you think you know about the origins of Dungeons & Dragons is wrong. While countless histories of tabletop gaming have painted J.R.R. Tolkien as the literary godfather of D&D, the truth—according to someone who was actually there—is far more surprising.

Cinema (Nerdrotic): R.I.P. VAL KILMER – Hollywood Legend Passes Away at 65

History (The Past): Spanning AD 800-1550 (the late Saxon period up to and including the reign of Henry VIII), our project aimed to create a new picture of warhorses specifically, but also of medieval horses more generally, including how and where they were bred and trained.

Popular Culture (Wasteland & Sky): Last time we questioned where the men are, so lets take a look at where they’ve gone. The above video continues the recent trend in the last few years of the return of adventure stories outside the mainstream. Where are the men? They’re reclaiming what’s been lost.

Radio (Comics Radio): A ship is transporting a group of convicts from England to Australia. The convicts are somewhat… disrespectful of authority and a few knives smuggled aboard make them a real threat to the crew. The captain can only defuse the situation by trusting a murderer to help him.

Popular Culture (American Thinker): Spoliation means “incorporating art into a setting culturally or chronologically different from that of its creation.” The term derives from Classical Latin word spolium, a singular noun which literally means “the skin or hide stripped from an animal

Mythos (Dark Worlds Quarterly): I’m having such fun with the Monsters of the Hyborian Age, it is only natural I should do the Mythos beasties as well. (Both series feature monsters from different authors, not just one.) Not approaching this in any particular order I have chosen the Byakhee for the first one. It might have been the silhouette from my old Call of Cthulhu rulebook that made me think of this creature.

D&D (Goodman Games): A is for Android, B is for Breath Weapon, C is for Construct: these random tables make every creature special. New cover art by Erol Otus and deluxe oversized 11”x14” hardcover format!

Westerns (Paperback Warrior): The First Fast Draw, give or take a book, was Louis L’Amour’s 20th career full-length. The novel was first published by Bantam in 1959 and then numerous printings since then in both paperback and collector’s hardcover. 

Review (Pulp Fiction Renaissance): James Lafond’s “Checklist for Breaking Minds” is also called his “Emotive Cue Checklist”. It’s a simple step-by-step system to see if somebody is on the edge, at the breaking point of a complete mental meltdown…ready to crack into violence, despondency, or worse.

Fantasy (DMR Books): Theosophy emerged from a confluence of many historical factors during the late 19th century. In the realm of science, the new discoveries of fossils—including those of prehistoric humans—had opened up hitherto unimagined realms of “deep time”, as well as casting severe doubts on traditional views of the Earth’s history and Man’s place in it.

Cinema (Giant Freakin Robot): In the long, storied history of Disney, the company has had massive successes, including the history-making Marvel Cinematic Universe and their entire animated output in the ’90s. More recently they’ve suffered through a string of failures, derided by critics and ignored by moviegoers. But Disney has yet to top 2012’s box office failure when the studio released the big-budget sci-fi adventure movie John Carter.

Fiction (Rough Edges): I’m not sure how I missed this one when it came out last fall. Fred Blosser is an old friend, a fan and scholar of Robert E. Howard, and a fine writer. And that title! Well, that’s just pure pulp goodness and I am always the target audience for that.

Cinema (The ArchCast): As much as i want the return of historical epics and movies based on old heroic mythology… I am far from sure we can ever recapture the magic, passion and genuine interest of movies from the early 2000. Plastic armor with rivets might be the best we get…

Fiction (Paperback Warrior): Athwill William Baker (1925-1991) was an Irish author, editor, and publisher that used the pseudonyms W. Howard Baker, W.A. Ballinger, Peter Saxon, and Sexton Blake to write series titles like The Guardians, Sexton Blake, Danger Man, and Jonathan Quintain. I’ve amassed a collection of his books and I’m slowly working my way through them. I decided to try his action-adventure novel Congo, originally published as a Mayflower Original paperback in 1970.

Fiction (Ken Lizzi): While reading my copy of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans I found between the pages a bank deposit slip of mine from 1986. So I know I must have read this copy before — the binding shows some wear — or at least reached about the midpoint and left a book marker there. But my memory of the contents is limited.

Radio (Comics Radio): Do trains have a life of their own? If so, do they continue to travel the rails after death? Two men, both murderers, will soon find out. 

History (Frontier Partisans): Chief Dan George played the character of a Cherokee Confederate named Lone Watie with trail-worn gravitas and sly humor in the classic 1976 Western The Outlaw Josey Wales. Lone Watie was a fictional character created by the troubled, complex storyteller Forrest Carter — an anti-statist admirer of guerrilla fighters and the Cherokee people. Among other things.

Pulp (Pulp Super Fan): This year we got a new Solar Pons collection from Belanger Books that finally takes him to the United States: The American Adventures of Solar Pons. Edited by David Marcum the collection features a dozen stories by various authors.

History (MSN): In August 2024, the Jasper House Museum in Oranjemund, Namibia, unveiled a new exhibition dedicated to the artifacts recovered from the Bom Jesus, a 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck discovered in the Namib Desert.