The Cruelest Month?
Let us not bury the lede here: There is just over a week left to pre-order Revenge of Monsters from the Vault! You can get it direct from the publisher, avoid putting money in Amazon’s pocket by...
View ArticleWitch Night
Today, I finally made it out to the theatre to catch Avengers: Endgame, which means that I have now seen all 22 of the “Infinity Saga” (or whatever they’re calling it) films in the theatre, and I have...
View ArticleThe Only Hero That Can Save Us
To say that A Lot has been going on in the world lately is to engage in the most ridiculous understatement. We are living in unprecedented times, and things have taken a turn for the very strange and,...
View ArticleMike Mignola Draws Aliens
And I don’t mean the weird, clunky, Kirby-like grays that show up in Hellboy, nor Mike’s take on Martian tripods from his Year of Monsters series of covers. I mean aliens as in the movie Aliens. Or, to...
View ArticleStop/Motion
“If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.” – Ray Harryhausen Seven years ago today, I was home from a very pleasant trip to Portland for an off-season H. P. Lovecraft...
View ArticleThe Way Forward
It would be easy – altogether far too easy – not to post this. The events I’m talking about are a week old and, with the world on fire, a week may as well be a thousand years in internet time. But not...
View Article“…it was a photograph from life.”
I’m a writer, in case you hadn’t already figured that out. But my work has been and continues to be heavily influenced by visual media. Movies, of course, but also comic books, graphic novels, video...
View ArticleA Pin in My Head
Back in 1982, more than a full decade before DC would launch their own, more successful Vertigo line of comics for “mature audiences,” Marvel introduced its Epic Comics imprint. Operating without the...
View Article10/31/22
In some ways, this Halloween marks the end of an era. As I already mentioned, some things are going on that I can’t talk about just yet, but they’re leading to changes that won’t impact you, dear...
View ArticleScary Ghost Stories
It is de rigeur among horror hounds to make a big production out of how much you dislike Christmas. And if you do partake in the season’s festivities – as, after all, most of us do – then you must do...
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