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sSensor Sweep: Schuyler Hernstom, Ken Kelly, Gardner Fox, August Derleth
Monday , 25, May 2020 Sensor Sweep 6 CommentsReview (Brain Leakage): In terms of pure entertainment, I can’t recommend Hernstrom’s story enough. And if all you’re craving is a dose of pure, adrenaline-filled awesomeness with alien ruins, axe-wielding barbarians, motorcycles, and talking monkeys, then stop reading this review NOW. Buy Hernstrom’s new collection, The Eye of Sounnu from DMR Books, which is where […]
Sensor Sweep: Legion of Time, Creepy Asimov, Fletcher Pratt, Lost Worlds
Monday , 18, May 2020 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsGaming (Modiphius): Today we’re delighted to announce the release of Conan the Adventurer in PDF a major new sourcebook for the acclaimed Robert E. Howard’s Conan Adventures in an Age Undreamed of RPG. Conan the Adventurer is the definitive guide to the lands south of the Styx River, including serpent-haunted Stygia, Kush, Darfar, Keshan, Punt, […]
Sensor Sweep: Pulp on Pulp, Sabatini, Jirel, Weird Westerns
Monday , 11, May 2020 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsNew Project (Misha Burnett): A reminder that the collection of essays that Cheah Kit Sun and I are putting together is open for submissions. I don’t know that Pulp On Pulp will be its title when it comes time to publish it–I just needed to call it something. I am looking for essays from writers, […]
Sensor Sweep: Derleth, Elemental Evil, Tarzan, Weird Tales
Monday , 4, May 2020 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentCthulhu Mythos (Innsmouth Free Press): August Derleth has been the whipping boy for HPL fans since 1939, when he created Arkham House with Donald Wandrei, a publishing concern specifically created to get the works of H.P. Lovecraft into hardcovers. Like many Mythos fans, I have read the “posthumous collaborations” and find them middling-to-dull. What I […]
Comic Books (Paint Monk): Copyright. Public Domain. Cease & Desist. Not the words one would normally think to associate with a battle featuring Conan of Cimmeria and yet here we are. Now that the smoke has cleared, Ablaze is finally able to deliver translated versions of French Glénat’s Conan comics. Let me see if I […]
Sensor Sweep: Conan Companion, Star Trek, Necromancers, Stanley Mullen
Monday , 20, April 2020 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsNew Release (Amazon): By Crom! At long last the definitive history of Conan the Barbarian paperbacks that fans have clamoured for. 107 pages with detailed chapters devoted to each of the mighty Cimmerian’s publishers. Heavily illustrated with many rare images. Plus complete cover galleries of every US and UK Conan title ever issued. In full […]
Sensor Sweep: Haggard Art, Paperbacks, David Drake, Lankhmar RPG
Monday , 13, April 2020 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsBooks (Wasteland & Sky): The common Joe was abandoned for fandom. Unfortunately for them, pocket paperbacks is the key to reaching the largest possible audience. This was part of the secret to the form’s success. Pocket paperbacks were meant for normal people. Abandoning the masses is never a smart idea. D&D (Jeffro’s Space Gaming Blog): […]
Sensor Sweep: Wanderer’s Necklace, A. Bertram Chandler, Hyperborea RPG
Monday , 6, April 2020 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentAnime (Kairos): Contrary to many anime fans’ hopes, the fanatical, totalitarian Cult that’s usurped pop culture isn’t letting a little thing like an ocean get in the way of their conquest. Funimation, the American dubbing and distribution house that made news last year thanks to a defamation lawsuit brought against them by voice actor Vic […]
Sensor Sweep: Ken Barr, Dying Earth RPG, Wade Miller, Russian Cinema
Monday , 30, March 2020 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsWriting (Wasteland & Sky): Action, movement itself, is essential to a pulp tale. The story must get in, get out, and say everything it can in as few words as possible. Because pulp writers had to hook the audience quickly they had to pack as much as they could into magazine guidelines. Even though they […]
Sensor Sweep: Solar Pons, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jurassic Park, Topps Monster Stickers
Monday , 23, March 2020 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentCinema (Pulp Curry): Simba also depicts the various perspectives on the Kenyan side. In particular, is an amazing scene in which locals are inducted into the Mau Mau guerrilla movement, a ceremony that is replete with boy’s own voodoo type histrionics, but also shows that while some locals were keen to join the rebels, others […]
Sensor Sweep: Firefly, Black Mask, Original Adventures Reincarnated
Monday , 16, March 2020 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsAnime (RMWC Reviews): By 1969, Japan had advanced quite far in terms of animation. Especially when a studio would put real effort behind a project, such as when Toei Animation released Sora Tobu Yuureisen in July of that year. Known in English as The Flying Phantom Ship or The Flying Ghost Ship, the film is […]
Sensor Sweep: Space 1889, Barry Windsor Smith, Tolkien, Prydain
Monday , 9, March 2020 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPopular Culture (DVS Press): If you needed more proof that the obsession with fictional corporate franchises has a religious overtone to it, here is a major filmmaker advertising just that. When my viewers were upset about the corporate destruction of Star Wars, calling the franchise a cultural institution, I thought it a bit hyperbolic – […]