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Mark, along with Hassan Godwin, interview EMcon’s Event Coordinator Kelly Gordon, Jenny Feldy interviews Author Demitrios Lopez, and at the Long Island Convention of Horror, Convention Correspondent Stephanie Lombardo interviews…

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If you love Nintendo products, you’re probably excitedly anticipating the release of the Nintendo Switch 2. This new console could offer everything that the Nintendo Switch offers and then some,…

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Michael Desharnais in back with Marshal Strong #2. As you may or may not recall Michael Desharnais’ Commando, joined the G-Men on day one with me and I’m excited to…

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Title: Bandits of Batavia # 1 Publisher: Beyondtopia Comics Created by: Bryan Valenza Story & Colors by: Bryan Valenza Co-Writer: Henry Barajas Art by: Ario Murti Lettered by: Troy Peteri…

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ABLAZE PUBLISHING All The People I Have Been HC (not verified by Diamond Distribution), $24.99 ABRAMS APPLESEED Star Wars A New Hope A Collector’s Classic Board Book HC (not verified…

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Hellfire attacks during Christian Nudist Film Well, it’s me. It’s him. It’s T.I.M. The month of January 2025 has been a whirlwind of highs and unexpected lows, and I mean…

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I've got the Stalwart Phile #3 now posted, and I am very pleased with this model for building the game going forward. Obviously, I based these on the old Marvel FASERIP Marvel Phile from Dragon Magazine, and it's a great format for me to work in. I can take a weekend and cobble one of these together, getting a substantive release out without feeling the burden of a 'complete' release. 

The companion adventures, of which I have done two (one is exclusive to KS backers) is working under similar conditions; these are long enough to represent an individual comic book issue, but short enough that I don't get bogged down in getting halfway through a draft and then giving up. I have a model in place that I can keep building on, and that was important to me to keep the game growing. If all I do is Stalwart Philes and short adventures, there's a solid foundation for the game to grow going forward.

Dick Giordano became editor at Charlton Comics in July 1965 with the idea of creating a line of what he called “Action Heroes.” “I just made that phrase up because…

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XRQ24 The Pandimensional Man #2 XRQ24 The Pandimensional Man #2XRQ24 The Pandimensional Man #2 – Image 2XRQ24 The Pandimensional Man #2 – Image 3 Jarred Allen, along with his sister,…

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MAKING MOVIES IS HARD but getting on their podcast is damn impossible… “MAKING MOVIES IS HARD” is hosted by Liz and Alrik twice a week with occasional input from the…

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An unconventional Writer of Script, Screen, and Tomes Big Time Books is the brainchild of ERIC MILLER who gathers with a loose conglomeration of writers and show biz professionals in sinister…

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The hit “Crystal Heart RPG” and “Savage Worlds” webcomic is collected for the first time in print  MILWAUKIE, Ore., (April 11, 2025)— Dark Horse Books invites fans of adventure, fantasy, and…

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POWERLIFT, a new gamma-powered warrior, joins “God War,” the new arc currently erupting in Cody Ziglar and Marco Renna’s MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN.   New York, NY— April 11, 2025 —…

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Both Marvel and DC understand the importance of those debut issues that we call Number One’s! CAP ENCOUNTERS DOC DOOM! Marvel is kicking of an all-new Captain America comic book…

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This July, experience the horror hit of the summer in UNCANNY X-MEN #17 by Gail Simone and Luciano Vecchio. The issue will introduce a murderous mutant girl terrifying audiences everywhere—but…

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  Archie Comics meets Minor Threats in a new crossover miniseries MILWAUKIE, Ore., (April 11, 2025)—Dark Horse Comics presents Archie vs. Minor Threats, a new crossover comic miniseries featuring Twilight City’s favorite villains…

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  Commander Jane Shepard and Commander John Shepard Figures MILWAUKIE, Ore., (April 11, 2025)— Dark Horse and BioWare are bringing two more galactic heroes to the popular Mass Effect line of…

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The original version of this post appeared in March of 2015...

I've written previously about a world where the dungeoneering was an done by androids who were the remnant of human civilization (all that's here). Well, there's another way to get dungeons crawling with robots, and that's by having a future, post-apocalyptic world that's been overrun by them. Instead of apes, or fairies, or vampires, let the robots take over something like Screamers (and the Philip K. Dick story it's based on "The Second Variety"), Terminator, or Magnus: Robot-Fighter. Unlike those examples though, human civilization can have been pushed back to pseudo-Medieval levels.

Say the robots have moved mostly underground, leaving humans to limp along on a damaged surface world. The underground bases of the robots would be a lot like dungeons. Robots would have made various robotic or bio-robotic guardians--monsters, of sorts. Maybe the robots are even aliens? A post-sentient, techno-organic swarm that landed and buried itself into the earth, spreading underground like roots, building robotic creatures in a myriad of forms as it went. You'd have a whole underground ecology of robots. Add "magic" (really psionic powers in disguise) and you've got a fantasy world, or close enough.

For a real fantasy world, assume that the alien robotic swarm invaded a fairly D&Dish world (except with maybe less conflict to begin with).

I am looking at how Stalwart Phile #2/3 and Stalwart Adventures #2 can work together. I have the idea for a time-travel adventure that isn't a time-travel adventure at all. The idea is that there are two events that are linked by a few decades, and the adventure takes you through the linkage. Here's the idea of how these might fit together so far...

Act 1 - Decades ago, on one of their final missions, Freedom's Four defeat Doctor Voltus in his castle by trapping him in a closed cicruit system within his castle; they know it is a temporary fix.

Cut Scene 1 - In the present, the modern-day heroes (or Doc Stalwart if playing solo) meet with the retired older Liberty Lass and Bronze Beacon 2, who recount one of their final battles; we learn that Captain Reicher is up to something, and that something might be bringing back Doctor Voltus. Liberty Lass dons her gear for one last mission...

Act 2 - Travel to Doctor Voltus' old castle; a battle with Captain Reicher and minions. (Modern hero team with Liberty Lass).

Cut Scene 2 - Set up a device that can 'trap' Doctor Voltus; create mechanical keys in play that must trigger to permanently trap him so he can face trial for war crimes.

Act 3 - Final battle with Doctor Voltus with some triggered events built into the battle.

Cut Scene 3 - Funeral for Bronze Beacon 2? Something to finalize the events. Maybe have an event where the wrist bands he carried are donated to the museum his neice works for... set up the future Bronze Beacon? Historical comment about how this event was later ret-conned to include BB 3 even though that was never 

Hmm. I solved a lot of this as I was blogging. I know that I spoke about this at some point, but writing is really a thinking process as much as it can be a process of revelation; I talked to my students earlier this year about how I don't use writing to put down the things I already have in my head. Sometimes, I sit down with only the vaguest idea, but the PROCESS of writing it down and getting it out in front of my eyeballs allows me to see how the dots connect. That is exactly what happened here. What I ended up writing down is a lot more than was in my head, and much better organized, than when I started. Writing process for the win! 

Last week, in my Wednesday Comics post, I accidentally left off one comic, the issue of Vigilante from April 5, 1984:

Vigilante #8: Wolfman brings his Electrocutioner vigilante over from Batman #331, presumably so he can continue to clarify Vigilante's previously murky stance on where he draws the line regarding killing. We are also treated to a renewed examples of criminals getting off on pesky technicalities like illegal searches as Adrian Chase's friends try to convince him to become a judge.  There's the issue of a mysterious microchip that the Controller is after. There's a nice sequence in the beginning where Vigilante is pursued by a guy in a mini-copter that really showcases the talents of Andru/DeCarlo.

In other news perhaps of interest to longterm readers of this blog...

We finally have a solicitation for the Warlord Omnibus. It supposedly only has a price of $75.00, which seems low given the page count (1040 pages).

In any case, it's supposed to include 1st Issue Special #8, Warlord #1-50, and Amazing World of DC Comics #12. For a volume 2 (if there is one) that leaves the non-backup stories from Warlord #52-71 (#51 is a reprint), Warlord Annual #1, Warlord (1992 limited series) #1-6, and Warlord (2009) #1-16 for a total of around 1005 pages in that one, by my count.