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The Silver Sunday crew talk with special guest J.C. Vaughn! Included in this episode are Roland Mann and Thomas Florimonte. Originally aired on Aug 20, 2023.

Title: Something is Killing the Children # 33 Publisher: BOOM! Studios Written by: James Tynion IV Illustrated by: Werther Dell’Edera Colored by: Miquel Muerto Lettered by: Andworld Design Cover by:…

Product Title: Animal Pound #1 Retail Price: $4.99 Writer: Tom King Artist: Peter Gross Colorist: Tamra Bonvillain Cover Artist: A: Main Cover: Peter Gross B: Variant Cover: Yuko Shimizu C:…

SEVEN YEARS IN DARKNESS #1 (OF 1) (ONE-SHOT) Diamond ID OCT231638 / OCT231639 / OCT231640 Lunar Product Codes 1023CX427 / 1023CX427 / 1023CX428 Written & Illustrated by JOSEPH SCHMALKE Cover C C.P. WILSON III Late at night in…

Art by Rufus Dayglo The Devil’s Railroad Begins in 2000 AD Prog 2352 A major new series starts in 2000 AD Prog 2352, out on the 4th October, as the…

TALES FROM THE CAVE one-shot! (W) David Hazan, Keith Frady, Rachel Pinnelas (A/C) Shane Connery Volk, Luca Romano, Riccardo Cecchi, Marco Pelandra, Marco Tortella, Marcello Iozzoli (L) Justin Birch, Renato…

EXORCISTS NEVER DIE #6 (W) Steve Orlando (A/C) Sebastian Piriz (L) Carlos Mangual (END OF SERIES) Pride goes before the fall! So it makes sense that Pride is the most…

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Horror Maestro R.L. Stine pens a new macabre tale at BOOM! Studios LOS ANGELES, CA (September 21, 2023) – Horror master R.L. Stine and Bram Stoker Award-nominated artist Pius Bak…

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A new, bone-chilling supernatural thriller from film, television, and comics creator Mark Verheiden and writer/actor Aaron Douglas MILWAUKIE, Ore., (September 21 2023)— Dark Horse Comics invites readers to the icy, dark…

The Max Original series DOOM PATROL will continue its fourth and final season with two new episodes THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, followed by one new episode weekly through November 9. Season 4 mid-season logline: In…

SECOND COMING: TRINITY #6 (W) Mark Russell (A) Richard Pace, Leonard Kirk Cover: Richard Pace Heartbreaking final issue of the series that’s “incredibly empathetic, thoughtful, and — in the right…

HALESTORM, GWAR, DEE SNIDER OF TWISTED SISTER, AND ALAN ROBERT of LIFE OF AGONY AMONG THE GUESTS IN ATTENDANCE Z2 Comics will invade New York Comic Con in October with…

For Immediate Release: TRICK OR TREAT! MONSTER FUN’S HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR 2023 DEBUTS NEW LOOK!   Across the summer hundreds of children from across the UK picked up their pencils and…

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This January, writer Steve Orlando returns to the world of Marvel 2099 alongside a lineup of acclaimed artists and terrifying new 2099 characters!    New York, NY— September 21, 2023…

Thinking about the phylogenetic connection between the Lost Worlds of Victorian adventure fiction and the planetary romances of last century led me to an overall classification scheme for all sorts of unusual/fantastic lands or country within large settings (whether that larger setting be an approximation of the real world or a secondary, fantasy world). This was quickly done, so it might bear further though. 

The Strange Country: The Strange Country probably is an outgrowth of The Odyssey and Medieval travelogues. It is a place definitely situated in the wider world and generally not differing in its physical laws but possessed of its least one unusual feature whether than be a geographic anomaly, cultural eccentricity, or weird animal. Most of the various city-states of Barsoom, and the countries of Vance's Tschai or Raymond's Mongo fall into this category. The "Planet of Hats" TV trope is the Strange Country on a planetary scale. The Strange Country differs from the more mundane foreign land by the degree of exaggeration in its unique thing and by the fact that beyond that thing, it isn't usual that foreign in terms of culture, language, etc.

The Lost World: The Lost World is more remote and more divergent from the outside world that the Strange Country. Most often it's an isolated pocket of one or more elements of the world's past, but it could be completely alien. Perhaps its most defining feature is that it is typically a hidden place and is much harder to reach than the strange country. Maple White Land of Doyle's The Lost World is the prototypical example, but Tarzan encounters a lot of these "lost valleys" from Crusader to remnants to lost Atlantean cities. The dividing line between the weirder Strange Countries and Lost Worlds isn't entirely clear, but if the place is widely known to scholars just seldom visited, it's a Strange Country. If no one knew it existed or it was believed to be mythical, it's a Lost World.

Fairyland: The Fairyland is a region defined by its fantasticalness. Physical laws may be very different from the surrounding world. If it has contact with the wider world if is limited and geographical conscribed. Often though, it will be as remote as the Lost World--even more so, perhaps, because it may not strictly be placeable on a map, existing in an extradimensional space. Literal Fairy lands are generally Fairylands, but so is the demonic subworlds of a number of Michael Shea's fantasy novels, Hades in Greek Myth, or Wackyland in Warner Bros. cartoons featuring the Dodo.

 I spend all my Wednesdays talks about old comics that I don't get much of a chance to talk about newer things. Here are a couple of recent comics that I have enjoyed and you might too. They all happen to have "world" in the title.

World's Finest: I've mentioned this one before, but Waid's and Mora's classic (Bronze Age-y) stories and characterization with a modern sensibility continue to be really good. There are now a couple of collected editions in the series.

World's Finest: Teen Titans: Spinning out of World's Finest, Waid and Emanuela Lupacchino bring a similar (though not identical. Being about younger characters makes this book feel a bit more modern) to a sort of new version of the 70s Teen Titans. It's like what might have been if X-men style angst and later 80s Deconstruction hadn't intervened.

Worldtr33: Shifting gears, this is a horror comic by James Tynion IV and Fernando Blanco. In 1999, a group of computer nerds discovered the Undernet―a secret underworld/intelligence in internet. They charted their explorations on a message board called W0RLDTR33. They thought they sealed the Undernet away for good. But now, seemingly random killings posted on social media proclaim the arrival of a new age. The world has access to the Undernet again, and, like Cthulhu rising, it will mean a terrible new age dawning for humanity unless they can stop it again.