“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
— Stephen King
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Photo of 1999 solar eclipse in France, Luc Viatour
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In brightest birthday, in darkest night …
I got a new hat as an early birthday present — and, whaddaya know, it just so happens that it matches a ring I own. It’s almost as though they were standard issue for some sort of … galactic peace-keeping corps or something.
Next I need to get a bright green coffeemaker as my power battery.
Cover to “House of Mystery” #235, Luis Dominguez, 1975
DC Comics.
Throwback Thursday: the “Raiders of the Lost Ark” comic adaptation (1982)!
When I was in the third grade, Marvel’s 1982 adaptation of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) might have been the most beloved comic book in my collection. And that’s saying a lot — there were a couple of issues of “Sgt. Rock” that I probably would have killed to protect.
“Raiders of the Lost Ark” was a quite decent adaptation of what I still revere as my favorite movie of all time (though it’s probably tied for that distinction with a certain unpopular film that I will not name here). It makes sense that the book was so well crafted — this Internet thingamajig tells me that it was scripted by none other than comics great Walter Simonson.
I’m a little confused by some of what I’m reading online … yes, this was originally published as a three-issue arc. (I had a couple of those.) But it was also released as a complete book (with the cover art that you see below).
Postscript — I learned a couple of years ago that Marvel also released a two-issue adaptation of “Blade Runner” (1982) the same year. The artwork looks pitch perfect. Sooner or later, I need to get my hands on that.
Poster for “Jaws” (1975)
Universal Pictures.
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself …”
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
–Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Cover to “Heavy Metal” #5, Esteban Maroto, 1981
HM Communications.
“The Writer” appears in Down in the Dirt magazine’s newest anthology!
I got a really nice surprise today — Down in the Dirt magazine has included a poem of mine in its latest poetry collection, entitled Outside the Box. The poem is “The Writer,” and it was selected for the anthology following its appearance in Down in the Dirt’s May 2020 issue.
You can order Outside the Box right here over at Amazon.
Thank you, Editor Janet Kuypers, for allowing me to share my voice in this collection!
Cover to “Batman: Year One” Part 2, David Mazzucchelli, 1987
DC Comics.
