New! Further Strangeness: Twelve New Knights, Seers, and Myths for Mythic Bastionland is an unofficial and unlicensed supplement for Chris McDowall's wonderful new game, and my entry for the Mythic Bastionland Game Jam. Available for free over on my itch.io webpage.
New! Circe's Grin is a system-agnostic old-school RPG adventure, and my entry for the Appx. N 2025 game jam. Available for free (for now) on my itch.io webpage.
New from Knight Owl Publishing: Isle of Joy is a harrowing old-school adventure on a mysterious island full of secrets and stories. Order a copy on Knight Owl's website.
Something Tookish! is a Brindlewood Bay RPG hack for those who want to solve mundane, cozy mysteries in a halfling village. With art by Justin Howe! Get your copy on itch.io!
Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.
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My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available over at DriveThru RPG.
My short story "Sojourn" appeared in A City of Han.
Available on Amazon.com, or, in Seoul, from the Fiction Writers in Seoul website.
See a complete list of my publications and forthcoming work.
The comics world is a foreign land to me, as is probably evident from the fact I used the word “comics” just now
The proper term is “Comics”
“Graphic Art/ Story-telling” is something geeks who don’t want people to know they’re geeks came up with to hide the fact that they secretly want to draw Spider-Man.
And the comics world is exactly as nit-picky and shrill as the SF world except you replace the Picard vs. Kirk argument with Thor vs.Hulk.
Oh, and the answers are:
1. Kirk. Because he’s awesome personified.
2. Hulk. Because science is always better than religion.
The Hulk scientific? Banner would be dead from radiation poisoning. Try reading some Paul Pope fanboy.
I’d like to read some Paul Pope, but I just don’t like Batman enough to go through his current output…
(Also, “Alterna-comix vs. Super heroes” is the comic dweeb equivalent of “Star Wars vs. Star Trek” for SF dweebs.)
PS: The Answers are-
1. Sturgeon’s Law really applies to both types of comics. So choosing between the two tends to lead you into a losing situation regardless.
2. Star Wars does, and always has, smell of poo.
Congrats!
I hope one can buy it online, maybe even as an ebook, when it becomes available.
See, William (and Henry), I was like, “Pope? The Pope writes comic books?” (Then I giggled at the thought of Alexander Pope writing a comic book — what a nasty bit of work that would be.)
Val,
There was discussion early on about it being available online, either in podcast form or even downloadable. We’ll see, I guess… :) Thanks!