Jim Reddy📚🌻

Book lover, comic book and movie fan, craft beer enthusiast. Haunter of used bookstores. I like to write.

[Jim Reddy📚🌻 @jimreddy]

Check out Waystation issue 2, which includes my second published short story! Available to read free online or as a free PDF download at the link below.

[waystationmag @waystationmag]

Issue 2 is now available as a free pdf. Thanks to our great contributors. 😊🚀📚https://t.co/61z0fj04dV

[Deaf Crocodile @DeafCrocodile]

Art-in-progress sneak peek! here's artist Richard Cox working on the cover painting for our 4K UHD release of FRANKENSTEIN: LEGEND OF TERROR! Video courtesy of our own Craig Rogers, who got to meet folks at this year's HeroesCon in Charlotte!

#deafcrocodile #bluray #4kuhd #richardcox #wip

[Sean W. Malone | That’s just, like, your opinion. @CitizenAmedia]

"A product made for everyone is made for no one."

It's amazing how many times throughout my career that I've had to try to explain this to upper management at various places I've worked or contracted.

There's always this demand that we just "make it viral", or create something that's got mass appeal, but to quote (perhaps apocryphally) James Joyce:

“In the particular is contained the universal.”

The more you tell stories that are clear, specific, and unique, the more they stand out and the more people who like that sort of thing will connect to that story instead of some other one.

The more you try to make stories appeal to "everyone", the less interesting they become, since the job shifts to softening every sharp edge such that no one gets mad.

Desperately trying to avoid making people mad isn't any better a strategy with art than deliberately trying to make people mad.

[Emperor of Mankind @Neoth69]

This picture permanently changed my thoughts on space ships.
RIP.

[Sharky @spaceshark23]

Pour one out for John Blanche today. Dude came up with one of the most iconic modern art aesthetics I've ever seen.

[KennyLauderdale @KennyLauderdal3]

Releasing an anime on Blu-Ray with no art because Japan won't approve the box is so funny. Props to AnimEigo for going that far.

[Kevin Lamb @KevinLamb74]

Famed Japanese illustrator Noriyoshi Ohrai once brought the D&D world of Dragonlance to life with the same epic grandeur as he did for the movie posters of The Beastmaster and The Empire Strikes Back! 🔥
#FantasyArt

[Cliff Hamrick @CHamilton10315]

Tonight's movie is "The Sword and the Sorcerer" (1982).

Some folks consider this the movie to kick off the sword and sorcery films of the 80s, but that's only because it was the first one to come out. But, very few films after it were trying to emulate it. And, it's only a technicality.

"Sword and the Sorcerer" came out in April, "Conan" came out in May, "Beastmaster" came out in August, and "The Dark Crystal" came out in December. They were all a part of what made the movies of '82 so fucking awesome.

I definitely remember seeing this one in the theaters. Of course, at 11 years old I thought the three-bladed sword was the coolest thing ever. Now it just seems to gimmicky. But the rest of the movie is very cool. It borders on the edge of dark fantasy, but I think it has enough elements to keep it in the sword and sorcery camp, including the poster (that I remember) that emulates one of the Frazetta covers of the Conan books that were big at the time.

As usual, I'll post my thoughts after watching it in the comments.

[Jayce @jblacksomething]

One of my favorite things about the Zatoichi movies is how Ifukube would just use the same motifs and pieces from the contemporary Godzillas and scifi flicks, and this bit of Zatoichi Challenged (1967) is SO close to Rodan’s (Varan’s) theme! So lovely!!

[Jayce @jblacksomething]

Kenji Misumi’s Zatoichi Challenged (1967) isn’t quite the vicious thunderclap that precedes it, but it oozes style and mood, and rattles and shakes with easily the best kaiju-toned score Akira Ifukube contributed to the series. This shit is electrifying! This shit is excellent!!

[BattlebornMag @BattlebornMag]

Happy 122nd birthday to Manly Wade Wellman, famous for his Appalachian and Southern twist on fantasy and sword-and-sorcery, including perhaps his most famous creation, the silver-stringed guitarist JOHN THE BALLADEER.
Who among you have a favorite story of John or Wellman?

[Jim Reddy📚🌻 @jimreddy]

@VinegarSyndrome Team Starcrash so I can hang with Caroline Munro and the robot sheriff. Plus, if we get into too much trouble the Emperor can probably help us out. “Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!”

[Hawklorddragon @cimerians]

Solomon Kane by J.H. Williams III
#comicart

[Johnny 🔆🌹 @NewJohnPACity]

“Ride Lonesome” dir. Budd Boetticher, 1959

[BattlebornMag @BattlebornMag]

Let us remember the great Roger Zelazny, born on this day in 1937. Be it for his CHRONICLES OF AMBER or DILVISH THE DAMNED, few authors of sword-and-sorcery or heroic fantasy ever did so with the touch of surrealism and myth Zelazny did.
Do you have a favorite Zeleazny story?

[Johnny 🔆🌹 @NewJohnPACity]

“The Tall T” dir. Budd Boetticher, 1957

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

Jim Jarmusch on the “All-Time Greatest L.A. Crime Film,” John Boorman's POINT BLANK (1967) 🖤

Watch more from Jarmusch's reflection this modernist revenge thriller on our new 4K+Blu-ray edition of the film! https://t.co/jNdRPcp4vD

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Mœbius (aka Jean Giraud) was born today in 1938...

[Kevin Lamb @KevinLamb74]

Conan the Barbarian poster art by the late Tony Stella (1948-2026)
#FantasyArt

[Holger Haase @HolgerHaase]

Super happy to guest on another @ConnectionsCult podcast discussing the 1960s Fantômas trilogy starring Louis de Funès and Jean Marais.

(Just search for "Cult Connections" in your podcast provider of choice.)

[Peter Atencio @Atencio]

Sucks that every obit centers CNN when his crowning legacy was obviously TCM