Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.
Hey, Mom! The Explanation.
Here's the permanent dedicated link to my first Hey, Mom! post and the explanation of the feature it contains.
King, an outspoken Democrat who often criticizes Trump on
social media, pondered the network's coverage of a second consecutive Trump
election loss on Thursday in a post viewed more than 300,000 times on X,
formerly Twitter.
"It will be interesting to see how Fox News handles
Trump's bulls*** if he loses," King wrote.
Newsweek reached out for comment to Fox News via
email on Thursday.
While King did not specify what he meant by "Trump's
bulls***", he could have been referring to the fact that the former
president has frequently and falsely claimed that massive fraud was to blame
for his loss to President Joe Biden. Trump has
also hinted that he might contest a loss this year.
Fox News may be reluctant to entertain further baseless
claims of a "stolen" election in the event that Trump loses to
Harris, having last year settled a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting
Systems for $787.5 million after false claims about Biden's win were repeated
on the network in 2020.
Some of those who responded to King's post on Thursday
assumed that the author, who penned classic horror novels like The
Shining and It, was referring to potential future election
fraud claims from the ex-president.
"**When he loses. They'll be careful," wrote
@YourAnonNews, an account associated with the hacker group Anonymous. "The
last time they promoted unfalsified [sic] conspiracy theories they lost $1
billion dollars."
"Maybe they'll end up owing another $787M,"
@BlueATLGeorgia wrote.
Last week, King called out bizarre election remarks from Fox News
opinion host Jesse Watters, who claimed during a discussion on The
Five that men willing to vote for women who are political candidates
have "mommy issues" and transition into women.
"To be a man and vote for a woman, just because she's a
woman, is either childish, that person has mommy issues or they're just trying
to be accepted by other women," Watters said. "I heard the scientists
say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions
into a woman."
"This is weird," King wrote in response to a video
clip of the moment shared on X.
Also last week, King urged Republican voters to
"hold your nose" and vote for Harris, warning that
Trump is "dangerous" and comparing the former president to "a
child doing a tantrum."
"Republicans: If you have to hold your nose to vote for
Harris, please do so," wrote King. "Trump is dangerous; a child doing
a tantrum. There's only one adult in this contest. It's Harris."
Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung previously said that "Stephen King is a dumbass" in a statement to Newsweek.
RFL Jr. was late for dinner after falcon hunting, so he left a dead bear cub in Central Park. This is a perfect example of what Monty Python’s Flying Circus called “an upper-class twit.”
Republicans: If you have to hold your nose to vote for Harris, please do so. Trump is dangerous; a child doing a tantrum. There’s only one adult in this contest. It’s Harris.
The immigration bill which Trump—a private citizen and now a convicted felon—vetoed from luxurious Mar-a_-lago, was BI-PARTISAN. Elon Musk might have forgotten that part.
Joe Biden has been a fine president, but it’s time for him—in the interests of the America he so clearly loves—to announce he will not run for re-election.
Trump's cronies are planning what amounts to a fascist state, and the Supreme Court is clearing the way for them. This should concern conservatives as well as liberals. https://t.co/jjJh83VYZq
Manafort/Jailed, Navarro/Jailed, Weissleberg/Jailed, Cohen/Jailed, Bannon/Jailed, Giuliani/Disbarred. All at the behest of a Convicted Felon. A Convicted Felon who is the leading candidate to become President of the United States. What the actual Fuck!
Thanks to the Supreme Court, the next president will have the powers of a king. That’s not what the founders intended. Quite the opposite. Overturning Roe took power from women. Today’s decision takes power from all of us.
Hard to believe Motormouth Trump had prior knowledge of the Ukraine invasion. He would have blabbed it. Trump blabs EVERYTHING. https://t.co/D4TvJD2m8f
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2408.07 - 10:10
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
I have written about Traverse City before, though I have not made a Traverse City category. There's a "Places" category but none of the Traverse City posts were in it when I started this entry. It's an oversight I fixed. I thought I had written about Traverse City more, but I only have two entries, seen below.
I have at least three more Traverse City shirts, so I m not going to deliver more content on the most glorious city on the planet in this entry. Stay Tuned.
I will share one thing. For me, Traverse City evokes many wonderful memories. Much of the best times of me childhood were spent there both living for three years and visiting for summer vacations. I resumed the vacation ritual in my adult years and made Traverse City a place I retreated each summer for up to two weeks to write. Now, these memories are inextricably linked. Traverse City is a place of childhood nostalgia and happy memories of family and love. But it is also a place of retreat, renewal, and writing. I spent weeks and weeks there over a 15 year period, mostly alone, reflecting, exploring self, and working on various novel projects.
Right now, as I have mentioned before, I am reading both Stephen King's On Writing (the delightful audio version that he narrates) and Robert McKee's Story (which I wish was on audio...okay, I just checked, and it's an abridged edition, so I wish it was available as an unabridged audio), and I have been thinking a great deal about a novel I was writing in large part during my Traverse City retreats from about 2001 through 2009. I had abandoned the project because it had grown too complex and was turning into a different book than the one I had wanted to write. I am going to return to it and simplify it. King's thoughts on story especially are driving my determination to tackle this project again. I just have to find the time, now, to dump what's in my head into a file, re-read what I had done before, and start banging out a new draft of this book, which just happens to be set in the region up north, near Traverse City. Also, and this is probably more interesting to me than to you, I decided to set the book in 1985, which has helped me to do away with complications caused by modern technology. This and a couple of other projects are the work (both writing work and blog work) that I am planning to shift to when my blog year sends on March 22nd (less than two months from now).
I have many bits and insights on writing to share from what I am reading and thinking, but in the interest of keeping this short (and since it's late), I will save those for now and present them another time.
WHY T-SHIRTS EXPLANATORY BLURB I am doing a series of snippets that will add up to a larger whole answering the "Why T-shirts?" or "What's with all the T-shirts?" question. I have also decided to include the previous items in an ever growing list, hence the "previous items" section next.
PREVIOUS ITEMS
#1: T-SHIRTS ARE COOL
#2: I BE BRANDED - CHOOSING TO ADVERTISE
#3: It's my tattoo
#4 PRIDE AND STATUS - "It's my thing."
#5 - "LET ME GEEK FLAG FLY!!"
#6 - UNIFORM SHIRTS ARE COOL
TODAY'S ITEM - WHY T-SHIRTS #7. PROOF THAT I DID IT - SHIRTS FOR EVENTS
Today's featured shirt on Traverse City makes the point as well as a shirt featuring a concert or a play. I have featured all of these types of shirts in abundance: shirts featuring places; concerts T-shirts; other types of shows, like theatrical plays; and even shirts from businesses or special events all qualify under this motivation for why I am so inclined to wear T-shirts. Colleges factor here also. I have several shirts from my undergraduate alma mater, and I have not even featured them all yet, I also have several shirts from my graduate alma mater, and I have featured none of those.
Obviously, this reason connects strongly with the pride idea. If I feel pride and feel I have achieved a certain dubious status with a shirt featuring the logo of a superhero team, then surely a shirt with the name of my college, a place I labored for years to earn a degree, carries with it great pride and powerful status. It's funny. I was very out spoken in my criticisms of Kalamazoo College while a student there, but after I graduated, the love and affection I have for the place drove all those criticisms away. I wear the shirts now with unabashed pride.
Also, I have been accused of being a hipster. I don't think I qualify. But one of my failings is pride for the many concerts I have seen and how I am likely to tell stories in a tale swap of "one-upsmanship" that drives my wife crazy. But again, like with the schools, I am proud of the concerts I have seen and feel that there's some status conveyed here. Sadly, I purged many of my most vintage concert shirts in the packing up and clearing out of my parents home just before I decided to start work on this blog. What was I thinking? Clearly, I had dismissed the idea of doing a blog like this, and I was quite convinced that there was no way I could maintain a daily pace, especially with my tendency to be long-winded. How wrong I was.
And so, I add another post to The Blog Journey category, which is about writing, which is the topic I started with before today's Why T-shirts blurb. I needed proof. I needed confirmation that I had the chops to write EVERY DAY, even on Christmas and my birthday and the Fourth of July. Though there have been some skip days, though I have fallen behind quite often (this entry being a case in point as I originally published it last night, Wednesday, and I am finishing it this morning, Thursday), and though I still have one unfinished entry that's going on day eleven of not being done (I am working on it, if you keep checking it -- T-shirt #304 -- you can watch it grow, I am doing it. One day at a time. One word at a time. I am building a huge body of work that lays bare my own journey of self discovery as a geek, as a reader, as a writer, as a husband, as a father, as a man.
And I am not done yet. Stay tuned.
HIATUS TEXT: I am taking a short hiatus. A "hiatus" for the 365 T-shirts Blog does not mean that there will not be shirts or that I will skip posting on any forthcoming day. There will be shirts. But the shirts will not be exciting or the featured shirts will not require me to write a small novel to properly generate the content I feel is sufficient. I created a category for my hiatus so as to group together those "easy" shirts that I consider to be "hiatus shirts." The goal of the hiatus is to fill in many blog days with easy shirts in order to complete longer love letters to beloved popular culture icons on more special shirts and to write more complex entries AHEAD OF TIME. The daily grind is becoming too much and causing me to fall behind and to be forced to post incomplete entries. I am hoping that a series of hiatus shirts will allow me to catch up, get ahead, and stay ahead. Ideally, I would like to be writing the bulk of each entry three days ahead while always working on at least one other. I have a lot of great shirts to share before the end of my blog year (after all I was just given SIXTEEN shirts for my birthday). Stay tuned. I promise to post the more interesting and longer T-shirt entries as I finish them. Thanks for reading. BTW, this is the standard HIATUS TEXT that I will include in every "hiatus shirt" entry.
COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 51 shirts remaining
- chris tower - first published - 1401.29 - 19:11 final publication - 1401.30 - 8:05
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2301.29 - 10:10
- Days ago = 2767 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2385 - WHAT I AM READING - STEPHEN KING - X-Men - BOOK OF ACCIDENTS - PART 9
Welcome to another installment of WHAT I AM READING and COMIC BOOK SUNDAY (so there has to be some comic book content).
I have collected a variety of content here on what I am reading, careful to avoid spoilers for the books I have not yet finished.
My main book to reading traditionally is The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig. Some clips of reviews follow with some of Chuck's own blog commentary. I read Wendig's Wanderers last summer and liked it a lot.
As my current audio book, I am listening to Stephen King's newest novel Billy Summers. I like Stephen King in the summer, and I have already re-read Lisey's Story and more less read (sort of a re-read but I never finished it) Danse Macabre.
Here's most of the books I have read so far this year:
I am really enjoying The Book of Accidents. It unfolds its mystery in a very intriguing way.
Billy Summers is okay. I am not blown away But it's good. I enjoy Stephen King a lot.
To make this post comic book relevant, I share material about the X-Men's HELLFIRE GALA, which I collected back in June and had not devoted myself to reading. It's my second X-crossover this year, the first being X of Swords, which was pretty good.
SPOILERS OF X-MEN STUFF STOP IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW
I was not blown away by the HELLFIRE GALA. I rather liked Planet Sized X-Men and the big reveal in that book as the mutants terra-form MARS. Very cool.
The second big reveal is the murder of the Scarlet Witch. This one was weak. She was introduced as an after thought, unwilling to show up at the Gala because of her role in HOUSE OF M when she used her powers to change the world: "no more mutants."
Really good scene with Magneto -- her father -- and then when we next see her, people find her corpse.
Will she be eligible for resurrection? She is a mutant after all.
Of all these books, I rather like Marauders, though the new X-Men book is good, though I am bit underwhelmed by the team, but I am reserving judgement. Mutant teams revolve more often than the Avengers, so I am waiting to see what they do. I trust Gerry Duggan, who is doing very well following on Hickman's landmark re-definition of the Merry Mutants of Marvel who have never been all that merry, especially lately.
At least, the original teenaged X-Men have been returned to the past. That was neat story line for a minute, but Marvel dragged it out WAY TOO LONG.
It's a problem. Marvel either drags out a story too long or does not invest enough resources and time in telling the story right. Rarely, do they nail something. I felt like the recent Hickman led X-book surge has been pretty good and now it's mutating again with new voices and fresh perspectives.
Still, none of this stuff is my favorite Marvel work lately (Immortal Hulk tops that list), but these are entertaining reads by and large.
A family returns to their hometown–and to the dark past that haunts them still–in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers
Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father–and has never told his family what happened there.
Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have–and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures.
Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania.
Now, Nate and Maddie Graves are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver.
And now what happened long ago is happening again . . . and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic.
This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the family–and perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this battle: their love for one another.
Out July 20th from Del Rey Books
“The dread, the scope, the pacing, the turns—I haven’t felt all this so intensely since The Shining.”—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians
“Only Chuck Wendig can blend horror, fantasy, and science fiction into a propulsive thriller that is as funny as it is frightening, clever as it is uncanny, tender as it is terrifying. A magical ride.”—Alma Katsu, author of Red Widow and The Deep
“Chuck Wendig’s The Book of Accidents transported me to the golden age of sprawling horror novels that I loved so much as a kid. Sweeping yet intimate, multilayered and bighearted, this is a novel to sink deeply into.”—Dan Chaon, New York Times bestselling author of Ill Will
“In the tradition of Stephen King’s Dark Tower books, Wendig views the cosmic and terrifying through the lens of the domestic, anchoring his visions of the sublime in the grit of the familiar. The result is a novel to ramble around in, to get lost in.”—John Langan, author of Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies
“An unforgettable, terrifying dose of top-flight horror that hits on our most basic core fears, The Book of Accidents chills you to the bone while still warming your heart.”—Alex Segura, author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall and Miami Midnight
“With a story both universally horrifying and viscerally intimate, Wendig brilliantly uses The Book of Accidents to explore a painful truth: In the end, we all haunt ourselves. I couldn’t get through the pages fast enough.”—Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
“Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror. The Bookof Accidents is a masterwork, and Chuck is only just getting started.”—Adam Christopher, author of Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town
It’s been two weeks since haunted houses, coal mines, missing serial killers, and other nightmares have been on the menu with the release of The Book of Accidents, so I figured I’d talk a little about the book and where it’s at now.
This was not a book whose success I felt was sure — it’s a complicated, big-hearted horror book with a lot going on under the hood. And though my editor (the very wise Tricia Narwani) assured me it worked, I just had no way of really knowing. Balancing all those pieces together was tough. As I’ve noted in many of the talks and conversations I’ve given over the last few weeks, this was a book truly made in the edit (as many are). The first draft had all the bones and most of the meat, but subsequent drafts were an act of rewiring capillaries, neurons, sinew. A great editor sees what the author is attempting to do and helps cut the path in that direction — helping to bring the writer’s vision out so it becomes the very best version of that vision, and I certainly hoped that’s what happened here, but I really had no way of knowing.
Plus, I did the edits largely during the pandemic. The book was originally slated to come out in October 2020, and we ducked that date because of the election, not because of the pandemic (which at the time we still didn’t know about, but certainly would soon enough aahahahahaha aaahhh sob). So, that gave time to take it slow and steady with edits, and though I had a hella hard time writing new material during the first half of COVID-19, editing seemed to be the thing my brain could do. Something about getting lost in that tangle of threads. Something about the methodical task of picking out the BBs from the meat of a shot bird. I could focus on pacing, on cutting bits of tissue and then suturing, on making sure all the narrative connections were there, and made sense. It was hard, weird work, but I really enjoyed it.
Was it a book that would and could work? Was it a book that made sense to the time in which it was written, but also a book that works beyond that time? Is horror really a “market” again, and did people have an appetite for that type of horror novel that prevailed in the 80s and 90s, but decidedly colored with what’s going on now? I mean, again, there’s no way to tell. Writing a novel feels like painting in a wind tunnel — you have to hope that the mess that ensues is a happy, beautiful mess that says something to those who see it, and not… well, just a splatter of worthless color.
And this book is horror, which is both very much not new for me, since most of my books are in some way horror novels… but also, it is kinda new. This is my first official original horror novel. It’s a horror novel from snout to tail, from teeth to taint, and that’s a jump. I’ve already been fortunate enough not to establish a “””brand””” in one genre over another, which lets me stick and move a little more easily from story to story without worrying that my “””audience””” won’t follow me from, say, nine books of intense Cat Mysteries to a tenth book of Grimdark Portal Fantasy. (Remember, a brand is the thing a farmer burns into the ass of a cow to make sure everyone knows where it belongs.) I’m lucky enough to not have secured an early epic success in one direction, so I’m allowed the freedom a little more easy go in any direction I’d like.
Even so, I still worried — would this book work, would it connect, would people read it?
And so far, the answer seems to be… maybe, cautiously, yes?
So, while we did not hit the vaunted-and-often-indecipherable New York Times Bestseller List, the book did land on a few lists, if such a thing matters to you:
So, that’s very gratifying to see! Thanks to readers, of course, and to booksellers, too, who supported the book and continue to share it with their book-hunting clients. Booksellers are magic, do not forget. Bibliomancers of the best and highest order. Librarians, too, share this magic, and thank you to all the libraries who have added this to their shelves.
WCNC in Charlotte hosted Park Road Books, and they recommended the book (but pro-tip, everybody there — I went to school in Charlotte, to Queens, and so you should totally mention that because yay Charlotte?).
ANYWAY. That’s it, I think. At this point it’s mostly… out of my hands. I mean I’ll keep holding up the book and pointing to it, but me doing that is far less effective than you doing that. The book is all yours now. You adopted it. I hope you love it and it loves you and it doesn’t poop on the rug. Or something. I hope you’ll keep talking about it. I hope you can review it somewhere. I hope you buy a thousand copies and give them out at airports like the members of a religious cult.
I’ll see you soon with Dust & Grim. And I guess at some point I should write up the connections between those two books…
Point is, thank you. Thanks to Del Rey, to my agent, Stacia. To my in-conversation partners: Cassandra Khaw, Kiersten White, Delilah S. Dawson, Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Aaron Mahnke. And thanks to the bookstores that hosted: Boswell Books, The Strand, University Bookstore, Powells, Doylestown Bookshop, Midtown Scholar, Let’s Play Books, Fountain Bookstore.
The debut of a new X-Men team, the reveal of mutantkind’s masterplan, and more await at the Hellfire Gala!
“Humans of planet Earth. While you slept, the world changed.” The now iconic opening line from HOUSE OF X #1, the start of writer Jonathan Hickman’s radical transformation of the X-Men franchise, foretold the incredible plans that mutantkind was about to unleash on the Marvel Universe. This June, the X-Men set out to change the world yet again at mutantkind’s inaugural HELLFIRE GALA.
Yesterday, the first of many exciting new character designs X-Men artists have contributed specifically for the HELLFIRE GALA were revealed by Entertainment Weekly, and the world saw the meaning of “Mutant Fashion” as envisioned by superstar artist Russell Dauterman. Today, readers can check out the covers of all 12 HELLFIRE GALA issues, getting their first glimpse at the secrets, the battles, and of course, the fashion that await at this unforgettable evening.
These highly-anticipated stories will be told across 12 issues, offering different perspectives and viewpoints of a single night that will go down in Marvel Comics history. Throughout the event, fans can expect critical moments to occur that will shape the X-Men’s future as we know it—including the unveiling of the first Krakoan X-Men team, the final member of which was decided by a mega-popular Marvel.com vote.
The HELLFIRE GALA is the result of an epic creative collaboration of all the current X-Men writers and artists. Here’s what Gerry Duggan, writer of MARAUDERS and the upcoming seminal HELLFIRE GALA one-shot, PLANET-SIZE X-MEN, had to say about working on this one-of-a-kind event:
“As the builders of Krakoa began discussing the gala within the pages of MARAUDERS and beyond, the writers and editors began noodling on what the evening could be. At our X-Retreat just over a year ago in Chicago we had some very large story ideas and production plans that were ratified to give our artists the time they needed to collaborate on the designs. Russell has been an important part of the MARAUDERS team from the beginning, and it only made sense to ask that he lead the way. The writers jammed on very simple prompts for a few of the looks, but by and large each character was a blank slate for Russell and our other artists. Our regular series artists were also asked to contribute around a half dozen high fashions, so if you don't see your favorite character on a cover, you'll likely see them at the party.
“We haven't sent any of these books to press yet, but I know we've already left a giant mark on the line with this party. The White Queen and House Carnation set out to create a special evening like no other, and it's going to make any other galas you might hear about look like a county fair. Not that it's a contest, but...Krakoa wins. The whole world's watching us now, so we must be nothing less than fabulous.”
Look through covers and solicit text for all 12 tie-ins below, and stay tuned for even more exciting news about the HELLFIRE GALA, including additional designs, variants covers, and more!
On Sale 6/2
HELLIONS #12 Written by ZEB WELLS Art and Cover by STEPHEN SEGOVIA WHO INVITED THE HELLIONS TO THE HELLFIRE GALA? Who thought it was a good idea to invite the antisocial HELLIONS to the fanciest bash of the year? Oh, no one? They weren’t invited but they showed up anyway? Yeah, that sounds about right.
MARAUDERS #21 Written by GERRY DUGGAN & CHRIS CLAREMONT Art by MATTEO LOLLI & JOHN BOLTON WELCOME TO THE HELLFIRE GALA! The Hellfire Trading Company has put together the biggest event of the season – the very first HELLFIRE GALA! Everyone will be there – all your favorite mutants, their closest allies…even their worst enemies – for a night of dinner, drinks, diplomacy and deceit. Fireworks to follow. Plus: From the archives, a classic X-Men tale with our very first look at a Hellfire Gala by Chris Claremont and John Bolton!
X-FORCE #20 Written by BENJAMIN PERCY Art and Cover by JOSHUA CASSARA INVITE-ONLY TO THE HELLFIRE GALA! It’s party time, but somebody’s got to work it. And when invited guests (and a few crashers) prove to be planted antagonistic agents, X-FORCE will need to get their hands dirty and keep this all under wraps…before anyone catches wind!
On Sale 6/9
EXCALIBUR #21 Written by TINI HOWARD Art by MARCUS TO Cover by MAHMUD ASRAR RICTOR HATES PARTIES. Even the nice ones. And with Captain Britain’s return to a changed world, this one is looking to be not so nice. Excalibur’s Earth-shattering HELLFIRE GALA issue will change Krakoan diplomacy forever.
X-MEN #21 Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN Art by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN, NICK DRAGOTTA, SARA PICHELLI & LUCAS WERNECK Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU THE HEROES OF KRAKOA DEBUT! It’s a changing if the guard as the first X-Men team of Krakoa debuts! One era ends as a new one begins, and the handoff happens here.
On Sale 6/16
NEW MUTANTS #19 Written by VITA AYALA Art by ALEX LINS Cover by MARTIN SIMMONDS AND I’LL CRY IF I WANT TO… The HELLFIRE GALA is here, and the NEW MUTANTS have the chance to take a break from training the youth of Krakoa – an opportunity to get dressed up and get down. But not everyone is on their best behavior…and someone has vanished without a trace.
PLANET-SIZE X-MEN #1 Written by GERRY DUGGAN Art and Cover by PEPE LARRAZ Variant Cover by PEPE LARRAZ THEY CAME TO SLAY! The HELLFIRE GALA rages on, but bigger things are afoot a world away. Make no mistake – this is an X-Men book drawn by superstar artist Pepe Larraz. It is absolutely the most important issue of the month.
X-CORP #2 Written by TINI HOWARD Art by ALBERTO FOCHE Cover by DAVID AJA A SHARK IN THE WATER! After X-CORP’s shocking debut, they’ve got fences to mend, hands to shake and most importantly – a board to staff. With Dr. Jamie Madrox’s top-class dupes staffing the HELLFIRE GALA, CXOs Monet and Angel must stalk the dance floor and hope they don’t get preyed on themselves.
On Sale 6/23
S.W.O.R.D. #6 Written by AL EWING Art and Cover by VALERIO SCHITI THIS IS WHAT COMES NEXT. On Earth, the HELLFIRE GALA is in full swing. But on S.W.O.R.D. Station One, a very different guest list comes together…as Abigail Brand finally unveils her plans for Mysterium – and the future of human and mutantkind.
WAY OF X #3 Written by SI SPURRIER Art by BOB QUINN Cover by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI MAKE MORE MUTANTS. It’s the Hellfire Gala hangover. Nightcrawler tries to root out the evil working to destroy Krakoa by investigating all its laws, starting with… **SEXY SAXOPHONE SOLO**
WOLVERINE #13 Written by BENJAMIN PERCY Art by SCOT EATON Cover by ADAM KUBERT HELLFIRE COMPROMISED! Can WOLVERINE and X-FORCE keep the peace or is the gala doomed?
On Sale 6/30
X-FACTOR #10 Written by LEAH WILLIAMS Art by DAVID BALDEÓN Cover by IVAN SHAVRIN THE LAST DANCE! At the Hellfire Gala, SECRETS WILL BE REVEALED! VENGEANCE WILL BE HAD. And someone’s number is up. You’ll never guess whose.
Stephen King Reveals His Top Five Stephen King Stories
Aug 10, 2021
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
8.6M subscribers
Which of Stephen King's stories are his personal favorites? The legendary author, whose latest book "Billy Summers" is out now, drops by the Ed Sullivan Theater and reveals his picks to Stephen Colbert. #Colbert #StephenKing #BillySummers
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What Ya' Readin'? with Stephen King
Aug 13, 2021
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
What book is so scary that it even scares master horror storyteller Stephen King? What book does he want people to think he's read but hasn't actually read? Stephen King answers those questions and more in the latest edition of 'What Ya' Readin'? #Colbert #WhatYaReadin
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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2357 - Danse Macabre - WHAT I AM READING PART EIGHT
Usually, today is dedicated to COMIC BOOK SUNDAY, but no comics today. Just a quick recap on what what I am reading and then a bunch of images (and one video) of material related to Danse Macabre, the Dance of Death.
Okay, so I am still reading
Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow, and making significant headway.
I am also reading
A Year in the Country: Straying from the Pathways by Stephen Prince
A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brain Eno's Diary by Brian Eno
Don't you just love the Italian edition above? And one of the domestic editions below?
The Danse Macabre from which Stephen King takes the title for his book on horror books and films and whey they terrify us comes from an allegory of the universality of death that began to be popular in art and music in the late Middle Ages, primarily in the second half of the 1400s.
When I searched Google for "Danse Macabre," I was astounded, though not surprised, at how many images existed.
Here's a collection of a few choice ones, and I am sure I will collect more and do another edition later.
The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel, Wikipedia [Public Domain]
A German painting of the Danse Macabre. Nine women of different social rank from empress to fool dance with the dead. The entire economy of salvation is depicted, from the Fall, through the crucifixion, to Heaven and Hell. Twelve more traditional Dance Macabre figures, from pope and emperor down to fool, surround the central image. Wikimedia Commons.
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