Tag: Anthony Perconti
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Title: The Best ‘70’s Comic Never Written (Part Two): Bronze Age Boogie #1 “Swords Against Dacron”
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 88, May 2019 May 2019I have always been a big fan of genre mash-ups. Types of stories (in any medium, really) that are an amalgamation of different elements that at first may not seem like an obvious choice to combine. But when they are done well, these combinations breathe new…
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The Colossus of Nyumbani
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 86, March 2019 In 1981, DAW Books published Imaro by Charles Saunders. The contents of this edition, six short stories, originally appeared in the Canadian fanzine run by comic book artist, Gene Day entitled Dark Fantasy. At the time of its publication, Imaro did not break any records in terms of sales. However, as the…
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Traveling Through This World of Woe: A Review of ‘Weirdworld’: Volume 0
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 84, January 2019 December 2018 Let me pose to you a philosophical quandary. What if God were a super-villain? What if he collected the shattered vestiges of the multiverse and re-forged it according to his own twisted intellect and desires? This exact question was the high concept premise behind…
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The Bane of the Sword Rulers: A Review of ‘Corum- The Coming of Chaos’
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 82, November 2018 2018 “There are more things in heaven and earth, HoratioThan are dreamt of in your philosophy.”-Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio In 1971, Michael Moorcock started a new fantasy series starring Corum Jhaelen Irsei, the Prince in the Scarlet Robe. The White Wolf omnibus edition, The Coming of Chaos, is…