At its core, Sebastian O is very much the sort of thing Moore was describing when he talked about his Image work aiming to be “better than average stories for 13-to-15-year olds.” Its central n...
2025-11-18 23:20:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe From Hell Act IV omnibus. I'll get a full chapter post out in a bit and give it the tag so that it's findable with the other full chapters, but I don't wanna spam you all.
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2025-11-17 19:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostAnd that's Act IV. Omnibus forthcoming. Thanks for your support and patience as I worked my way through this absolute beast of a chapter. It may not be the longest of the project (it's currently fo...
2025-11-04 22:59:46 +0000 UTC View PostI can have little a 1700 word digression, as a treat.
(One section to go, I think?)
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Much as he had picked up on the same fluctuation of Ideaspace as Shinya Tsukamoto when cra...
2025-11-01 00:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe end of the chapter, though not, obviously, the last section I have to write.
Some two years later Kitchen Sink Press released an eleventh issue of from Hell entitled “The Dance of the G...
2025-10-30 18:32:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt was really only a matter of time before I came out with a work of psychogeography. I’m married to El Sandifer, and my favorite Alan Moore is Unearthing, for god’s sake. Insomnia...
2025-10-28 20:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostAmazingly, the fact that "The unfortunate Mr Druitt" does not have a period after "Mr" while "The apprehensions of Mr. Lee" does is not a typo. I'm sure there is a typo, which someone will inevitab...
2025-10-27 18:10:29 +0000 UTC View PostBeat Silksong. Back to work with me.
This
2025-10-25 01:23:44 +0000 UTC View PostI've got like four more bosses left in Silksong, and I'm honestly quite eager to get back to work, but while polish off the last couple murder bugs, I figure I should actually catch up on the omnib...
2025-10-23 00:15:03 +0000 UTC View PostI got a comment on Patreon from Weronika on my ritual self-immolation, “I Feel Flames,” noting that she appreciated the chance to look at the construction of a ritual, and somewhere around the ...
2025-10-17 20:54:13 +0000 UTC View PostEnd of Act III. Omnibus to follow over the weekend.
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That apocalypse would form the sole content of Chapter ten, “The best of all tailors.” As Moore described it in his synopsis...
2025-10-10 20:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a story Brian Eno tells about being commissioned to create the startup sound for Windows 95, whereby the agency provide a huge list of adjectives about how the music should sound—futurist...
2025-10-08 23:43:59 +0000 UTC View PostProbably a few days before the next section, as there's research to be done.
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Magic was far from the only thing, or even the main thing that “From Hell” is concerned with, howe...
2025-10-05 20:55:09 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I recently got another lesson in believing people when they tell you who they are, and found myself pushed out of yet another religious community over principles. This was the communit...
2025-10-04 20:55:26 +0000 UTC View PostThis is actually two separate chunks of chapter, which will be interrupted by another section. They read perfectly fine as a contiguous stretch, however, so I'll leave the interleaving for the omni...
2025-10-03 23:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostI watched this while making grape jam yesterday, which was very funny.
A short time later, in February of 1994, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell took a meeting that would be crucial for the suc...
2025-10-01 22:46:40 +0000 UTC View PostIn which a digression is taken so that about fifty others don't have to be.
Consider William Morris, for instance. One of the great British polymaths, Morris was a major nexus point of Victor...
2025-09-28 20:05:56 +0000 UTC View PostAnd we're back. Act III is still a little unstructured and inchoate, and so I'm starting off chronologically, picking right up from the end of Act II. Which I'm just now realizing I never sent the ...
2025-09-19 20:30:34 +0000 UTC View PostPart six of an annual blog series on the worst comic ever created.
Every year I write an essay about the 9/11/2011 installment Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Thus far they’ve incl...
2025-09-12 01:36:31 +0000 UTC View PostIn which I hit a beat I've been working towards for twelve years.
This is the last part of Act II. I'll get an omnibus out shortly, but I'm traveling over the weekend so may not get to it un...
2025-09-04 23:44:40 +0000 UTC View PostOne more section of Act II to write after this, which will be an absolute doozy, though thankfully not in anything like the way that fucking Sinclair section was.
Taboo #5 came out at the end...
2025-08-31 23:21:17 +0000 UTC View PostYou ever have a 1500 word section that takes you two weeks? That isn't entirely the fault of the material—I had quite a bit of travel through there, and have just been swamped in general. But gos...
2025-08-29 23:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostI will of course get back to this in Volume 6 or 7.
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As if all of this wasn’t enough for the pages of one soon to be out of business horror anthology, Taboo #5 also contained the...
2025-08-15 00:25:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe use of “architecture” is, of course, far from accidental. Another of the structuring elements of “A State of Darkness” is Gull’s involvement in Freemasonry. Obviously the vision of Ja...
2025-08-11 04:24:24 +0000 UTC View PostOh right, I never posted the omnibus of Act I.
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Moore, on the other hand, was a busy man indeed. This fact was largely why he found himself having to crank out silly Image comics o...
2025-08-10 00:19:41 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I was a kid in the American South, my Just Grandma had a VCR and exactly three video tapes. I watched all of those movies until the tapes disintegrated. One was the live action Popeye 2025-08-07 22:11:30 +0000 UTC View Post
When I was reviewing Janis Ian's record Between the Lines for pride week, I came across an absolutely horrid interview where Ian was hounded about her sexuality. By 'came across' here, I mean "went...
2025-07-31 23:22:43 +0000 UTC View PostMorrison, for their part, spent considerably less time working for Image. Indeed, prior to doing the creator-owned Happy! with Image in 2012—by which point Image was a very different com...
2025-07-29 20:08:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, the omnibus version of LWIA v4 Cha
2025-07-28 18:32:15 +0000 UTC View PostAt last, the first.
I'll package this into an Act I omnibus and get that out in the coming days, along with revised omnibi of the first two chapters that balance the "comics industry implode...