EDITOR’S NOTE: I don’t think I’ll be receiving or posting these ramblings from friend Gary on a daily basis, but when he keeps touching on subjects near and dear to me (steampunk and Vincent Price) it’s hard not to share. Read on and enjoy . . . . . . . . .
GUEST COLUMN BY GARY SCOTT BEATTY
BURIED. We're buried in snow today on the west coast of Michigan, and will most likely be buried-plus tomorrow. Looking out from inside warmth, it's easy to see how close humans are to destruction. Mother nature is a bitch, and all we have are systems for warmth and protection few of us fully understand.
New today, over at the Gods of Aazurn webcomic, Ms. Vedma has a visitor. We now know a reason the Vedma Cult exists. GO TO: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/gods-of-aazurn/list?title_no=202820
Read and enjoy, but know the end of this storyline is revealed in the Gods of Aazurn: Witches graphic novel, now up on Kickstarter at StrangeHorror.com. GO TO: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/garyscottbeatty/gods-of-aazurn-creepy-cosmic-horror-comics-lovecra/ You can show your enthusiasm for the work and the free stuff you get all year from these emails at the Kickstarter.
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STEAMPUNK APOCALYPSE. You may already know about Kevin LaPorte of Inverse Press. His Clown Town stories appeared way back in my own Indie Comics Magazine #3.
Kevin and company are in the last days of a Kickstarter, Last Ride for Horsemen: It's the Apocalypse in Steampunk.
"In Last Ride for Horsemen, the Apocalypse falls on the last town in creation, and the Four Horsemen descend on the place one at a time to slowly, painfully eradicate it and all its denizens. The monstrous plowman Famine razes their crops amidst a swarm of cyborg locusts. The snake oil salesman Pestilence gifts them faux medicine to poison their water supply. Now, the Lady War sets the starving, cannibalistic townspeople against the aristocrats who hoard what remains. But salvation may lie with these privileged few - an arrogant tycoon, a socialite mayor, a hardened sheriff, and a grizzled hired gun. Can these mere humans survive the onslaught of the very forces of the end times?"
You will like this comic. Hell, you will like all three of these comics, all offered in this Kickstarter. GO TO: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laporte/last-ride-for-horsemen-war-sets-the-apocalypse-to
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FREE VINCENT PRICE. I'm surprised how many Vincent Price fans don't know that, from 1944 to 1951, he was the voice of Leslie Charteris' character Simon Templar, better known as The Saint.
Velvet-voiced Price was perfect for the character. In an era when radio was filled with hard boiled detectives and police procedurals, The Saint stood out. Self confident, with looks, wealth and wit, Simon Templar was a bit of a dandy, enjoying the finer things in life.
Yes, I enjoy Roger Moore's Saint on television, 1962 to 1969. But I have read many of the pulp stories, which began in 1928, and Vincent Price the actor comes much closer to The Saint character I envisioned in print.
The radio plays can be listened to or downloaded from the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/TheSaintVincentPriceOTR Unfortunately, there are misnamed duplicates included. But, hey, it's free.
If you don't know who Vincent Price is, well, I just don't know what to do with you --
Take care, do good things for yourself and others, listen to music, and lift up your head to look around occasionally -- you deserve the big picture.
In glorious service to our Aazurn overlords,
Gary Scott Beatty
StrangeHorror.com
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