Dave Howlett

@davehowlett.bsky.social

Comics mostly. https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/parallelworldsprog

I went on a Micronauts kick a few years back and started wondering what a mid-eighties live-action movie adaptation might have looked like. This is my ideal version right here, although looking back on it I now realize I left out a crucial detail: creature effects by Rob Bottin.

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If you owe money to somebody—specifically, somebody who doesn’t have much money to spend on quality muscle—you just might wind up making the acquaintance of one Trip Hazard, world’s clumsiest badass. And he just might wind up in a body cast (again).

The polar opposite reactions here to the deaths of Sam Neill and Lindsey Graham are such a reminder that we all have a choice whether to live our lives in a way that brings joy or misery to those around us. I think if you’re remembered fondly as Sam Neill is today, you’ve pretty much won at life.

We finished the bizarre and fascinating docuseries BRING ME THE BEAUTIES last night, a wild story about a weirdo socialite/alien from Arcturus and his cult of supermodel followers in 1980s NYC. It also ties in to my beloved EXORCIST III!

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I met Chris Claremont at a store appearance in 1991 and he showed off several unlettered photostat pages from this story, which ultimately went published. As you can imagine, it looked pretty cool.

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A friend loaned me this last night. Had no idea George Kennedy had written not only this but at least one more fictional novel about himself as a sleuth solving murders! His own CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND:

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40 years ago this summer, the New Universe was unleashed to, let’s say, mixed reception. It’s definitely a bit of a trash fire, but I’ll always have a soft spot for it (one that’s admittedly largely based around the hype leading up to it, kinda like the SW prequels).