Fun fact: Tigra has crashed two Avengers quinjets while dealing with Dr. Demonicus in two storylines separated by six years.
Exhibit A: IRON MAN #193 (January 15, 1985)
Exhibit B: AVENGERS WEST COAST #73 (June 4, 1991)
I'm close to securing my first autographed King book (very excited!), but now I'm trying to figure out how best to take care of and display it. I'd love to know how you all do it.
Have you ever written a book that will never see the light of day? I'm talking about one of your first books, or something you wrote when you were younger, that's so awful it would destroy any credibility you might have as a writer.
When I was in college, I wrote A Metaphor of October. I was madly in love with this book and honestly thought it was going to be the next great American novel.
If the title didn’t give it away, AMOO was a pretentious 200-page novel about a college student (suspiciously very much like me) struggling to find love in an uncertain world. Look, I’ve done questionable things in my life, but there’s a good chance that this book might be the worst thing I’ve ever done.
I was so proud of it, I printed it out and gave it to my friends and family to read. I had seen soldiers return from war looking less haunted and damaged. Their reviews were along the lines of “Interesting,” “Wow, that’s something,” and “Well, those are sentences that go one after another.”
I have one copy left. Check out those 90s fonts!
What's your book?
This is a question I've asked a few times over the years with nothing to show for it, so this place might be my last hope.
I'm looking for a vampire movie I saw on TV as a kid in the 80s. I remember it being on WTOG's Creature Feature with Dr. Paul Bearer (a Tampa show), but it could have been Commander USA's Groovie Movies. That said, I've gone through the list of movies from both shows and still haven't found it. It was definitely a Saturday afternoon movie.
I believe the film was from the 60s or 70s, in English (though it could have been dubbed), and felt like a 1960s/Hammer-style period piece with a castle and idyllic countryside, but I'm pretty sure it's not a Hammer film.
The ending is what's stayed with me over the decades. A child has been hidden outside of town for safety. Another child comes to find them and says the nightmare is over or something to that effect. They embrace. And then it's revealed that the child in hiding has become a vampire.
At least, that's what I think I remember.
Anyone know what this could be?
Edit for more info: The scene I remember had a slow, dreamy quality. I remember the child slowly walking outside of the town. Wherever they hid the other child, it was far away. Maybe a crumbling church?
One of my favorite reading experiences in the last couple of years was re-reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series and listening to the Kingslingers podcast as they discussed the book chapter by chapter.
As an avid reader who doesn't have friends who read as much as I do or book clubs nearby, this podcast felt like a revelation.
Can anyone recommend any podcasts like this for any book?
King is a favorite of mine, but my reading tastes are all over the map, so come at me with anything. Thanks.
I thought some of you might get a kick out of this Polish edition of Firestarter.
This is the first Polish edition, published by Phantom Press International in 1992. Originally, it used the English title, but later editions and translations used the Polish title: Podpalaczka.
The cover "artist", as you can see, took significant liberties and borrowed from the Nightbreed VHS cover art.
This might be fun. I moved away from Tampa back in 2003. At the time, I was living in South Tampa right next to the Dubliner Irish Pub and enjoying life a little too much.
My question to you is this: if I were to revisit Tampa 23 years later, what do you think would surprise me the most about the city?
Penny University was a coffee shop on E Busch Blvd back in the mid-90s. It had a really fun spoken-word open mic on Wednesday nights, and these evenings were especially impactful for me as a young writer. I have a lot of great memories of the place and the people there.
At the time, I had a small book I brought with me, and I'd pass it around the room for people to write and/or doodle in. I've kept this book all these years later, and I'm proud to have it in my library as a snapshot of a specific time and place in my life.
I thought it might be fun to share some of the pages here. Who knows, maybe you'll see something you wrote three decades ago.
Does anyone remember Penny University?
One of my favorite running bits in AVENGERS WEST COAST was Wonder Man flying away in anger, either from Wanda or because of Wanda. The property damage he caused on the way out is a bonus.
I was delighted to see the trend continue in WONDER MAN (V2).
Panels from AVENGERS WEST COAST #63, #66, and #69-70 and WONDER MAN #12.
I'm sure there are more, but this is what I found so far.
I know this is a long shot, but I'm looking for a Tampa-based (maybe?) folk singer/songwriter.
I first saw him at Penny University, a really cool coffee shop on E Busch Blvd back in the 90s, and I last saw him perform at the Dubliner Irish Pub in South Tampa back in 2010 or so.
I don't know his name. I can barely remember what he looked like. But I do remember he had long hair and played a guitar.
I still think about one of his songs (I believe it was "Little Hiroshimas") to this day, and I'd love to connect with him and maybe get a copy of the song.
Does anyone know who I might be talking about?
