Without wanting to sound unduly alarmist, the Patreon has taken a troubling dip, and Penn and I could really use to see it go in the other direction a bit so that it covers our rent without a couple hundred dollar hole in the budget. If you enjoy the work we give away on this site, please consider supporting us. Previously in The Last War in Albion : The period following Alan Moore s magical…
In case you missed the news, Last War in Albion is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work for The Cuddled Little Vice, last year s book-length Sandman chapter. I would be remiss not to remind you that the Hugos are a fan-voted award, and you can participate by registering for a $50 WSFS Membership at LACon V , which, in addition to furthering my mad ambitions for world domination…
This is a shameless vanity post, but if I can t be shamelessly vain about this then what s the point of shameless vanity? I m absolutely delighted to announce that The Cuddled Little Vice, the Sandman chapter of Last War in Albion , has been nominated for the 2026 Hugo Award for Best Related Work. I would be remiss if I did not remind you that the Hugos are a fan award, and that you can, for $50,…
Previously in Last War in Albion : While Alan Moore was writing From Hell and going mad, Grant Morrison was palling around with their toxic best friend making remarkably shitty and cynical superhero comics. But what manner of woman could do such a thing? Some kind of divine manipulatrix, to tug at the loose strings of the world s jumper. And then, perhaps, when she s finished teasing the world,…
I’m pleased to announce the release of my debut spoken word album, Insomnia/While My Guitar Fails to Sleep . Insomnia began as an autobiographical spoken word essay about finding home as memories of childhood magic and grief. Or really it began as a melancholy sleepless night, but doesn t it always. A haunted piano accompanies me. Side B, While My Guitar Fails to Sleep , swipes those piano tracks…
CW: This post contains multiple graphic images, including Figure 1834, a photograph of a violently dismembered body. Previously in Last War in Albion : Alan Moore took a big payday cranking out goofy and low-effort superhero stories for fledgeling publisher Image Comics. White noise of arcane correspondences, meaning nothing. The light fails. The road inclines towards a chalk-smudged sky. Going…
Previously in Last War in Albion : Following the collapse of Big Numbers and his marriage, Alan Moore developed a surprising sideline career quickly churning out superhero comics for the shockingly high-paying Image Comics whilst the comics industry rapidly collapsed around him. My mother tells me I m a character in the apocalypse and my natural inclination is to assume that I m the sacred lamb.…
The Patreon is still lower than it should be to post this, but it s Christmas and I ain t no Grinch. Still, if you enjoy what we do here at Eruditorum Press, please consider backing us on Patreon . Independent blogs aimed at thoughtful and literate readers are an astonishing rarity these days, and this one only exists because of your support. Perhaps unexpectedly, given my feelings on the first…
I am doing War Between the Land and Sea reviews, but the Patreon is currently well below the “do them publicly” threshold, and I’m kind of guessing there’s not enough demand for them to change that. If that unexpectedly changes, obviously I’ll put them up here. But for now, the first one just went live over on Patreon. I will offer the slight plea that yesterday Penn and I had both a laptop and…
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the one hand, this is very silly because I’m a humanities PhD who mostly writes about comic books. On the other hand, we’re talking about a field in which one of the most influential thinkers is a Harry…