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NEXUS & BRONZE STAR By Alex Ness August 26, 2026 THE CREATIVE TEAM: Author Mike Baron, Artist Kelsey Shannon THE KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN: Found Here A space faring planet destroyer and three powered children wreak havoc. The world of Nexus is unsolvable, for anyone else, but he makes certain to prevent disaster. THE KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN: Found Here BRONZE STAR, A PROSE NOVEL It is on Amazon right…
YOSHITAKA AMANO: A view of an artist of excellence By Alex Ness August 23, 2026 ALL IMAGES SHOWN ARE COPYRIGHT RESERVED TO THEIR CREATOR/OWNER use is to illustrate the artist, and as fair use. No rights asserted. Click to enlarge each image. This week I am sharing a look at the magnificent work of Yoshitaka Amano. His work at one time was thought, in the West, to be anime or gaming art. There was…
Mongoose News Dark Conspiracy is finally here! Dark Conspiracy Are you ready to defend our world? Dark Conspiracy is a horror roleplaying game set in our own modern world – or just a few years hence. A terrible threat lurks in the shadows, one utterly unknown by most of humanity. If the world is to be kept safe, this ignorance has to be maintained. A conspiracy of secrecy, ignorance and darkness…
QUOTES FROM PROSE AUTHORS, POETS & CRITICS By Alex Ness August 17, 2026 I recommend each writer for the whole of their works. Yet sometimes, it is powerful to be awash in the wisdom of each of the writers LINKS: MY POETRY AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com HERE: Poplitiko.Blogspot.Com MY PUBLISHED WORKS Social Media https://bsky.app/profile/alexanderness63.bsky.social https://x.com/alexnesspoetry All…
MY CURRENT WISH LIST Or, it is all about me! By Alex Ness August 12, 2026 ART AND WORDS TPBs And Collections Why that's an unusual selection, what is Alex Ness trying to tell us? well, I like art. I like Art books. I like art museums. And I like comics. My mind is not necessarily easily pleased, but if I am surrounded by beauty or fascinating images the story of the work shines through. My…
GROOVY STUFF By Alex Ness August 10, 2026 ART BOOKS THAT KICK ASS I was asked if there are collections of sci fi, fantasy, comic book artists that one might keep even if they can't afford the original, they can remember and look over the works in a work. However good they are, these aren't the groundbreaking, auction record breaking, museum works, that one might think of when considering art. They…
FANTASTICAL STUFF By Alex Ness July 28, 2026 AGAIN, Or, MORE FANTASY COMICS While the titles seem endless to most readers, to the fans of fantasy genre comics there instead appears to be that it is a good start, but in general there are too few comics of a fantasy genre. I am not intending to insult anyone's taste. I am not suggesting that the people saying we need more are blind to the many that…
FANTASY: I AM SORRY TO SAY... By Alex Ness July 23, 20206 It might not surprise you, for whatever reason you also enjoy the worlds of popular media, that in at least half of the emails or texts I receive, I get asked why I don't post much, at all, about works I didn't enjoy. No one ever likes everything. But that was never the my goal. I received so many items through the mail, from about 2002 to…
A WORLD AT MODERN WAR By Alex Ness (and source info boardgamegeek.com) July 20, 2026 It has been a violent state of being in the Ukrainian/Crimean region. And it has gone on for 4 years. You might ask yourself if Trump won his greatly desired Nobel peace prize if he might have tried harder to stand between two neighbors fighting, one for its existential life, and the other for the hubris of a…
A DISCUSSION WITH ERIK LARSEN By Alex Ness July 17, 2026 BALTIMORE CON 2026 Features Erik Larsen and his prolific creations. Holy shizzle dude, that is very cool! Is it about your 280 plus issues, and all the events therein, or is it beginning a sort of count down to 300? When you reach 300 will the comic world be doing a happy dance? Erik Larsen: I don't know about the comic world but I'll be…
A MIKE BARON BOOKAPALOOZA By Alex Ness July 13, 2026 Mike Baron has written hundreds of comics. And he has written 20 prose novels. He has created fandoms for his work, his humor, his imagination, with his ideas, words, and his ability to make his characters speak the way your mind would suggest they should. His works of fiction feel like truth, a concept known as Verisimilitude. As t he Meriam…
“ In summary, we have here [in the Soviet Union] a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with US there can be no permanent modus vivendi that it is desirable and necessary that the internal harmony of our society be disrupted, our traditional way of life be destroyed, the international authority of our state be broken, if Soviet power is to be secure. This political force has…
