“Life is so difficult,” “That’s what they all tell you…” “No they don’t! Everyone’s always going on about how it’s all gonna turn out OK, that’s it’s a process, that you should stop complaining…” “I suppose the difference is in the company we keep, then…” “What are you saying?” “Exactly what I said.” “No, no, [...]
A PULP SERIAL ADVENTURE! to read the previous installment, click here… The students at the University of Malta’s Archaeology department were about to call it day, when an unexpected set of phone calls turned a quiet down upside down. Imagine their surprise when they got to see the mysterious visitors announced by these calls, whom [...]
By Kris Green I was twelve when they started talking to me. It was a difficult time, a lot of bad things all happened at once. My mom started drinking when she and dad split up and he got custody of my brother and me. That wasn’t so bad, but then we moved to a [...]
After spending my summer collecting melanoma points, barbecuing meat of dubious origin and species, trying to avoid the horde of foreign students plaguing the island and sabotaging one’s own synaptic network by watching inane television series, I feel like a zombie. Damn. With an appropriately glum mood, I commence this post with a sober definition [...]
[Writer] Warren Ellis [Artists] Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary [Publisher] Wildstorm [Date] July 2010 [ISBN] 7-61941-29398-1 The Authority at Wildstorm This issue is a reprint of the first chapter of The Authority: Relentless. The first page of The Authority shows the Earth as seen from space and the simple sentence “They think there’s no one [...]
Archivist’s note: Good King Ulrick has decreed that this tale, relating Simon the Kingmaker’s early childhood, is to be transcribed in the Imperial Archives. The original author is unknown, but it is believed to have been first recorded over a century ago. This tale is often told in the South, near the Kingmaker’s birthplace of [...]
A PULP SERIAL ADVENTURE! to click the previous installment, click here… Barely thirty minutes had passed since Hercules Gray and his companions descended down the limpid Mediterranean waters in search of an underwater temple, before they were already back on the surface, aboard the luxury catamaran making their means of transport. Stripping off the wet [...]
By Kris Green “Helen… there was an accident…” “Hello, hello? Is there anybody there?” She said. “Helen, listen to me,” I said, my voice was already frantic with panic. Her voice on the line went dead, when she spoke again I could tell she was becoming frustrated. It was the spaces between the words, as [...]
To say that Mr. Promski was surprised would be an understatement. He’d always felt an outsider in this country, and after twenty years he still didn’t understand its people, with their strange customs and little quirks. But as he stood in front of the fireplace, trying desperately to keep warm, the ends of [...]
Part I Part II Part III Part IV *** “There is a scuff on the gentleman’s shoe” say I in a hush-hush voice, “see, already I am changing Jack!” Nowadays my eyes are nearly as sharp as his in the dark. He could hit a top hat with a coin faster than you can yell [...]
