October 2023 - Arkhaven Site

31OctOctober 31, 2023

Cheap Thrills: The Audio Drama Edition

Where has the audience gone? That is the increasingly terrified cry in Hollywood. In past times, if one form of media lost customers, you didn’t have too much trouble figuring out where they went. Which was to another form of media. In the nineteen-twenties radio bit in to publishing. In the fifties box-office receipts for weeknight showings, dropped severely, while the number of TVs in homes increased. CD sales fell through the basement at the same time that iPods started appearing under Christmas trees. DVD sales...

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30OctOctober 30, 2023

Doctor Who’s Best Horror Episodes

I hadn’t really planned to have a Halloween theme this year, it just sort of happened but since I’ve been leaning so heavily into British Sci-Fi Horror, I would be remise in duties as an internet hack if I didn’t pick the lowest hanging fruit available. For thousands of years The Doctor, a judgmental emo-Mister Spock has sailed across all of time and space in a particularly British peculiarity. He constantly weighs the human race and always finds us wanting but...

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27OctOctober 27, 2023

Arktoons Spotlight: Halloween Special #5

Welcome to the Arktoons Spotlight, a regular feature at the Arkhaven Blog. The Spotlight is where I take a look at one title from the amazing world of Arkhaven’s webtoons. If you aren’t familiar with Arktoons, this is meant for you. I am the Dark Herald; I do the blogging here at Arkhaven.com. The blog is mostly pop culture news, reviews, and opinion, in short, the usual. And you aren’t here for the blog. You’re here for the webtoons. Arkhaven is different from other webtoon publishers. While...

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27OctOctober 27, 2023

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26OctOctober 26, 2023

Book Discussion: A Night In the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

In the mood for a good Halloween story? I’ve got one for you. “I am a watchdog. My name is Snuff. I live with my master Jack outside of London now. I like Soho very much at night with its smelly fogs and dark streets. It is silent then and we go for long walks. Jack is under a curse from long ago and must do much of his work at night to keep worse things from happening. I keep watch while...

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25OctOctober 25, 2023

Interview: Alexander Macris

BUMPED 10/25/23: Alexander Marcris' long-awaited kickstarter for his Adventurer Conqueror King II and it has completely blown the doors off. It is currently sitting at FOUR times its goal. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/autarch/adventurer-conqueror-king-system-imperial-imprint-acks-ii Last year I did an interview with Alexander Macris. We covered a variety of his projects to include the first ACK system Here it is: ******** Yes, I’m pretending to be a reporter today. Not. A. Journalist. A reporter, there’s a difference in my mind. My introduction to Alexander Macris was rather typical...

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25OctOctober 25, 2023

Hammer Films Retrospective (Part VI) The Golden Age

Okay, it is Hammer Films so gold-plated is probably a little more accurate. You could always tell a Hammer Film just by the look of it, even if you had surfed-in just flipping channels on a Saturday night. There was something about it's aesthetic. Something about its style. Hammer in the Mid-Sixties was at its height. Their gorgeous look was and still is unmistakable. On a minuscule budget, Hammer delivered films that seemed pretty close to C. B. DeMille’s...

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23OctOctober 23, 2023

More Bad News For Disney

In a major shakeup, Jon Lassetter has moved to Netflix. I was kind of surprised about this myself. Skydance Animation has a huge production deal with Apple TV, it was part of a package deal that predated Lassetter’s joining the company. At the time everyone assumed Apple was taking on Disney head-to-head. Which is a little odd when you think about it. Frankly, the relationship between Disney and Apple has been an unusually close one since Iger bought out Pixar. Bob...

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23OctOctober 23, 2023

It Was Too Good to Be True

The Christopher Nolan plan for a trilogy of classic 1960s-era James Bond movies appears to be dead in the water. Barbara Brocolli has announced plans to further vandalize Ian Fleming's spy hero by... (*easy stomach, don't turnover) Reimagining James Bond for the modern world. The problem is that James Bond's fans aren't as deep into superhero, fantasy, and science fiction as genre fans. Most of Bond's fans are Culturalists and Flirts. Bond's fans are mostly normies, and normies haven't seen...

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20OctOctober 20, 2023

Zack Snyder Sinks His New Franchise

Zack Snyder's upcoming Rebel Moon is supposed to be a new franchise that will challenge Star Wars. Admittedly, this is pretty much like challenging the Walking Dead to a ballroom dance competition at this point, but it was nice to know somebody at least wanted to be number one. Now the truth is, I had serious doubts about Rebel Moon from the start because it IS from Zack Snyder. While he is a decent director, he is a very weak storyteller....

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