I gotta post this one. I just received a mock-up of the cover of The Nightmare Frontier from the artist (Chad Savage), and I about crapped a load of bricks. Scared me slap to death. 



For those of you who read my "unofficial" novel, Dark Shadows: The Labyrinth of Souls, the "Xianges arachnid" in that is a close cousin to the critter on this cover.

Agreed; I don't find it offensive, and yes, it's somewhat amusing. Dan was a public figure and even in death is open to such quips, though whether it's in good taste is debatable. It didn't sound cruel; more a relatively good-natured jab. If Dan's survivors were to find it offensive, they might be within their rights to request an apology; but if they aren't, I don't think it's anyone's business to be offended on their behalf. Just MHO, but I imagine Dan might have even appreciated the irreverence of the remark.

I was a big fan of Dr. Who in the late 70s, early 80s, but I never watched any of the ones after Peter Davison. I did catch this week's ep on Sci Fi, and I was quite pleasantly taken with it. I expect I'll keep watching.

I may actually be involved in a Dr. Who anthology the BBC is putting out later this year. We shall see...

Updated the Dreams of the Dark section. Needs a bit of cleaning up, but it's late, I'm tired, and I'll get to it tomorrow. For my author stuff, I copied and pasted the Wikipedia entry and axed a bunch of code.

For all its shortcomings, I enjoyed the Leviathans, at least in the beginning. There was a creepy edge there, and having Barnabas back as a meanie was much-needed at the time. I've always disliked the fact that he was -forced- to be wicked. He had plenty of ruthlessness inside anyway, and I prefer his natural vampiric evil to his being a pawn any day. I admit to some prejudice in this regard, though; as I've said here plenty of times, when I first got to watch DS on a regular basis back in its original run, the Leviathans episodes were just starting up. I look back on these with great fondness, and it was only later -- in the mid-70s -- that I got to see the earlier episodes. I'll take the Leviathans over Adam any day... Never was there a more tedious subplot, though I give Robert Rodan a lot of credit for playing the part better than it deserved.

I listened to segment 1 last night, and it sounds like some folks are having maybe a little much fun. Stop it. There is to be -no- fun. Period.

No, Raineypark and I are two entirely different people. I'm the nice one.

 

"Come again, Rainey?"