What I'm reading now

This is the volume I'm reading at the moment.

This is the story I'm nearly finished with.

This is the novel I was first introduced to featuring this wonderful early tale.  Long ago, back in my youth.

My daily desktop

Keeps me pulpy all day long.

Karl Kerschl does The Shadow

I'm a sucker for gray scale illustrations.  I like the hat although the hat band is a bit too pronounced.  And, of course, I don't care for the scarf but other than that I like this little sketch.

Have a Happy & Heroic Thanksgiving

Wishing all agents a very Happy & pulpy Thanksgiving.

Another favorite and the covers it spawned

Not for the quality of the painting but for the influence this cover had on another hero of mine... The Bat-Man.  Even Neal Adams did an homage,

although he was just updating the cover that was drawn so early in Bruce Wayne's career.

Just filling in with some of my favorite covers

So simple yet so very effective.  I try to look at these through the eyes of a young me if I were seeing them on the stands for the first time.  The two weeks (and later whole month) of anticipation between issues would have me at the newsstand the day it was supposed to hit the racks.  I do the same thing at my local comic shop these days with the reprints.  This cover would've have gotten me very excited to know what lay beneath the cover.  

Settling on a new game

After the Thanksgiving holiday this week Under the Blue Light will try a new game.  Not sure if it will be as easy as the cover clews that have been shown the past few years, but here's hoping the Master's agents will give it a whirl, nonetheless.