Anyone remember the Tapping the Vein series that adapted his Books of Blood stories into comics? I actually had the entire run of those nice deluxe Hellraiser comics too up until about issue #26, when I stopped collecting them. I wound up selling the entire series over eBay though, a decision I now regret. The art in…

Agreed. The scale of it probably has something to do with it, but the whole concept of the different realms and how they’re connected, the assorted beings that populate those worlds, his concept of God, and Pie ‘o’ Pah, one of the greatest fantasy characters ever created . . . it was all just quintessentially…

I didn’t like Sacrament either. It bored me to tears. I did enjoy Coldheart Canyon, though I feel it could’ve been much better. I actually think it would’ve worked/could work better as a film. But yeah, those early books were just unbelievably amazing. My favorite still is Imajica, followed closely by Weaveworld. I…

I recently bought the audio version of Weaveworld just for the pleasure of hearing it read aloud, as my very favorite of his novels, and was left kind of dumbfounded by the new introduction Barker wrote for the book's anniversary edition (30th?). It’s full of lots of grumpiness about how unattainable any kind of…

I’m with your friend on this one. Both great. But Imajica is just mind-blowingly epic.

Same here, Weaveworld was first and holds that special place in my hellbound heart :) Still, it’s been too long since I’ve read the classics, I have to make an effort to correct that!

I gotta reread Weaveworld again, haven’t read that one in probably almost 20 years. I was always more into Imajica and the Art books:)

Those are both totally on my list, I will scoot them as per your recommendation. Also, research-wise, I was really impressed with Summer of Night. I have been to Brimfield, and I don’t know if he went back before he wrote the book or just went from childhood memory, but dayumn.

I’m kinda really into this Franklin expedition, and I would like to totally vouch for this weird and awesome book and all the amazing work Simmons put into it. Heads up it’s horror fiction, not factual or based on a real theory of what happened, but the amount of research is amazing, and the book is beautifullying…

...Daniel Faraday... loved that character... sniff...

For some reason I can’t post pictures but...

Oh LOST...

I figure he’ll be a hero of the people, the Avengers will hear about him, Stark or someone else (Fury, Coulson?) will seek him out to represent “their side” of the upcoming Civil War.

Did you see Iron Man 3? Remember, Peter is also a scientist, just like Stark and Banner.

The bestest example of these is seeing An Idiot Abroad with Karl Pilkington.
Honest, real sides of the world, that ironically make me want to see them more.

“I will never love my children as much as I hate faggots.”

I was at a Tigers game that rained out a few years ago with my son. Running to the car we noticed there was a show at the Fillmore across the street and decided to tryn hustle some cheap tickets if possible. Mainly to get out of the rain, we scored a pair of Snow Patrol tickets for $17 (I'd never even heard of them).…

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