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I.S. Theater Presents: Sherlock Holmes (new story by David Kempf)

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David Kempf, a best-selling author found on Amazon and reviewed here before, had nothing whatsoever to do with what you do not like about this video. However, look upon it with beginner's luck, and know David wrote the dialogue and narration on the first page of his delightful new story, There Is Nothing To Fear. He only asked for reviews, you know, so if you like this so much, please get through your stormy weather to give him Five Stars, OK? Now, the black cat is a later addition. You must greenscreen them carefully, but isn't T'Challa grand here for atmosphere? You can find more T-Chall at :

Spider-Man2099: an alternative for the future

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We wrap up the opening storyline of Spider-Man 2099, and look at the first successful alternate timeline series, Guardians of the Galaxy.

Spider Man Human Torch: 1st Marvels

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Superman and Bat Man- well, Tonto and the Lone Ranger- heck, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid- friendship's always been part of the appeal of our classic heroes. Even Wolverine benefits from someone on his Six, storywise. Now I want to focus on early Marvel- I was fascinated by the way they built a storyverse, with guest stars and shared villains and footnotes connecting your earlier Marvels to the one in your hands. The Hulk/ Thing rivalry kicked off the very same month (in Fantastic Four #12) that Spider-Man visited and antagonized the Fantastic Four for the first time in Amazing Spider-Man #1 (his second appearance, of course). With Spidey, they had an apparent hit on their hands, so why not mix him up with the teen member of their flagship title, the Fantastic Four? While trying to build their nascent - I'm going to use my own term, Heroverse- they repurposed their weird/mystery/UFO/monster titles as vehicles for the new characters. Torch got three years as the co...

Marvel Team-Up: "Mischief Night" with The Phantom Rider

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Marvel Team-Up “MiSCHIEF NighT” SPIDER-MAN and PHANTOM RIDER Page 1 Spidey swings over Manhattan, thinking of the Midnight Western he saw before heading out. Flash! 2 Is that Jack O’Lantern? No, it’s Jack Stingy, who thinks Spider-Man is the Devil’s emissary. 3 They clash! Stingy’s a bit like Mysterio in battle. He has a special locket he was just about to use to activate a time travel spell. Their scuffle puts Spider-man close to the locket, which picks up his concept of the Wild West. Jack Stingy activates it, happy to have a target for his mischief, and takes them to an American Southwest of the 1860s by the end of page four. So, we’ll pick up page 5 with Carter Slade, in his guise as The Phantom Rider and it’s the dawn, the day of Mischief Night. He's using his spectral dust and fists, wrapping up a serious rustling plot. Show Nancy, his girlfriend, in a locket; she’s coming on the next train. As is mentioned in front of Carter, we flash to: Some Tequila is ...

Browser retrogames and the future

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So. We can take classic game play, in our browser. Thanks, Johann! So, you can modify this. If you modified the game, what themes and concepts do you think would work? For me, I see a hand full of our I.S. concepts, translating into such play. Lately, I've been pondering the place of video games in my childhood culture, personally. I didn't know about any 1983 game sales crash: my TV was suddenly avatar to an entirely new way of game play. I didn't see much about video games in comic books I saw, but in 1982, those ads arrived. Imagining the games and making up my own pretend arcade visits were great fun to me. I wonder if you might remember the first game commercials you saw? They didn't seem to pop up in my market, northwest Georgia/ Atlanta, until 1982 or so, when they began their media saturation for a couple of years, including 'Starcade,' a syndicated show taped in San Fransisco, and many Saturday morning cartoons from ABC and later, CBS. T...

Recording Day- a painting by Lofty Crow Studios, featuring I.S.

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I asked Brian if he could listen to the songs from the new EP, a) None of the Above, and create some cover art. Did I prefer pontilism? Impressionism? (This.) What color? (Mauve) Any image? (Non, go 4 it) The entire process took around a week. The painting's waiting out the weekend in the storage space of Lofty Crow Studios in Beach Head, NC. Check out his FB Lofty Crow Studios page. The gallery this new studio's assembled in a few months' time, expanding upon works generated while admiring the outdoors (leading to the foundation of the studio, full-time). Please consider LCS, when you want to purchase an excellent painting of eastern seaboard wild life! Think he's fond of Album Covers, too. But it could be anything you can hang. 10 x 10 12x 12 24 x24. Contact him for commissions. https://www.facebook.com/LoftyCrowStudio >https://www.facebook.com/LoftyCrowStudio Check us out here: https://integr8dsoul.com/

Peaches Kane: Awakening to the most supernatural of worlds, in her first adventure

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Peaches Beltempo’s summer job- assisting with LARP quests for children, in the sunny outdoors- takes a lot of imagination, love of life, humor, games, and always, water. The element of surprise has led to laughter and curiosity, ideas from the young co-creators of the adventure. Bad surprises, you can watch for. The mobile dungeon master learns all the rules of safe fun, dealing with scuffle of guiding kids of various personalities, their safety versus the freedom of the outdoors. But no matter how much you believe in the pretend play...it’s never too dark, and never too real… Or...it wasn’t. Yet, here they are. The darling group of children carry illusions of dazzling credibility about their person, a malicious air and uncanny power. Their forms break into distorted smiles, like hungry things, bent on satiation. The occult force that brings these six, fragile beings closer, with energy-consuming, inhuman aspects around Beltempo, grasping for a coherent response here ...