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Troy Director’s Cut Boxset Unboxing
New article up at my website, right here!
I plucked up the Troy Director’s Boxset from Zia’s Records in December and was nostalgic back to the 2000s when I was hardcore collecting DVDs and special editions. Since folks seem to like unboxing articles and seeing contents inside of stuff, I did one for the Troy boxset. Check it out here.
Highlander Call for Papers
Michele has an active CFP on the Highlander franchise. She is looking for essays on the Highlander movies, the television show, comics, everything.
If you’re interested, check out the CFP at her website and please share with others. With a possible reboot on the horizon, this is definitely a book you want to be a part of.
Unofficial Emmanuelle / Black Emanuelle CFP
Sometime in the latter half of 2022 (after I am finished with AnnRadCon 2022) I plan on publishing an official CFP calling for essays on Emmanuelle and its sequels and spinoffs, Black Emanuelle and its sequels, and all other Emmanuelle knockoffs. I already have an interested publisher, but I want to present to them a fully laid out TOC for an ambitious collection as this.
Though my CFP will not go live until later 2022, if you have any interest in being a part of this collection, let me know! Send me an email or social media message (see my about me page for contact info) to let me know your interest. If you have an abstract already, even better.
Upcoming Website Articles
Believe it or not, I have two interviews I’ve conducted that I’ll be publishing at my website over the next two weeks. That makes three weeks in a row of non-weekly news roundups for this website! Prepare to mark your calendars.
On Wednesday March 9th my interview with Matthew Page about his upcoming book, 100 Bible Films, will be published here. The following week my interview with D. J. Kirkbride on the trade paperback release of his comic series, Errand Boys, will go online. I also have some other mini-essays/interviews in the works, so stay tuned!
General Neo-Peplum News
Supporting Isidora #3
G.A. Lungaro, author of the Lovecraft/neo-peplum comic series Isidora (see my interview with Lungaro on issue 1, or check out my unboxing of issue 2) is selling new merch at his web store to help fund the production of Isidora #3.
Items include the Cute Cthulhu Collection – stickers of Lovecraftian monsters cute-ified. He will also be exploring NFTs later on. For now, check out the website at darthdaddylunga.com.
John Carter Video Game Kickstarter
In big sword and planet news, a Kickstarter to create a John Carter FPS video game has been launched by Sci-Fi-London.
The game is in development right now and has some promising aspects, a big one being relocating John Carter to a WW2 setting and having him a spy in the employ of Ian Fleming! Aside from the Kickstarter proper, news for the game can be found on the official game social media accounts at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and YouTube. Right now it’s only for PC release, but cross fingers for a console version.
Adrastea Kickstarter
Another Kickstarter to take a look at is for the graphic novel Adrastea.
The campaign’s flavor text describes it as such:
Blessed or cursed with Immortality, the ageless king of Hyperborea wakes up from a millennium of self-imposed oblivion, having watched his kingdom crumble to time, along with all those he has ever loved. He decides to travel to Mount Olympus where he will confront the gods to ask why he was burdened with such an affliction and how he can end it. The journey will be long and treacherous and filled with unimaginable men and beasts of lore, but he has no fear of harm and all the time in the world…
The graphic novel is by Mathieu Bablet and published by Magnetic.
Gladiatrix Comic
Charley and Vlas Parlapanides, the masterminds behind the neo-peplum film Immortals and animated series Blood of Zeus are coming out with a new graphic novel called Gladiatrix. Screen Rant has some preview pages of the comic.
Ultimate List of Greek Mythology Films
Over at Bored Panda, writers Miglė Ivanauskaitė and Melanie Gervasoni list out the best Greek mythology pepla and neo-pepla. Not all these films are Greek Myth in origin, but regardless, their list (45 titles!) and order is as follows:
- The Odyssey (1997)
- Troy (2004) (note: see above or here for my unboxing!)
- Jason And The Argonauts (1962)
- 300 (2006)
- The 300 Spartans (1962)
- Immortals (2011)
- Hercules (1997)
- Wonder Woman (2017)
- Clash of the Titans (2010)
- Wrath of the Titans (2012)
- Spartacus (1960)
- Hercules (2014)
- Agora (2009)
- Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
- Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters (2013)
- 300: Rise Of An Empire (2014)
- Minotaur (2006)
- The Legend Of Hercules (2014)
- Alexander (2004)
- Helen Of Troy (1956)
- Iphigenia (1977)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- Spartacus (2004)
- Ulysses (1967)
- The Trojan Women (1971)
- Oedipus The King (1986)
- Antigone (1961)
- Orpheus (1950)
- Goliath And The Dragon (1960)
- Electra (1962)
- Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
- Medea (1969)
- Black Orpheus (1959)
- Oedipus Rex (1957)
- Hercules In New York (1970)
- Oedipus Mayor (1996)
- The First King (2019)
- Helena (1924)
- Hercules The Invincible (1964)
- Hercules (1983)
- Young Hercules (1998)
- Hercules and Xena (1998)
- The Fury Of Hercules (1962)
- Pygmalion (1938)
- The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962)