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News Roundup W/E 2021-04-04

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Podcast News

This past Thursday, Jessica Scott and myself were guests on the Scaredy Cats Podcast talking about the film The Slumber Party Massacre. The episode will go online on Thursday the 8th across all major podcast platforms (I recommend their Buzzsprout page).

Michele and I appeared on the Voice of Olympus program on Tuesday to talk EC Comics. Michele covered War Against Crime while I talked about Valor.

Due to timing, billing cycles, and so on, the newest episode of H. P. Lovecast Podcast will go online on April 5th.

Horror CFPs

I run the horror academics board for the Horror Writers Association. I try to add new CFPs for papers, presentations, and keep tabs on publishers who accept academic and non-fiction submission. When I update it, go forward, I’ll mention the updates here as well in order to help proliferate the CFPs. The board can be found here and can be viewed by anyone.

General Neo-Peplum News

Das Neue Evangelium

The Bible Films Blog has a write up of Das Neue Evangelium (The New Gospel, 2020), which contains shot-for-shot remakes of Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964).

John Carter Video Game

Sword and planet hero John Carter is getting a video game treatment called John Carter: Warlord of Mars. A website has been setup about the game as it develops at http://jcwom.com.

Elysian Fields: “The Pyramid Gambit”

The newest issue of the Elysian Fields comic series, “The Pyramid Gambit,” has started shipping. I’ve received my copy:

Elysian Fields: The Pyramid Gambit: Loot from the Indiegogo campaign

A call back: I interviewed Michael Oden about Elysian Fields #0 on my website. It can be read here.

Isidora issue #2 News

G. A. Lungaro has completed the script for Isidora #2. The new issue will have four different covers (Jay Espin, Vic King, Mark McKenna, and a mystery person). Issue 2 will also be crowdfunded via Indiegogo this time instead of Kickstarter and is expected to go live May/June. Other related news is that issue #1 is going to be re-lettered and there appears to be a special edition that will contain issues 1 and 2.

Another call back, I interviewed Lungaro very recently about Isidora #1.

Teaching With Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

Dr. Deb Trusty will be giving a talk titled “Playing in the Past: Reflections from a Classicist on Playing, Streaming, and Teaching with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey” via Zoom on April 7th, 2021 at 7:00 pm PST. Registration is here.

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News Roundup W/E 2020-11-01

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Podcast Appearances

Michele and I appeared on the Chatting with Sherri program and the episode went live this past Thursday.

Earlier today we recorded the newest episode of the H. P. Lovecast Podcast. In this episode we discuss Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe. Both podcasts have been added to the podcast index.

Our upcoming podcast schedule looks like this:

  • 11/25 – HP Lovecast Fragments: Interview with Robert Ottone
  • 11/26 – Scholars from the Edge of Time appearance
  • 12/06 – HP Lovecast: Stories from Wonder and Glory Forever, edited by Nick Mamatas
  • 12/20 – HP Lovecast Fragments: Interview with Nick Mamatas
  • 12/24 – Scholars from the Edge of Time appearance

Call for Proposals

The Call for Presentations for Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is live. The CFP can be read at the StokerCon 2021 website.

The Call for Abstracts for my collection of essays on neo-medievalism is live. The CFP can be found here.

ICYMI

In case you missed them, here is a wrap up of my essays published at my website since going live:

General Neo-Peplum News

Netflix is looking to develop an Assassin’s Creed series. Hopefully they will bring in Kassandra?

Both Looper and The Cinemaholic have write ups on the Blood of Zeus animated series on Netflix.

While IGN reviews season one of Netflix’s Barbarians.

Rest in Peplum

Legendary actor Sir Sean Connery, iconic for bringing pop culture phenomena James Bond to life, passed away earlier this week at the age of 90. Aside from his portraying Bond, Connery starred in numerous peplum films and TV programs:

  • An Age of Kings (1960)
  • Adventure Story (1961)
  • Zardoz (1974, John Boorman, counting film as sword and planet genre)
  • Robin and Marian (1976, Richard Lester)
  • Time Bandits (1981, Terry Gilliam)
  • Sword of the Valiant (1984, Stephen Weeks)
  • The Name of the Rose (1986, Jean-Jacques Annaud)
  • Highlander (1986, Russell Mulcahy)
  • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991, Kevin Reynolds)
  • First Knight (1995, Jerry Zucker)
  • Dragon Heart (1996, Rob Cohen)