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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 1h

Inventive brilliance on display right here.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All good stuff, but Wagner and Klein (Nadalman's God!) are peak horror fiction.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That painting has got to be by Robert Maguire. Beautiful.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wonderfully involved and detailed crowd/battle scenes.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah, it’s like really good vanilla ice cream. Ur-basic hero stuff when you want a story where the protagonist is the biggest, tallest, bravest, toughest, smartest guy around. And when he isn’t one of those things, it’s a Major Plot Element. ”That guy’s bigger than Reacher! Can he defeat him?”

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have that story in this glorious old paperback with a ripping HR Van Dongen cover. ravenousmonster.com/wp-content/u...

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So sweet and poignant I can hardly stand it.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Agree. Really enjoyed this issue.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Great stuff! Wish we knew the artists.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Whoa, beware Bluto’s rice but that‘s the Sea Hag there on the left. You know she has bad intentions after receiving all those twisker punches from Popeye.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Features cinema‘s greatest gibbering, mind-blasted victim of the supernatural. “He went for a little walk!” “You should have seen his FACE!”

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yeah, arguably the finest single image of the Twain.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Easily makes the short list of the greatest Conan comics ever. Wonderful Howardian story from Zub and an amazingly sustained artistic tour de force from Horley.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is so apt I can hardly stand it.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wonderfully determined expression on her face.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Love Gil's stuff. Great throughout but his art's vivid sense-of-place makes the Hyborian Age come alive.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dammit. Was this a surprise? I don't recall hearing he was unwell. So prolific and so knowledgeable. A one-man fount of pulp fiction and pulp history. Such a loss.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Shot off a motorcycle going top speed on a straightaway, my (armored) character slid an insane distance along the pavement and might actually have survived if he hadn't passed through A) a field of caltrops, then B) a mine field. It was so over-the-top it stopped the show.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Played it several times, once setting up a track that stretched across my old apartment. Good fun but primarily memorable for my character's absolutely spectacular death.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wonders abound! Cannot wait for this. Congrats, James.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hah-ha! Robert Leslie Bellem! While I doubt any roscoes go "Ka-chow!" in his story I still bet it's an entertaining read.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'd say, "Thrill me." But you just did.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This film contains perhaps the finest examples of gratuitous nudity in cinema history. I’m serious.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don’t even recognize the publisher of this one. Can you tell me the year of release? Late sixties/early seventies maybe?

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you’re gonna go Koontz I don’t think you can do better than Phantoms. Absolutely magnificent monster and a candidate for the most compelling first chapter of all time.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“mud-caked melees and dirty tactics”. Oh yeah. That’s a badass blurb right there.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

That’s a Hickman Cthulhu there on the right isn’t it? Jealous.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“One mosquito.” >slash< “No mosquito.“

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Casual or not, that is beautiful work.

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Anne C. Serling @anneserling.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms- all of them- may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage." ~Rod Serling

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Eegad. I still have dreams/nightmares about the job I had 20 years ago. If I’d been paid twice as much it wouldn’t cover that.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Both Ellis Bond tales are excellent. Re-readable too, with some sweet dialogue, especially between Bond and Moneypenny.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Now that's worth looking forward to.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Man, I REALLY wish you'd put the date of release on these things. I'm getting an early 1940's feel off this one.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Me too. Change of pace like a fresh sea breeze.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Okay, the panic might have popularized it, but I sure got tired of explaining to people that my game didn't involve going down into the sewers with handguns and butcher knives.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy and one really diminutive noggin..."

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Yeah, it's "done" but the editors haven't really gone over the manuscript so there may be more work to be done on it. And yes, this is the book I started back in 1997.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thanks. Wish I could offer a tentative release date, but it's still up in the air.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Wow. Thanks! This announcement comes as something of a surprise to me. Hope the news pleases Conan readers and builds anticipation.

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John C. Hocking @johnhocking.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Whoa, I certainly hope you're onto something. I haven't heard anything about such a project, but you know I'd be delighted. Best not to count on it, but thanks for the eldritch insight, right or wrong.

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