Heavy Metal : Den ( A quick break from the usual routine.)

I'm not even gonna write a summary or anything, I could but with only four hours sleep in two days, I'm sure you can forgive me for having not done so. Now this is just a little side-track from what I have planned for my next blog, I'm sure you've seen this before, but it's always fun to watch regardless. Please enjoy.

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HeroQuest

Well, it's been a while since I did one of these articles, but today was one of those drudgingly boring sorts of days,ripe for blogging. So out of that dreadful, painfully awkward boredom, I present to you a game I was rather fond of all those years ago; I give you HeroQuest! I used to love this game! What am I saying,I still love this game. It's easy, it's challenging and most of all, it's still a lot of fun to play. In fact,it's one of the simplest board games of this type I've ever played. Though I do believe it to be more of a hybrid of both fantasy and sword and sorcery,the distinction isn't clear,nor is it all that important in this game. On one hand you have orcs and elves,and on the other you have a barbarian and an evil sorcerer, who to me appears very similar to Skeletor from Masters of the Universe. I was lucky to find myself a copy of this game at an outlet store back in the early 90's, still brand new in the shrink-wrap. I'm glad I...

Fire & Ice

Fire & Ice is by far one of the best animated features in the sword and sorcery world. It's the kinda movie you can watch countless times and it's still just as good after the first time seeing it. It has the perfect mix of creatures and primitive cultures to make it as fantastic and otherworldly as possible,while lacking the infamous "cornball moments" most noticeable within the genre. Initially Fire & Ice was a collaboration between Roy Thomas ( who wrote the better part of the Conan series for Marvel comics) Frank Frazetta and of course Ralph Bakshi. The film used live actors who we're animated through rotoscoping,which became popular long before digital animation was made widely available. Though rotoscoping was heavily used in Bakshi's other films,never before had it been utilized with such spectacular detail as with Fire & Ice. Lunch! I fell in love with this movie several years back and hadn't seen it up till that point;in fac...

One of the weirder novels to come out of my collection....

So I was in a goodwill not too long ago,searching for anything that might be remotely interesting in the books section;when I came across an old paperback bearing an unmistakable cover done by Ken Kelly,one of my favorite artists in the S&S (sword and sorcery) genre. What I found strange about the cover was a muscular Conan like figure,wielding both a sword and battleaxe,except this barbarian had horns on his head,pointed ears and eyes like a reptile of some sort. "This isn't Conan!" I said to myself. But yet, I recognized Ken Kelly's artwork anywhere,he was after all the go-to guy in Conan artistry,after Frazetta of course. The book's title wasn't up to par with Conan either,I mean The Alien? Seriously? But it was only fifty cents,so I caved in and bought it for the measly asking price. Once I got it home,I sat it aside,where it collected dust for the next two months. I figured,I'd probably never read it,but it's got a nice cover by one of my ...

The Black River

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