Saturday, 22 March 2025
Still Holding My Breath
At the moment -at the moment- the online seems secure but I have to wait another 10 days having put in a counter claim. It's been a nightmare but I still have to wait.
Any support in buying while the books are still there is appreciated in case I need to take legal action.
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Kult Creations: CAPTAIN WYLDE 003 (AKA The Headless Mariner)
The year of Our Lord 1727... The golden age of piracy! Captain Cinnamon Wylde is the scourge of the waters around Dead Man's Straits... Raiding slaver vessels and freeing their cargo! Along with her clockwork hand (only losers have hooks) and her homunculus sidekick, Erasmus!
But she has a deadly rival in the form of Captain Godiva Dunaway who uses black magic and a crew of zombies to rule the seven seas. Dunaway has plans to take Wylde down using an ancient curse and necromancy! She plans to raise the deadly creature known as the Black Reaper from the waves... a headless horror that can not be killed because it is already dead. An epic book-length adventure on the high seas.
Get ready for clockwork sailors, voodoo and seas monsters! It's the most fun you can have with your eye-patch on!
What else do you need to say other than that Gabrielle Noble is back!! Oh...and John A. Short of course. The scripts have nice dialogue and the plot is, as you can guess from the images above, one involving pirates in the Short Universe and all of the quirks and grotesques that live there.
Just read that blurb above and ask yourself where you have seen any comic filled with this type of stuff -it's fun and adventure and it is always a breath of fresh air (especially if I've had baked beans for dinner) when a new Kult book turns up.
In this day and age I have to ask why these books do not sell out and especially as the main characters are all female? Reading this helped relieve some of the current problems and if a book can do that it needs praise and, no, I do not give out spoilers. What I think is absolutely ridiculous is that no comic company has grabbed Short to work for them. That is insane.
As for Noble's art...I became a fan back in the days of Spliffy and, again, the fun that comes across in the art is well worth the cover price -Kult Creations even offers all three Captain Wylde books as a set!
To date I have found no reason to not praise Kult Creations or Short and Noble's work and this current tale of piracy I highly recommend.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
At the moment it is 50-50
Due to a vindictive action taken by someone my online store was deleted. I have managed to get that deletion revoked for at least the next week and after that....
If you have ever thought about buying Black Tower Books or comics now would be the time; if deleted they would no longer be available as it took 20+ years to build up the store with 200+ books. Any money might help with counter suing to re-instate the account if things go bad.
I will keep everyone updated.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Black Tower Comics and Books. Gone.
Ostensibly Black Tower Comics and Books online store is gone. There was a malicious DMCA copyright complaint about a book that has not even been published (!!) and so my account has been closed -over one unpublished book.
So 24 years of daily work and over 200 books are gone. over 200 original publications gone because someone who is not even involved in publishing objected to a draft copy of a technical paper sent to him so that he could make any corrections or add comments. It was malicious -he had not even read the paper- and intentional.
So, John Erasmus, Tom Elmes, Paul Ashley Brown, Richard Anthony Pester and all other contributors: I am sorry and am appealing to the decision but to re-upload and re-promote 200+ books would take a year or more IF my appeal was successful.
The UK is just full of nasty, vindictive "things"