Mined Out – Bloodstone Temple
Lead Mountain is tapped out. There’s no more gold in them thar hills. How does that happen? I mean, sure there are a few mounted Musketeers and an odd bit or bob that could use some paint, but I’m raring to add to the 15mm fantasy, and that means...
Learning From Everything
By now you’ve all heard about Diversity and Comics. He watches the train wrecks so you don’t have to, but he does it in a way that really helps readers understand WHY current Marvel sucks worse than [insert Razoerfist analogy here]. Now, the man talks about individual comics for...
Not Sure How The Military Guys Do It
Today I took down the Christmas shower curtain and replaced it with the off-season shower curtain. Dad being gone for seven months will do that to a household. No matter how much the little woman steps up her game, there will always be a long list of things around...
More Fantasy Figures
Are these good guys or bad guys? Sometimes it can be hard to tell. They are all from the DemonWorld line of figures, that’s for sure. Wizard, Barbarian Warrior 3, and Barbarian Princess That center figure could be a male or female. You don’t often see that kind...
Warren Abox Paints Again!
The year of our Lord Two Thousand and Seventeen has been one heckuva roller coaster, but things might just settle down around Chateau Abox. Those of you that followed me over to the Castalia House Blog saw my little Three Musketeers Project, which (much to my regret) has yet...
Dragon Awards – The Allied Vote
It’s award time for fans of fantasy and science fiction, and that can mean only one thing – DragonCon ballots are up and ready for completion. The red fiery trophy is the new hotness that all the cool kids want to win, and my on-line social circle has a heavy...
One Down
How do people ever have time to feel poignant? My oldest ventures out tomorrow into the cold, harsh, and uncaring world of higher education, and the non-stop barrage of things that Must Be Done before he flies from the nest has left me no time to pause and ponder...
Backing A Book You Can’t Read
My cover artist, Rapha Pinheiro, launched his crowd funding project for his next comicbook: Salto is a Fantasy Steampunk, written and drawn in France when I was living in Angoulême to study comics. The book tells the story of Nu, an inhabitant of an underground city where everyone is made...
On Romance
“Wait. So you like romance, Dad?” My teen daughter asked this perfectly legitimate question in the middle of house cleaning, interrupting one of my typical soliloquies on the problems of modern storytelling. (If you think the PulpRev-o-Sphere is bad, trying living with one of us. This isn’t an act,...
Gaming Dry Spell Status: Over
It’s been far too long since I’ve been able to sit down at a table and enjoy a little light conversation while pouring over a board covered with little plastic pieces. Over the weekend, thanks to my daughter’s generosity with her time, I managed to break the dry spell...