I won’t waste time apologizing for our untoward silence here as of late, because we’ve been doing a lot of the work that really matters, namely finishing up the second East End Irregulars novel! The Dismal Tide went off to the beta readers last weekend (if you’re a member of our mailing list and want […]
Author: Mike DiBaggio
Saturday Scenes: Salad Days
We continue our work on The Dismal Tide, our second novel in the East End Irregulars series, with new scenes being written, edited, and illustrated everyday. For #SaturdayScenes, we’re giving you a sneak peek of the book. Here, Alex and Sebastian test out some upgraded crime-fighting equipment. Sebastian was alone in his garage when Alex […]
The Spiritualist Case Against Capital Punishment
On #AnnotatedTuesdays, we will share a quoted passage from some public domain source that has informed the Ascension Epoch universe, followed by commentary on how we used it. Reading the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the small joys of my life, and it seems a great many people feel the same […]
Join us at Monster Bash!
Tomorrow morning, we’ll be heading to awesomely named town of Mars, PA (just north of Pittsburgh) for Monster Bash, a gathering for fans of classic horror and monster movies. Horror cons are a fun departure from the usual comic convention scene and it’s always exciting to meet a different segment of fandom. Although I don’t […]
Scott Hedlund draws the Martian War!
At the end of the week, Shell and I head to Mars, Pennsylvania for Monster Bash, but we can’t go until we’ve posted all of the commissions we got from Sci-Fi Valley Con last month. That means it’s time for the final commission reveal! And you’d better get ready, because it’s a doozy. This Martian […]
Our interview on Libertopia
Shell and I were interviewed over at Libertopia. We talked about a range of topics, like what it’s like working together as husband and wife and why we release under Creative Commons to why we dislike “message fiction” and how Blue Oyster Cult and 1980s X-Men comics influenced our stories. After you’re done reading the […]
Adieu, Dr. Mirabilis
I just read of Sir Christopher Lee’s passing at the age of 93. Of course, I did not know him personally, but even so I can’t help but feel a bit melancholy. By all accounts, Sir Christopher lead an exciting and successful life and lived to a venerable age, so there is, perhaps, less reason […]
Jared Brown draws Corona
The penultimate entry in our a series of commissioned artwork from the wildly talented artists of Sci-Fi Valley Con is this excellent full-size drawing of the Pittsburgh’s hottest vigilante, Corona, courtesy of Jared Brown of Darkstream Studios. Corona, aka Evangeline Garver, is a thermokinetic teen who first appears in our novel After Dark. Be sure […]
Wild Talents: A Survey of the Paranormal
We’ve already talked about what the inhabitants of our shared universe know (or think they know) about paranormal phenomenon. To reiterate briefly, one-and-a-half centuries of study has left mankind with the ability to quantify and measure certain phenomena, mostly related to Psionic abilities, to formulate some basic explanatory theories, and to catalog some stranger things […]
John Carter, Demigod Warlord of Two Worlds
On #AnnotatedTuesdays, we will share a quoted passage from some public domain source that has informed the Ascension Epoch universe, followed by commentary on how we used it. I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never […]
