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Book Launch: Last War in Albion Volume 2: The Watchmen Bomb
. It is my deep pleasure to announce the publication of Last War in Albion Volume 2: The Watchmen Bomb. Adapted from the acclaimed blog Last War in Albion, a sprawling history of the magical war...
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America a Prophecy 6: From Mothman to Bob Murray (A Study in Appalachian...
Every year I write an essay about the 9/11/2011 installment Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Thus far they’ve included Exegesis, The Devolution of the Funny Pages 1895-2022, The Only Thing That Stops a...
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Chapter Seven: And Engulfed Each Single Thing (Voice of the Fire)
Entertainingly, I had to queue this up before I left for Worldcon so I have absolutely no idea whether I won a Hugo last night or not. Either way, I’ll be publishing Last War in Albion Volume 2: The...
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Chapter 6: Invisible Space Daddies (Flex Mentallo)
Without wanting to sound unduly alarmist, the Patreon has taken a troubling dip, and Penn and I could really use to see it go in the other direction a bit so that it covers our rent without a couple...
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Chapter Five: The First Time You Saw God (The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian...
In case you missed the news, Last War in Albion is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work for “The Cuddled Little Vice,” last year’s book-length Sandman chapter. I would be remiss not to...
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America a Prophecy 5: The Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes
Once again, we return. This is the fifth part of an annual blog series analyzing the worst comic strip ever made. Previous installments include Exegesis, The Devolution of the Funny Pages 1895-2022,...
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Cuddled Little Vice Nominated for a Hugo
This is a shameless vanity post, but if I can’t be shamelessly vain about this then what’s the point of shameless vanity? I’m absolutely delighted to announce that “The Cuddled Little Vice,” the...
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Chapter Four: Some Kind of Divine Manipulatrix (Morrison at Vertigo)
Previously in Last War in Albion: While Alan Moore was writing From Hell and going mad, Grant Morrison was palling around with their toxic best friend making remarkably shitty and cynical superhero...
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I’m pleased to announce the release of my debut spoken word album, Insomnia/While My Guitar Fails to Sleep. Insomnia began as an autobiographical spoken word essay about finding home as memories of...
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Chapter Three: The Ordering and Reordering of Data (From Hell)
CW: This post contains multiple graphic images, including Figure 1834, a photograph of a violently dismembered body. Previously in Last War in Albion: Alan Moore took a big payday cranking out goofy...
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Chapter Two: A Character in the Apocalypse (Morrison and Millar)
Previously in Last War in Albion: Following the collapse of Big Numbers and his marriage, Alan Moore developed a surprising sideline career quickly churning out superhero comics for the shockingly...
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Twat Blast 5: Fish Fingers and Custard
Just kidding we never see her fish fingers The Patreon is still lower than it should be to post this, but it’s Christmas and I ain’t no Grinch. Still, if you enjoy what we do here at Eruditorum Press,...
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In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars Jorge Luis Borges, On Exactitude in Science Everything is ghost. Iain Sinclair,...
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Quick Note on War Between the Land and Sea Reviews
I am doing War Between the Land and Sea reviews, but the Patreon is currently well below the “do them publicly” threshold, and I’m kind of guessing there’s not enough demand for them to change that. If...
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On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the...
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Chapter One: The Way Of It (Alan Moore at Image)
Book Four of Last War in Albion will serialize on the 31st of the month. Previously in The Last War in Albion: With Big Numbers running aground along with the money he’d invested in self-publishing...
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America a Prophecy 5: The Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes
Once again, we return. This is the fifth part of an annual blog series analyzing the worst comic strip ever made. Previous installments include Exegesis, The Devolution of the Funny Pages 1895-2022,...
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Review: Black Flame, by Gretchen Felker Martin (2025)
ngl I’ve been looking forward to this book since the cover reveal last year It’s striking to think that it was just two years ago that Gretchen Felker-Martin was an enfant terrible debut author. Now...
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The Reality War Review
We spent so much time thinking that a better world was possible that we forgot to consider that a worse one was too. It’s always useful to take stock of where you are, so hey. It’s May 31st, 2025. I...
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Wish World Review
Mind Robber vibes intensify Well that was fucking rubbish. It’s entirely possible that next week, and by extension the story at large, won’t be. There are component pieces here that are lovely, after...
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