Didn’t see THAT coming

I have to admit that I never thought I’d ever see any of our books in that first category.

#1 in Kindle Store > Comics & Graphic Novels > Zombies
#1 in Kindle Store > One hour (33-43 pages) > Comics & Graphic Novels
#1 in Kindle Store > Comics & Graphic Novels > Historical & Literary > Historical Fiction

Then again, The End of the World as We Knew It is an excellent book that we publish in print, and it’s a zombie story of sorts. Mil-zombie romance?


Ruh-roh

Super Bowl Ratings Slip To 8-Year Low As Eagles Score Historic Win

1) 2015: 49.7 – Super Bowl XLIX: New England Patriots vs. Seattle Seahawks (NBC)
2) 2016: 49.0 – Super Bowl 50: Denver Broncos vs. Carolina Panthers (CBS)
3) 2017: 48.8 – Super Bowl LI: New England Patriots vs. Atlanta Falcons (Fox)
4) 2013: 48.1 – Super Bowl XLVII: Baltimore Ravens vs. San Francisco 49ers (CBS)
5) 2011: 47.9 – Super Bowl XLV: Green Bay Packers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (Fox)
6) 2018: 47.4 – Super Bowl LII: New England Patriots vs Philadephia Eagles (NBC)

They can’t blame cord-cutting for this one. What has to be making the NFL execs nervous isn’t just the fact that the game last night was a great, high-scoring one between two big-market teams that went down to the wire. It’s also the fact that the public response to T-Mobile’s heavily converged commercial has been so viciously negative. You’re betting on the wrong horse, gentlemen. Do keep in mind that if everyone believed in equality, there wouldn’t be a Super Bowl in the first place as every team would finish 8-8.

Spacebunny has been entertaining herself today by watching, as she put it, T-Mobile representatives trying mop up the blood on Twitter.


Mailvox: the new narrative

What is this, take #6 on the Nunes Memo?

I’m working in DC, and the tiny pieces of the Swamp I get to see are concerned, as are the residents who work here.  The Media is in full “shovel mode”.  As an example, WTOP radio (which is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting of KSTP fame) on a daily basis has WaPo, USA Today, NBC/ABC/CBS, etc reporters as guests feverishly pushing the Narrative.  The current drill is that Page wasn’t the original target of the Russia investigation, so the Nunes Memo mox nix.  The comedy writes itself.

Yeah, that’s not going to work either. They might as well try just shrieking, “Stop looking at the man behind the curtain!” It’s kind of funny that they haven’t figured out yet that the public now notices a) when they are all singing the same tune and b) collectively change that tune as adroitly and as mindlessly as a school of fish.


Will Caligan’s Comic: results

I am pleased to announce that after more than 400 votes were cast, the following books were chosen to serve as the basis for the graphic novels by the backers.

  1. The Green Knight’s Squire (31.3{f34b2ed14022567e3962d98ceb517f14c2acb643b80147bdb11c1357fe49acc6})
  2. The Stars Came Back (17.2{f34b2ed14022567e3962d98ceb517f14c2acb643b80147bdb11c1357fe49acc6} )

This means that the first 12 issues will be based on the John C. Wright trilogy, which will be known as Saga of the Swan Knight and collected in two graphic novels, Swan Knight’s Son and Swan Knight’s Sword. The next 6 issues will be based on the Rolf Nelson novel and will be collected into a single graphic novel called The Stars Came Back. John and Rolf will be working with Chuck Dixon and me to adapt their works to the graphic format.

Thanks to all the authors who contributed their works to the campaign and thanks to all of the backers, both those who voted and those who didn’t. We’ve put a very good team together to support Will in creating these graphic novels, and we believe the end results are going to be something that everyone involved will be proud to have been a part of.

In other comics-related news, we are very pleased to announce the release of the digital edition of the first Dark Legion Comics book. Rebel Dead Revenge #1: Stonewall’s Arm by Savage Sword of Conan artist Gary Kwapisz is now available on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited.

O Death, where is thy general?

Confederate general Stonewall Jackson has fallen, mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Taken from the battlefield to his deathbed, he is not afraid to die, but Satan has different plans for him.

Playing on the vanity of an aged voodoo priestess, the Devil decides to raise Stonewall from the grave and place the greatest tactical commander of the Civil War at the head of an evil army of angry dead.

The South rises again in REBEL DEAD REVENGE!

Rebel Dead Revenge #1: Stonewall’s Arm $3.99, 43 pages. Be sure to Look Inside at the sample pages because the art is really good.


Super Bowl open thread

Discuss amongst yourselves….

Breaking news from Minnesota: Black Lives Matter activists have chained themselves together to block the light rail lines going to the stadium. This should turn out well for them.

4th Quarter Update: Very smart coaching by Pederson. He’s already burned four minutes on what he clearly intends to be the final drive. He’s going to try to get it down to less than 20 seconds with no New England timeouts before he lets them score. The best way to beat Brady is to keep him off the field.


The stink of sulfur

Also, Episcopals will no longer be referred to as a “church”.

God will no longer be referred to as He or Him in the Episcopal Church Diocese of Washington, D.C., which passed a resolution last week barring all use of masculine pronouns when referring to the Almighty. They will be updating their Book of Common Prayer as a result. According to LifeSiteNews, the resolution called for an end to “gendered language for God” and was passed quickly by delegates to the Diocese’s 123rd Convention.

“If revision of the Book of Common Prayer is authorized, to utilize expansive language for God from the rich sources of feminine, masculine, and non-binary imagery for God found in Scripture and tradition and, when possible, to avoid the use of gendered pronouns for God,” the resolution stated.

“Over the centuries our language and our understanding of God has continued to change and adapt,” the drafters of the resolution stated, emphasizing that masculine pronouns “limit our understanding of God.”

“By expanding our language for God, we will expand our image of God and the nature of God,” they stated.

The correct term is the Episcopal Coven. Which is why one can’t properly categorize this under “Christianity”.


Italian Vespers 2.0

Most Americans are unaware of how violent Italian history is. This reprisal for the brutal murder of a young Italian woman may in time be seen as the first metaphorical ringing of the bells:

The extreme right-wing suspect in a shooting rampage that wounded six African migrants in Italy has demonstrated no remorse for his actions and was “lucid and determined, aware of what he had done,” an Italian law enforcement official said Sunday.

Luca Traini, 28, was being held in jail as police investigate him on multiple counts of attempted murder for Saturday’s shooting rampage in the central Italian city of Macerata, with the aggravating circumstance of “racial hatred.”

Traini was an unsuccessful candidate last year in a local election for the anti-migrant Northern League party and friends have been quoted by ANSA as saying he previously had ties with the neo-fascist Forza Nuova and the CasaPound political parties.

Col. Michele Roberti, the Carabineri commander in Macerata, told Sky TG24 that “it’s likely that he carried out this crazy gesture as a sort of retaliation, a sort of vendetta” after a Nigerian man was arrested in the gruesome slaying of an Italian teenager a few days previously in the same city.

The dismembered remains of Pamela Mastropietro, 18, were found in two suitcases days after she walked away from a drug rehab community. Police arrested the Nigerian suspect after finding the victim’s bloody clothes in his apartment, along with a receipt from a pharmacy where she had bought a syringe and knives that are consistent with the crime.

While the Italian government is every bit as immigrant-crazed as Angela Merkel’s lunatic German government, it lacks any credibility at all and is currently teetering on the edge of collapse and replacement by anything and everything from an independent Venice to Matteo Salvini’s Lega Nord and the anarchic Movimento Cinque Stelle.

It seems that the main thing keeping the ethnic violence at a relatively low level is that the criminal organizations have been profiting greatly from the human trafficking and sex trafficking that is part and parcel of the third-world migration. But once the capos decide that living in an Italy that remains Italian is more important to them than short-term profits, I suspect we will see an abrupt change in policy that will astonish the world.

But Salvini would be far and away the best and most civilized option. He’s smart, dedicated, and committed to Italy for Italians. The status quo is no longer viable.

Italy is heading into a general election on March 4 and the head of the rebranded League party, Matteo Salvini, had capitalized on the teen’s killing in campaign appearances even before the shooting Saturday. Salvini is pledging to deport 150,000 migrants in his first year in office if his party wins control of parliament — drawing sharp rebukes that he is using the migrant crisis to foment xenophobia for political gain.


False flag at the Super Bowl?

The fact that NFL security is in the hands of the woman who botched the Seth Rich murder investigation is not exactly confidence inspiring. On the other hand, perhaps we can hope that Roger Goodell knows something about Hillary Clinton.

Let’s face it, if the sort of people who arrange these false flags ever did decide to put on a show at the Super Bowl, you know they would prefer to do it in Minneapolis or some other flyover city that they couldn’t tell you is in Indiana, Minnesota, or Nebraska. And given how much trouble the Deep State appears to be in, it would be astonishing if they didn’t wave a few false flags in the next month or two in order to “prove” to the American people how the corrupt federal agencies are keeping them safe and how important it is that faith in these massive, unaccountable secret organizations not be undermined.

Seriously, though, what is with all of these Clintonistas in positions of corporate power at entertainment industry companies like Warner Bros, DC Comics, and the NFL?



The secret of Bill Belichick

I’ve been very impressed by Bill Belichick over the years. He is one of the greatest NFL coaches of all time, if not the greatest. But one thing has always confused me about him. He is both a superlative strategist AND a superlative tactician. This is not normal. In fact, this should not even be possible, due to the way that two entirely different types of thought processes are involved.

Now, an intelligent man can certainly perform both functions at an above-average level, but to be better than nearly everyone else at both is so unlikely that it borders on the impossible. However, it turns out that Belichick is not the rare exception after all, that he is merely a great tactician. How, then, has he become known as such a great football strategist as well?

The answer is that there are two Bill Belichicks. Or rather, there is a brilliant strategist who is entirely content to remain in Belichick’s shadow. The two best friends have been a team since their year together at Phillips Exeter Academy, but it is Ernie Adams, not Bill Belichick, who is the literal genius. The interesting thing is that neither the sports media nor most of the Patriots players truly understand the nature of their incredibly effective partnership.

Ernie Adams is a man of mystery with the Patriots. He’s been with Bill Belichick for virtually his entire coaching career, but no one knows exactly what he does, even though he is at every practice and every game. We asked a number of Patriots players and coaches at media availability over the course of Super Bowl week what they know about him.

“I think he’s quality control,” rookie defensive tackle Adam Butler said. “He’s like checks and balances. I feel like he just checks and makes sure everyone is on the same page and is making sure we do things the way we want to.”

“Not much,” offensive lineman Ted Karras said. “He’s a guy that is around every day and does his job.”

Added safety Duron Harmon: “Ernie does a lot for this team. He helps obviously the coaching staff prepare for the games. I can’t give you too much information, but that is just what I would say. He does a good job helping the coaching staff make sure we’re prepared for our weekly matchups. Probably one of the smartest people in the building. He knows probably every rule in the rule book. That shows you how smart he is, how in-tune he is to the game and I think he’s a big part of what we accomplish here.”

Unlike the other two, Harmon knows what’s up. Belichick is the leader and the tactical genius, and Adams is the strategic brain. He is a statistics quant who “helps the coaching staff” by writing the weekly game plans which Belichick then implements. In game development terms, Adams is the designer and Belichick is the producer. That’s how the Patriots are able to completely change their style from week to week. That’s also why it has almost been irrelevant who has been serving as offensive or defensive coordinator over the years, and why very successful OCs and DCs have struggled after leaving New England.

I remember I asked him about a play and he recalled a play from like the early 2000s and the game and the score. I was like, ‘Oh my Gosh.’

Bingo. Thanks to Adams, New England has led the way in the statistical analysis of pro football for nearly 20 years, which is why they always seem to be able to counter even the most effective opposition game plans and make adjustments to defeat it. The Patriots have been racing with intellectual turbo technology while all the other teams are normally aspirated. It’s a bit amusing to note that the sports media made a big deal about how Cleveland’s now-jettisoned management team was going with a quant-heavy approach two years ago when New England has been using it all along.

How do I know this? Well, you see, I have my own connections at Phillips Exeter Academy, both friends and family. And that’s why we’re not likely to see Brady leave New England before he retires, no matter what scenarios the media happens to concoct. Brady, more than anyone, understands how important Adams is to his historic success.

This also may explain why Belichick never talks much about football strategy. First, it’s really not his thing. And second, doing so would almost certainly reveal his unexpected limitations on the subject.