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Kyle Pinion

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · Jun 12

INCOMING TRANSMISSION…THIS IS NOT A TEST… #booksky

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TAKING ROOT book trailer (On Sale Now!) #indiepublishing #horrorbooks

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 3h

They gave it a Halo number and everything!

Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 9h

A fuckin awesome time if you asked 1992 me

Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 12h

#lastfourwatched

Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 13h

On the latter front, I feel like people don’t talk about Steve Martin’s filmography anymore.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 14h

throwing this prompt from Twitter in here. what examples you got?

tweet by @Caol_MacCormaic that reads, uncs of film twitter: what are some movies that are canonical now but were basically unknown when we were coming up? like Come and See or Possession. inversely: what are some movies or filmmakers that seem to have fallen off? (Takashi Miike comes to mind)

Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 15h

Reading this right now and it’s a perfect book for the season.

Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 15h

Today's $2.99 Kindle deal is not to be missed! Karl Edward Wagner's IN A LONELY PLACE (1983) is one of the best modern horror collections, featuring some of this master storyteller's best work. Grab it at a bargain price today online on Kindle worldwide! www.amazon.com/Lonely-Place...

Book cover, IN A LONELY PLACE by Karl Edward Wagner

Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 16h

Also, Puerto Rico is kinda conservative? Their weird antipathy towards PR statehood is just rooted in straight up racism than any political opportunism.

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 17h

“foreign base on US soil” seems like the kind of thing that could play very badly with low-info voters without a whole lot of work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 22h

Same star. Donald Pleasance turns into a boar.

Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 22h

My kinda shit right there

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BILL RYAN @faceyouhate.bsky.social · 23h

Today for @thebulwark.com I take a look at the short fiction of one of the great American genre writers, Charles Beaumont.

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The Hopeless Horror of Charles Beaumont

The writer died before his fortieth birthday—but left behind an influential catalogue of stories and unforgettable Twilight Zone episodes.

www.thebulwark.com

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

Just cut an almost twenty minute video in praise of the Phantasm franchise. Should be up tomorrow if I can get it in gear.

Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

It’s when the drums kick in and totally fail to sync with “Swammmp Thinngg” that I start to lose it every time

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

But I guess somebody realized they either didn’t get permission or they didn’t want to pay residuals to The Troggs so they changed the music for repeats…except they didn’t redo the vocals and did a halfassed job of trying to blend the two together. It’s hilarious. youtu.be/VW4ZlO5p86Y?...

Swamp Thing opening theme 2

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

Since today is a big Swamp Thing day, I can’t let it pass without sharing my favorite piece of trivia. In the 80’s and early 90’s, the character was popular enough to have two movies, a multi-season show and a cartoon. That cartoon’s theme was a ripoff of “Wild Thing” youtu.be/3H5zXh6MVvg?...

Swamp Thing opening theme

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

*louder for the people in the back* The Stand sucks! The rest of the list is pretty good though.

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t ever really ban fear. #StephenKing #BannedBooksWeek

Horror Beat: 4 banned STEPHEN KING books that everyone should read

You can't talk about banned books without including one of the top banned authors in America: Stephen King.

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Joe R. Lansdale @joerlansdale.bsky.social · 1d

I am very proud of this collection

SF Signal @sfsignal.bsky.social · 1d

Last night, I finished THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE, a new collection out this week from @TachyonPub.

What a great collection! Every single story was superb: engaging, skillfully told and a little bit weird. Lansdale is simply a masterful storyteller.

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

I definitely attended two different Vertigo launch press events at SDCC for “the new line” over the last 10-15 years and it sounded a good bit like this - Veitch aside. Really hope it works this time.

Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a sense of “we’ve all danced to this tune a bunch” but I hope it works. A couple of the books I plan to check out when they hit Infinite, if not all of them.

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

I hear you. And while to me Vertigo at its best was literary spins on those pre-established properties, there’s probably little money in a new take on Brother Power The Geek or whatever.

But at the same time, this lineup kinda feels like the sort of thing they always relaunch Vertigo with.

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

Food for thought (it was the House that Alan built after all…really Karen, but I didn’t coin the phrase)

Domino Books @dominocomics.bsky.social · 1d

i dont think vertigo makes sense if youre not relaunching it with a majority of English/Irish talent. Vertigo - British Isles = Image

Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

Right? How’s this any different from Image?

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

As for the rest of the new Vertigo stuff: some of it sounds good. I just wish Vertigo could regain some of that old magic with the core Animal Man/Shade/Swamp Thing/Hellblazer/Doom Patrol lineup. But mayhaps the market can’t bear it anymore. Movie-pitch Vertigo just sounds like everything else.

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

It’s beautiful

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit I spoke too soon. Let’s fucking goooooooo!!’

Popverse @popversesays.bsky.social · 1d

Big big DC Vertigo news from #NYCC2025: "In April 2026, Swamp Thing 1989, issues 1-4, will publish unpublished issues from Rick Veitch... that featured where Swamp Thing went back in time to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ."

More here: www.thepopverse.com/comics-nycc-...

DC is unveiling the Vertigo relaunch's first wave of ongoing comics at NYCC 2025 - follow along live

Follow along live for DC Comics' DC Vertigo - We're Back panel at NYCC 2025!

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