Ari Bach's Blog, page 12
May 22, 2025
Ludicrously obvious references to older literature? This Stephen King guy writes like me…
Ludicrously obvious references to older literature? This Stephen King guy writes like me…
From The Waste Lands by Stephen King. The book is from 1991 and Eddie was last on Earth in 1987 so…
From The Waste Lands by Stephen King. The book is from 1991 and Eddie was last on Earth in 1987 so “Speed Metal” is entirely correct to his lexicon despite the later identification of those bands as “Thrash Metal,” the latter term developing in the 90s to describe their style as opposed to the post-nwobhm aspects of the genre that the former would come to mean.
These were my intro to cyberpunk btw, then Hackers, then only years later did I even try William…
The beauty of the first six Boris Vallejo illustrated Tek series novels… And the back of each book:
These were my intro to cyberpunk btw, then Hackers, then only years later did I even try William Gibson. Though I did see Johnny Mnemonic around that time.
Also props to Vallejo for the sexiest robot not to be from Hajime Sorayama.
This would be amazing casting. Add stubble and a few years and this person as Roland holy shit. The…
Every time King describes Roland’s eyes this is what I picture.
This would be amazing casting. Add stubble and a few years and this person as Roland holy shit. The ferocity. This face tells me I forgot the face of my father I’d instantly drop dead in shame.
May 21, 2025
From Stephen King’s “The Drawing of the Three”
From Stephen King’s “The Drawing of the Three”
Illustration by Michael Whelan for Stephen King’s “The Gunslinger”
Illustration by Michael Whelan for Stephen King’s “The Gunslinger”
May 20, 2025
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Thomas Moran
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Thomas Moran
Dark Tower: The Gunslinger illustrations by Michael Whelan
Dark Tower: The Gunslinger illustrations by Michael Whelan
King Lear, Act 3: Scene 4, from which “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” takes its name. As seen…
King Lear, Act 3: Scene 4, from which “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” takes its name. As seen in Shakespeare’s First Folio
Stanza 13 from Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning, 1852. As seen in an appendix…
Stanza 13 from Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning, 1852. As seen in an appendix to Stephen King’s Dark Tower which was partly inspired by it.
