Time for your monthly ARC Worlds round-up!
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Everyone is dumping on Netflix but this deep-dive from the Hollywood Reporter is definitely worth a read as to what potentially went wrong.
If someone wants to make me this Death Star trench cake for my birthday, I wouldn’t say no:
Like Brandon Sanderson, I too have a secret I’ve been hiding:
Look over there (again), a three-headed monkey!
This past month has been one of the most exciting ever for fans of a certain pirate-themed point-and-click adventure game series.
It all started nine years ago:
Flash forward to April 1, 2022, when this appeared on Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert’s blog:
Given that April 1 was a Friday this year, everyone spent the weekend in a tizzy. Was this an actual April Fools’ joke? Or should we take Ron at his word that he was indeed making another Monkey Island game?
Then on Monday, April 4, Ron updated his blog again:
And with that the biggest secret other than THE Secret was revealed:
If this is the first you’re learning of this news, then head here to read an interview with Gilbert and RtMI co-lead Dave Grossman.
I’ll leave you with one last tweet before I go read yet another interview about the game:
ARC Worlds Recommends
Fellow NYCer and comics creator Honor Vincent is in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign for her series New Rat City. It’s 2083 and there’s not much left of New York City after years of floods, pests, and infrastructure mismanagement. It’s up to pest controllers like Felicia Shepherd to keep the city habitable, but her job becomes much harder when swarms of unnervingly organized pests start running rampant across the city! Get the whole series in this campaign before it’s published by Scout Comics later this year!
I’m usually pretty in the know on new comics Kickstarters, but one campaign almost passed me by and I’m glad it didn’t, because the story, art, and concept sound amazing! Butterfly House tells the story of an unsuspecting girl who falls victim to a mysterious old house with a secret history a nexus point where two timelines converge. That convergence is literal as the book will have separate stories for each timeline, with each story starting from a different side of the book.
I finished watching the latest Marvel show Moon Knight last night and still can’t get the below track out of my head. In each Every Marvel show, I look for that one scene that is a perfect confluence of story and music, and episode 3’s night sky scene hits the mark.
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This Month on ARC Worlds
Guild of Tokens, Chapters 36-44
Guild of Magic, Chapter 10
As a reminder, weekly Guild of Magic chapters are available for paid Guild members, but I will be unlocking one free chapter each month for everyone and including the link in this section so you won’t have to go hunting through the archive. Also, going forward, you’ll receive the monthly unlocked chapter in its own email on the third Wednesday every month.
I was scheduled to be on a panel as part of QuaranCon2022 to discuss the age-old battle of Book v. Film. Unfortunately due to work commitments, I was unable to participate live. Fortunately, I had prepared my answers ahead of time:o moderator A.M. Justice’s great questions, and you read my contribution to the topic!
We had not one, but two art reveals this month!
The first was a variant cover illustration that will be featured in the upcoming Guild of Magic Kickstarter campaign
The second was Siba Gasser’s illustration of The Den, the setting of an all-new Guild short story, available now for paid subscribers.
Next month I am really aiming to get the next Building a Readership piece and/or my comics piece out into the world. Plus, I’ve sent out interview requests for a new feature that will hopefully bear (musical) fruit. Stay tuned!
Looking for more stuff to read?
The Portal to Fantasy May giveaway is now live through April 15. Almost 100 fantasy stories for your perusal.
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That’s a wrap for this month’s ARC Worlds!