The dark tower really did manage to capture a surreal picture of the lovecraftian grotesqueness of America and the west in general.
the younger King had his finger on the political pulse of america despite lacking the ideological language for it
The Running Man is astonishingly on-target for 1980, more predictive than most any cyberpunk imo
Absolutely agree. The Stand was muddled with religious allegory but had a kernel of critique on how to rebuild society after all is wiped clean, with the Dark Man recreating pre-existing neoliberalism while the protagonists in Colorado are seemingly embracing a form of primitive communism.
what the fuck happened to him? he got rich and just pulled his finger away i guess?
He got sober. The books he wrote while he was high as a kite in the 70s and 80s are really good. After that… well, good for his mental and physical well being but bad for his writing.
What’s incredible about The Gunslinger is how he weaves together post-apocalyptic horror, high fantasy / Arthurian legend, and a spaghetti western all into one package… and it works.
bold move to portray him being consumed by unnatural fire
a little preview of what he's got to look forward to in hell
would be amazed if someone has not already modded this portrait into amnesia: the dark descent
Dark Tower spoiler
Quick, somebody find an eraser!
Also, only tangentially related, but I just realized how funny it is that the bad guys use Harry Potter gear, especially with how the social context will be completely different for future readers than when King wrote it
Yea pretty wild that between DR DOOM, star wars, and Harry potter DOOM turned out to be the least cartoonishly evil of the three.
Vigo the Carpathian, Sorrow of Moldovia
On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of EVIL!
Jonathan Yeo has the skills to make decent portraits and yet has never done so, and at this point is almost has to be on purpose. It is pretentious, in the actual definition of that word. In that it has pretenses of depth it does not actually have. Why is this shit red on red on red? What does it symbolise? Im sure Jonathan Yeo could make some shit up, but ultimately the answer is it means nothing. And i admire his grift.
Like he paints the face pretty realistically and then he just does a gimmick, and he gets paid millions. "Yea this time I only painted the face the rest is just the sketch."
"Yea this time everything except the face is red."
"Yea this time I only painted half the face."
"Yeah this time I mostly used blue"I have a source with knowledge of the artist and they are convinced they did this in a deliberately fucked up way just to fuck with the royals.
Bro didn't bother mixing colours he went straight for that magenta tube
with your heart.
