Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

The final Ultus books are not to be expected until someone like me will make it with either estate’s permission.  Ultus is a historically important character in both Spanish literature and comics whose story appearances haven’t been fully reprinted and completed in book form for decades.  His backstory will be revealed in stark detail, so it may turn out that he was a bureaucrat’s half-Romani (Calo) grandson stranded in the Nigerian/Cameroonian border following his mum and dad’s assassination by pirates. Also in the sequels set after both the future editions of Ultus El Invencible and Ultus El Misterioso, his romance also becomes a lot more nuanced as the story becomes a more Afro-fantasy driven one, in which he will meet a local Cameroonian woman and both will slowly fall in love with each other even in spite of their differences. 

In 2026, a canon bible for Ki-Gor and his ilk will change their shared franchise's history forever.  Ki-Gor is canonically a cyan-eyed Irish blonde who has the surname of Kildare. His hair has been bleached by the sun while his skin is still bronzed in moderation, since the dangers of UV rays have become more understood than before. His birth parents, including his dad from a nouveau riche household, were likely killed by a particularly horrid form of corruption when he was a young boy, thus he was taken in by bandits who trained him to become a badass. His foster dad is now a shaman who lives with the creatures next to his hut.  Helene Carmen is a chubby ginger (mind you, her hair indeed is ginger, but of a more titian sort) who doesn't have the proficiency of a true aviatrix. Nonetheless, she is a badass and will strip off her military clothing when needed, turning into a scantily clothed adventurer.  George Spelling was from a town near Chicago, but has escaped the rel...

The Hanatari or Hanagatari (the best known Emonogatari style, created by Sōji Yamakawa himself) (ハナガタリ) (ハナタリ) is one of the mediums responsible for the relevance of the various kinds of manga and light novels around the world, alongside both the more traditional styles and the text comics which inspired it.  The Hanagatari is rather different from most other Emonogatari styles in which its (more often compressed) artworks bloom in different but equally crazy directions, not unlike various unconventional kinds of picture books for both adults and children, hence the name, which is why it’s long been disguised in many formats, such as a short paperback novel, a text comic epic and etcetera (it’s complicated).  Stories in the Hanagatari style may come into books with as many as 350 pages in the Japanese language and 280 pages in English and other languages. It can still be compatible with both light novels and manga, but will remain its own thing even outside of Japan.

A potential amount of works from around the world will be revised for varying demographics. Some of my potential ideas aren’t ready for underground publishing until 2027. My future first novel Downtrodden Critters and Men is inspired by two Mexican telenovelas loosely based on Hector Malot’s masterpiece San Famille, La Recogida and its more popular 2000s reboot Maria Belen.   A former soldier turned gangster, Felipe Durango is in community service for destroying buildings, which means that younger members of his family are trying to survive growing up to not become like their parents. Then there’s Morton Cullen, a corrupt cop whose highly estranged brother (Julian ‘Cuco’ Cullen) works for the suburban mob nearby. His middle nephew Mark is at work, while Mark’s mother (Molly Burns) is unfortunately jobless and will die soon thereafter. An older nephew (Felix Cullen) is working as a schoolteacher instead.  Mark Cullen’s snotty younger brother (Jonathan Cullen) met up with his fr...