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David Avallone

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Writer and stuff. Comics and tv and film. The second-best dressed man in #comics. The Devil doesn't need advocates: advocate for humans, instead. He/him. All the things: https://linktr.ee/DAvallone

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 11h

Monday Newsletter! Movie AND hair stylist recommendations! And what I’m up to… stop by and take a look for free. Subscribe if you feel a feeling.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 2h

My condolences. May her memory be a blessing.

David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 2h

My pleasure!

David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 2h

Of the mysteries… my favorite of the early ones from the 1950s is DEAD GAME.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 2h

I think the first book of the Craghold series — which I think is credited to Edwina Noone — is available on Kindle. I don’t think any others are, but there’s always used book stores and eBay.

His novelization of Beneath the Planet of the Apes is far better than the movie.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 3h

It’s really funny to imagine that immigration officials over a century ago felt bound by what authority they did or didn’t officially have. They’re lawless goons NOW. They were perfect little bureaucratic robots in 1898? THAT is the theory?

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 3h

I laugh at “no one had the authority to do that,” as though immigration staff haven’t overstepped their authority since the dawn of time. It’s a world of people writing things on pieces of paper and no one tracking anything. They had all the authority they needed to do whatever the Hell they wanted.

David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 3h

I think Shakespeare would have agreed.

David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 4h

Michael Avallone. Wrote the Ed Noon mysteries (about 36 novels and a couple of dozen short stories) under his own name. Wrote a lot of tv tie-in stuff/movie novelizations also mostly under his own name.

Under a half dozen pen/house names he wrote gothics and “men’s adventure” stuff.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 4h

That’s expressly what Luciano is talking about, I think. The government will let you rob people blind. You just have to do it the “approved” way.

David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 4h

As a comics writer this is also why I’m out there writing short stories and RPGs and even a little TV when I can get the gig.

David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 4h

It’s first person… of a dizzy teenage girl. And hooo boy is he not up to that. It has the added bonus of coming off creepy as hell.

Of course now I’m wondering if you’ve ever read my dad’s stuff, which was contemporary with Spillane, but had none of his brutality.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 4h

I think this goes for almost every branch of show business. I found it just as true in film as I do in comics.

Find all the ways to make a buck doing what you love — or even what you like just enough to be able to stand eight to twelve hours of doing it day.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 4h

My pleasure. My curiosity got the better of me, but it wasn’t worth it.

The same is true of some later James M. Cain, but for some reason it doesn’t hurt me as much. That said, if you ever get the urge to read The Enchanted Isle… fight that urge. It’s more embarrassing than Playback.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 5h

It’s really depressing. He’s going through the motions and he has nothing to say. I read it years ago and retained very little memory of it, except that it was a sad epilogue to such a great career.

Even sadder, the unfinished pages of Poodle Springs are much more interesting.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 5h

I agree about the Long Goodbye. That stakes out somewhat new territory in the genre, and it is a masterpiece.

I wish I’d taken my father’s advice and not read Playback, though.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 5h

I can’t remember who said it — I think it was Lucky Luciano — but he said something like, “if I’d understood the system, I’d just have applied to the government for a license to steal from people. That’s how the real criminals do it in this country.”

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 5h

I can see that. It’s a beautiful piece.

David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 5h

I had a copy of #1 when it came out.

Gave it to a buddy to read.

That said… if I’d owned it all these years it would be a CGC 0.2.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 6h

I love Chandler but he’s building on their work rather than creating something relatively new.

My dad called Hammett, Chandler and Ross MacDonald “the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.”

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 6h

James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett are as talented — and as important to American literature — as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 6h

This Kickstarter from @thesharkqueen.com is still going, and you should check it out! Short story anthology with a little something from me in it!

David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 10d

Wrote a little something about this new anthology I’m in. Take a look!

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Curiouser and Curiouser 2 Kickstarter! | David Avallone

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 7h

I have a sneaking suspicion that the Chris Rock season of FARGO is based on issue 7 of THE NEW GODS.

David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 11h

Monday Newsletter! Movie AND hair stylist recommendations! And what I’m up to… stop by and take a look for free. Subscribe if you feel a feeling.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 13h

I loved him in Doctor Strange.

David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 13h

“Columbus is a monster, actually” is half a millennium old, as new woke ideas go.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14h

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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