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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 1d

peplum comic!

Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 1d

Can I share your Tarzan photo in a Taran group Im a part of?

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 1d

Excited!

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 2d

Apollo Smile soundtrack FTW!

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 2d

I'm all about the Frightners. That's a legit great film, ahead of its time with SFX and concepts. Michael J Fox nails it. Ghost cohorts are hilarious. It's just great!

I think I like Dead Alive in piecemeal - it's got great scenes, but as a whole... I'd just rather fast forward to the good bits.

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 2d

Today's treasure from the Archives: my copy of Grand Theft Auto 4 signed by Mr. Niko Bellic himself, Michael Hollick.

#GTA #GTA4 #GrandTheftAuto #VideoGame #Xbox #Xbox360 #Autograph #Retrogame

Xbox 360 version of GTA4. In black ink it is signed "To Nick, have Fun in LC! Michael Hollick AKA Niko"

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 3d

It's Halloween time!

I only own 2 things that are Ravenloft-related. Survived since I was a teen in the 90s.

#Ravenloft #Horror #DungeonsAndDragons #ADND2E #DND #D&D #AD&D2E #Vampire #TSR #Halloween #Spooky #RPG #TTRPG

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 3d

"No thanks to the plane, many of us are still..."
"Alive."
" We certainly are."
<om nom nom nom>
"Pass me another hunk of co-pilot."

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 4d

Mail goodies!

A copy of the graphic novel collection of short comic stories, "Perfect Crime Party". Got a Nick Mamatas / @nmamatas.bsky.social autograph in this bad boy!

#Comics #Comicbook #IndieComic #SequentialArt #Crime

Cover of Perfect Crime Party. It shoes a dog detective looking over an outline of where a body was. Looking on is a board, a... beaver?, a poodle, and a cat. The cat is guilty because they are holding a bone behind their back they used to bonk the victim.

page 1 of the 21 foot rule, signed by Nick Mamatas.

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 4d

Done and Done!

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 4d

I HAVE PURE MOODS #1!!!

Remember the commercial from the 90s?

Anywho - Enigma FTW \m/

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 5d

For the evening crowd

Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 6d

New article at my website!

Here is my giant write up of going to the Edgar Rice Burroughs dedication in Willcox TX, but also seeing THE THING?. Hope yall give it a read!

nickdiak.com/2025/10/down...

#Tarzan #SwordAndPlanet @edgarriceburroughs.bsky.social #SwordAndSandal #ECOF #OldWest #ERB

Jeffrey Mariotte at his author table. He was the guest of honour.

The Burroughs Family and Frank Puncher unveil the Burroughs monument.

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 5d

@joerlansdale.bsky.social will appreciate! 2 Weekends ago we were in Willcox and visited the Warren Earp grave!

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 5d

Spooky

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 6d

New article at my website!

Here is my giant write up of going to the Edgar Rice Burroughs dedication in Willcox TX, but also seeing THE THING?. Hope yall give it a read!

nickdiak.com/2025/10/down...

#Tarzan #SwordAndPlanet @edgarriceburroughs.bsky.social #SwordAndSandal #ECOF #OldWest #ERB

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 9d

Wait, I blinked - SLG was gone? I had no idea.

I loved the Oddjob series published by them WAAAAAAAY back in the late 90s.

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 9d

Yes. YES. YES!

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 9d

In the early to late 2000s, I had so many web comics I red: Sinfest, Mega Tokyo, PVP, Penny Arcade, Real Life, Ctrl-Alt-Del, many others. And then like sometime in 2010 I stopped reading them all. I had a daily ritual of checking them, and most of them just went... bad.

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 9d

Good afternoon everyone!

Publication news! My review of the 3rd issue of the jungle girl #comic Vanya has been re-printed in the newest issue of the Panthans Journal.

Of course, you can read my review at my website:

nickdiak.com/2025/06/jung...

#JungleGirl #Pulp #JohnCarter #DejahThoris #Tarzan

Panthans #341 - it shows Dejah Thoris holding a sword.

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 11d

OMG! I just looked at the records being released for Record Store Day - Black Friday, and there is a Deee-Lite Vinyl being released!

NEED.

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 11d

Crossing fingers for yall! Excited for the game - it looks fun.

Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 11d

a bunch of badgers are dancing in a field

ALT: a bunch of badgers are dancing in a field

media.tenor.com

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 11d

Today's treasure: Tarzan and the Forest of Stone, signed by Jeffrey Mariotte / @jeffmariotte.bsky.social at the ECOF this past weekend. An honour to Meet Jeffrey in person!

@edgarriceburroughs.bsky.social #Tarzan #WildWest #JungleTale #WeirdWest #SouthWest #ERB #EdgarRiceBurroughs #Book #Autograph

Hardback edition of Tarzan and the Forest of Stone. It depicts Tarzan at the bottom of a canyon, with a black horse behind him.

Bookplate - signed by Jeffrey J Mariotte, Douglas Kilauea, Chris Gardner, and a faux signature by Burroughs.

Title front matter page. It is inscribed "For Nick, at ECOF 2025! Great to meet in person - Jeffrey J Mariotte"

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 12d

Brazil!!!

a man is being tortured by a group of police officers while wearing a gas mask .

ALT: a man is being tortured by a group of police officers while wearing a gas mask .

media.tenor.com

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 13d

Signed this weekend at the ECOF event in Willcox, AZ: Sojan / Under the Warrior Star (by @joerlansdale.bsky.social ) by Christopher Paul Carey, then editor at @paizo.com now at @edgarriceburroughs.bsky.social

I love Under the Warrior Star so much, I *may* have designed a cocktail about it ;)

Book cover of Sojan the Swordsman / under the Warrior Star. The cover shows the heroes of both stories, back to back, with their weapons up.

Front matter page of the book. In blue ink it is signed "Christopher Paul Carey"

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