Christmas Special 2024

[@w.adammandelbaum1805]

I got a broken kitchen sink for Xmas. I called my plumber who's an old one, and I asked "R'lyeh working Xmas day?" He told me to "shub it up my niggurath.' i told him "in that case, I'm Dunwich you."

[@andrewrodgers2180]

A Very Merry Christmas to you and your family. I loved seeing your dogs, very cute. Also thanks for all the interesting and cool things you introduce to us from last year. Cheer !!!

[@vikyadh2760]

Have an awesome day today!

[@nedmerrill5705]

You got some presence, too. Have a Merry. Roger _is_ a bit of a wallflower.

[@dqan7372]

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

[@GardnerGoldsmith]

Thank you, Michael! God Bless! Love your cheer and keen interests! BTW, I was delighted to give a special copy of "The Worm Ouroboros" to my niece this Christmas! There are so many delights in the fantasy realm! Take care!

[@darger3]

Merry Everything. Thank you for the brilliant year.

[@JohnAllenRoyce]

Merry Christmas, Michael! 🎄

[@CastellanSpandex]

Nice to see Roger making an effort. 🥳🥳

[@tonygriego6382]

A very Merry Christmas to you

[@LivingDeadEnby]

🎄🎁✨️

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Merry Christmas Michael 🎄

[@GypsyRoSesx]

Merry Christmas Michael. I love your channel because you have such fun taste in books and a very pleasant personality! Happy holidays ✨ Ps your dogs are adorable!

[@DDB168]

Merry Christmas, Buon Natale 🎅

[@alexiskiri9693]

Merry Christmas Michael to you and the Lady of the Manor and, of course, Roger and have a happy New Year. Oh, and I can't forget Rhonda.🎄🎄☃️⛄️🎄❄️☃️⛄️

[@sw3dge-Trevor]

Merry Christmas! 🎄

[@jennatps]

Merry Christmas! So many things to bring joy!❤

[@troytradup]

Merry Christmas, Michael! Thanks for yet another wonderful shout-out and I look forward to hearing what you think about my take on Moreau. 🐐

[@GedDonohoe]

Two fantastic dogs,Roger and Michael, and a cool looking statue just behind Roger.. Excellent video as always. Happy Christmas everyone, enjoy your day.

[@PowerAvocado]

Now I read Pacific Crucible by Ian W. Toll. Great book.

[@GrammaticusBooks]

I absolutely love that cover to the Frankenstein novel! Great stuff and Merry Christmas Michael! (The Book of the New Sun...don't do it!) (Big John Buscema drawing Wonder Woman? That's sounds like a must have!)

[@tonette6592]

Merry Christmas, Rhonda, Zorro, Roger, Mrs. Vaughn, and her mother, and to you, Mike! Family is about to walk in, so I will also catch you later!

[@glockensig]

Merry Christmas, my friend!! Merry Christmas!!

[@chrismarcks5571]

Your dogs are adorable!😊

[@2025Mindfulness]

Yay 🎉❤ I'm working on watching all of Twilight Zone and the original Star Trek.

[@vilstef6988]

Merry Christmas, Michael! Thanks for the great reviews this year!

[@tonette6592]

Came back. Maybe Roger danced in his head. LOVE your tie. Roger's not evil, he's just misunderstood.

[@paulbigbee]

You and Moid over at Death Media Cult talking up Book of the New Sun…added to the 2025 queue! Merry Christmas Michael, and eager to see what comes in the new year with your challenge.

[@peybak]

I was hoping Roger would dance to cheer up the Christmas festivities but I guess we don't always get what we want. Happy Holidays to you and Roger.

[@bigaldoesbooktube1097]

Thanks for some great Christmas content. Merry Christmas to you and the lady of the manor 🎄

[@spartaguswoodall3062]

I'm also currently watching TNG. It's fantastic. My two year old loves it.

[@Yellowblam]

Merry Christmas, Michael.

[@NP-Hunt]

Merry Christmas, Michael. All the best to you and your family 🎄🎁

[@drafferty6756]

Thank you Michael and merry Christmas. This video really helped me today. I hope your having a wonderful holiday.

[@deselby6669]

It is always great to see you MKV..Greetings from a far away foggy Killiney Bay..(curiosity will make you look it up)...Best Wishes to you.. Merry Xmas!

[@steveoh9285]

Thanks Michael for all the great content this past year. Merry Christmas!

[@PeculiarNotions]

Merry Christmas, and thank you for another year of fun videos.

[@StevenEverett7]

Merry Christmas Michael. I just got another present for Christmas when I saw that you had put out a video. Thank you!🎅🎅🎅

[@VHS_138]

Merry Christmas MKV!!

[@leonoldfield9765]

Merry Christmas 🎅🏻

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

Merry Christmas. The Book of the New Sun is incredible. I first read it in the 80s.

[@brianjkinney]

Merry Christmas! I’m going to be doing a reread of Book of the New Sun next year so I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Also, I was on the REH Press site recently and I noticed that they have the Science Fantasy volume, with Almuric, listed as coming soon. I‘ll probably have to pick it up as I believe you’ve recommended it a few times.

[@JamesA-b8p]

You are dapper and delightful! Keep up the excellent content, always a favorite with me! 2025 Best wishes!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Merry Christmas, Michael! You know I don’t think I ever finished Book of the New Sun, but what I read of it was awesome

[@BookBlather]

WOW! That DC versus Marvel compendium looks amazing! Merry Christmas, Mike! Hope you guys had a great one! 🎅

[@tikidino]

Merry Christmas Michael & Roger!!!!! You are the gift which keeps on giving!

[@josephhealy8742]

ugh, doesn't that phrase refer to something unsavory?

[@CliffsDarkGems]

Merry Christmas Michael! 🎅

[@rickcantrell5302]

Book of the New Sun - Definitely four books. And I love all four of the Don Maitz covers. Merry Christmas to you and yours! Sorry to see Roger looking a little stressed! I know the holidays can hit us hard sometimes.

[@JereWilkerson]

Merry Christmas Michael. You have made my day. Thank You.

[@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn]

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Mike! 🎄

[@GenreBooks23]

Merry Christmas!

[@tommonk7651]

Roger looking especially festive this morning.... Book of the New Sun is actually 5 books with Urth of the New Sun....

[@ciberandrei100]

you come to a lot of people in who knows how many countries, thanks for share your like for read. have a merry Christmas

[@jf8559]

Merry Christmas, Michael! 🎄🕯️

[@IsmaelSaeed-ox9ls]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Michael

[@ToddsBookTube91]

Merry Chrismas M. K. V. A great batch of books you showed, The Twilight Zone book looks interesting.

[@angelica351a]

Rhonda! I love that dog

[@josephhealy8742]

The Twilight Zone book was great Michael. I read it some time ago & like you I have all the episodes & read the book along with the episodes just as you propose. Glad I found you btw!

[@JeffBaker-l2v]

Merry Christmas! Hey, it's Rod Sterling's 100th birthday!!!

[@starstriker1881]

I wish i had an extremely generous friend who would gift me an omnibus. Many more merry days to u. By the way, great special appearance of the furry friends too

[@alexiskiri9693]

Hey, all the best stories are Pirate tales.

[@Yesica1993]

I love The Twilight Zone! I am not sure I have seen every single episode. (I almost don't want to, because once you do that... there is no more. The remake doesn't count.) I would love to have the series on DVD. It's one of those shows that I would never get tired of watching.

[@jackreacher433]

Merry Christmas! There was a posthumous collaboration of John Buscema with Gil Kane called "Superman: Blood of My Ancestors". He also did "Just Imagine Stan Lee with John Buscema Creating Superman", in which he was the sole artist. The entire Just Imagine series was essentialy an elseworlds though, and the imagery reflects that.

[@saltyk2795]

Merry happy Christmas and a fantastic new year! Keep it weird and sorcerous.

[@DaleRibbons]

Why am I watching this? Because all the festivities of the day are over, and I want to unwind. I checked out that Twilight Zone book from the library a few years ago. It was a terrific book. Very entertaining. Those Baen books were my proper introduction to Robert E. Howard's works. I had read individual stories in various anthologies, but Bran Mak Mork was the first full Howard book I read. About that second Superman-Spider-Man team up: John Buscema did amazing versions of Superman and Wonder Woman, but I think his rendition of the Parasite is the best version of that character. Great stuff!

[@unstopitable]

Merry Christmas, Mr. Vaughan.

[@raymondkilminster2194]

Merry Christmas Michael .

[@snowysnowyriver]

Michael.....you have Star Trek - Deep Space 9 next!! Lucky you! It is a roller coaster ride once it gets into its stride. 😀 When you have finished with Star Trek, I *highly* recommend Babylon 5, both the TV series and the books. If ST-DS9 can be called good, B5 can be called epic. 😊

[@Kite562reviews]

Happy Holidays to you and your family michael! 😁

[@michelle_flora]

Merry Christmas Michael!! 🎄 (by the way, the severed head on that Howard book looks so much like CAS. Just me? 🤣)

[@redwawst3258]

❤❤❤

[@ellesse3862]

❤

[@wassr1956]

Jack Williamson, a Grandmaster of Sci fi, and some fantasy(and a horror classic, "Darker than you Think") had to say about Clifford D Simak. "Good fantasy - and that includes science fiction - takes off from the known for its flights into the new. Cliff Simak was a master of the art. His known was the rural Midwest that he loved. His new could reach to the ends of space and time, but never beyond reality. Even his cosmic aliens always had half human dimensions that made them believable. I loved him, as so many did, for his unfailing warmth and a wit that was keen but never cruel. I heard from him often during the painful time after his wife's death. His own death touched me deeply

[@gcpoulides]

So glad to see you’re going to read BOTNS, easily my favorite series! These books are insanely layered, for example Wolfe didn’t give people strange names for no reason, they are names of Saints and as you read you should look up the name and read the story of the saint and how it’s relevant, same with animal names are mostly prehistoric animals, and things are not always what it seems, is the tower they live in really a tower?. Alzabo Soup has a phenomenal podcast where they break down BOTNS 2 chapters at a time that I can’t suggest highly enough to get the most out of the books, I recommend waiting til you’re 1/2 way through Shadow of the Torturer before you start listening to avoid any foreshadowing, they’re good with not giving spoilers. Podcast is on Spotify and Apple maybe even KZbin, but again can’t recommend pairing the books with the podcast!!

[@bookMark2967]

Merry Christmas! Maybe the Michael and Roger Christmas variety show can become annual? I grew up on and learned a lot from The Twilight Zone, own several books about it and the great Rod Serling and yet somehow I still haven’t bought that book. I need to get on that!

[@fangs1972]

This was way better than the “Star Wars Christmas Special” (even without Bea Arthur)!

[@chefeddie6164]

You should read Howard's Gent from Bear Creek stories. I have the first edition of the Gent from Bear Creek, one of maybe 14 or so that still exist. 😇

[@JeffMPalermo]

I am also in the middle of a Next Gen rewatch having just purchased the beautiful remastered Blu-ray set. I think I’ve just started season three.

[@DarkKnightDude]

That Twilight Zone book is a perfect gift for Christmas 2024, which marks Rod Serling’s 100th birthday.

[@spencerburke]

Merry Christmas, Michael! (Nothing silly about your show, though...)

[@BenderBrains]

I've been reading one book of the New Sun each year and I just started book 3. It will be good to hear your opinion. Merry Christmas.

[@philologus6577]

Merry Christmas, Michael! Does your reading so much Howard this year mean you're putting aside your Edgar Rice Burroughs read through?

[@MagusMarquillin]

Herry Mappy Christmas! I didn't know Marvel and DC crossed over so many times. Are they allowed to have anything important happen that has barring on their respective continuity (such as it is)? Was it treated as an elseworld/what if story? I've a feeling they'd be nervous about if they could reprint this stuff in perpetuity, but I'm not sure on their terms. Very attractive conceit, but the sort of thing that could turn out to be more publicity gimmick. Either way I still want to read them all! Daredevil has literal horns, what's going on!?

[@cwp1409]

great video, if you like the DC vs Marvel book then you should try the JLA/Avengers cross over.

[@arekkrolak6320]

In Christmas special thr word Christmas which is a noun serves the purpose of adjective and the word special which is adjective serves thr purpose of a noun :)

[@ricke.2205]

Hey, I'm also watching Star Trek TNG! And I'm about halfway through season five. I like how William Shatner and Leonard Nemoy kinda tie together Star Trek with The Twilight Zone.

[@jamesbarberousse8396]

How do you keep Roger from eating the doggies? Just wondering cuz it's Christmas.

[@RP-ve7bl]

play speed is normal, but I think I may have set the 'ear size' as 1.25....merry Xmas et al...

[@mrmicro22]

The first crossover between Marvel and DC was in the late 1970s. So says my memory.

[@rp7390]

Merry Christmas, Michael! Juan from plagued by visions is hitting a rough patch ATM. And I was wondering: would it be possible to do some sort of fund raise?

[@alexiskiri9693]

Roger's not evil, he's just misunderstood and he probably has a hard time picking up chick's. Lighten up on the guy.

[@JeffMPalermo]

was that editing I saw?!?!!??

[@freelivefree7221]

I consider The Book of the New Sun the greatest work of Science Fiction/Fantasy and one of the best work of literature as a whole. While all of Wolfe's work does hold to its quality, I find he rarely wrote anything bad or even mediocre. Though I know people who disagree with me. I actually prefer Solomon Kane to Conan as a character. He always seemed more complex than Conan and I say that as person who thinks the Cimmerian is more complex than a lot of people take credit. DC versus Marvel looks fun. I know Ross Andru from The War that Time Forgot where he drew a lot of dinosaurs. Poorly. I've enjoyed his work on other things but not that. (TWTTF was also really repetitive storywise.)

[@pmcnamee67]

That was my first edition of FRANKENSTEIN, as well.