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  1. Better than Streaming: Fire and Ice 4K Blu-ray Coming Out On June 30

    Welcome back fellow geeks, Blu-ray collectors and movie buffs!

    If you love the animated works of director Ralph Bakshi (American Pop, The Lord of The Rings) and the artworks of Frank Frazetta (Conan The Barbarian, Vampirella), then you should watch out for their memorable collaboration in ultra high-definition as the 1983 animated movie Fire and Ice will be released on 4K Blu-ray format on June 30, 2026, exclusively via MVDshop.

    Fire and Ice 4K Blu-ray cover has the same classic artwork of the official movie poster.

    With a story co-written by Bakshi and Frazetta and the screenplay done by comic book legends Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas, Fire and Ice is the story of a young warrior named Larn who wants revenge against the evil queen Juliana and her son Nekron. Larn also has the task to rescue their kidnapped princess Teegra. For your interest and reference, watch the classic movie trailer below.

    https://youtu.be/0u64CLs_yb4?si=Ys4OO4sKopU64-98

    Fire and Ice 4K Blu-ray will be in a Steelbook form containing the 4K Blu-ray disc and the Blu-ray disc. For the 4K enthusiasts reading this, the classic animated film has been restored in 4K and the visuals are rendered in native 4K.

    Posted below are the technical details from Fire and Ice’s Blu-ray.com page.

    Video

    Codec: HEVC / H.265

    Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)

    HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10

    Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

    Audio

    English: Dolby Atmos

    English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1

    English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

    English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

    Subtitles – English, English SDH, French, Spanish

    Discs – 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray Disc, Three-disc set (2 BD, 1 CD)

    Packaging – SteelBook

    Playback – 4K Blu-ray: Region free, 2K Blu-ray: Region A

    I personally am interested in replaying Fire and Ice in 4K Blu-ray format. I saw Fire and Ice a few times a very long time ago on a rented video tape and on cable TV (randomly viewed it) but I never actually got to watch it entirely. Fire and Ice 4K Blu-ray is on my list of 4K Blu-ray releases of this year. I can only wonder when it would get offered via Amazon.

    As for Ralph Bakshi, I admire his works on rotoscoped animation and how he visualized his concepts. His work on The Lord of the Rings animated film of 1978 was ambitious and he made the most out of their limited resources. I own a Blu-ray copy of his animated film American Pop and watching rotoscoped animated scenes and characters move in high-definition is enjoyable.

    Fire and Ice, to the best of my memory, has a fantasy concept that reminds me somewhat of Conan The Barbarian (and the sword-and-sandals fantasy elements) and it also the traditional concept of the heroic man who risks his life to save an important woman from the forces of evil. To replay Fire and Ice in 4K is something I desire as a 4K Blu-ray collector and enthusiast of traditional animation.

    Not to be outdone is the vocal cast that has William Ostrander, Maggie Roswell, Steve Sandor, Stephen Mendel and Susan Tyrell. The performances in Fire and Ice were strong.

    Larn and the Princess. (source: IMDB.com) Director Ralph Bakshi (covered in the background) with performers Cynthia Leake as the princess and Randy Norton as Larn during production. (source – IMDB.com) The classic movie poster of Fire and Ice. (source – IMDB.com)

    To order a copy of Fire and Ice 4K Blu-ray now, click https://mvdshop.com/products/fire-and-ice-steelbook-4k-uhd-exclusive

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  2. Comic Legend Gerry Conway Dies Leaving a Lasting Legacy

    The Passing of a Comic Legend
    The comic world mourns the loss of Gerry Conway. He died at age 73 after a brave fight with cancer. Fans and creators alike feel the weight of his absence. Conway shaped both Marvel and DC stories for decades. He co created The Punisher, helped launch Ms Marvel, and built characters like Firestorm and Power Girl....

    #DCComics #GerryConway #MarvelComics #spiderman #ThePunisher

  3. Comic Legend Gerry Conway Dies Leaving a Lasting Legacy

    The Passing of a Comic Legend
    The comic world mourns the loss of Gerry Conway. He died at age 73 after a brave fight with cancer. Fans and creators alike feel the weight of his absence. Conway shaped both Marvel and DC stories for decades. He co created The Punisher, helped launch Ms Marvel, and built characters like Firestorm and Power Girl....

    #DCComics #GerryConway #MarvelComics #spiderman #ThePunisher

  4. Comic Legend Gerry Conway Dies Leaving a Lasting Legacy

    The Passing of a Comic Legend
    The comic world mourns the loss of Gerry Conway. He died at age 73 after a brave fight with cancer. Fans and creators alike feel the weight of his absence. Conway shaped both Marvel and DC stories for decades. He co created The Punisher, helped launch Ms Marvel, and built characters like Firestorm and Power Girl....

    #DCComics #GerryConway #MarvelComics #spiderman #ThePunisher

  5. RIP Gerry Conway, one of the most defining voices in comic book history. He started writing 'The Amazing Spider-Man' at only 19, the same age as Peter Parker, and at 20 he wrote one of the character's most impactful storylines with the death of Gwen Stacy. He co-created the Punisher and Ms. Marvel, he also penned the historic 'Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century' crossover, the first ever between two major comic book publishers, and is widely credited as one of the writers who brought darker, more consequential storytelling to the medium.

    #GerryConway #Comics #ComicBooks #Comic #Marvel #DC #Superman #SpiderMan

  6. In honor of Gerry Conway, here's one of my absolute favorite episodes from the third season of the original Transformers:

    youtu.be/Z3r-Xtuha8s

    #transformers #GerryConway

  7. Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)

    Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention, along with Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). While the band members would work together again on solo projects and in Fairport Convention, this was the group's only studio album.

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/09

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a YouTube link: youtube.com/watch?v=5QmMr1RfdV. It's also on Dailymotion here: dailymotion.com/video/x263bv2

    Happy listening!

    #Fotheringay #SandyDenny #TrevorLucas #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #PatDonaldson #FairportConvention #BritishFolk #FolkRock #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums

  8. Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)

    Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention, along with Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). While the band members would work together again on solo projects and in Fairport Convention, this was the group's only studio album.

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/09

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a YouTube link: youtube.com/watch?v=5QmMr1RfdV. It's also on Dailymotion here: dailymotion.com/video/x263bv2

    Happy listening!

    #Fotheringay #SandyDenny #TrevorLucas #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #PatDonaldson #FairportConvention #BritishFolk #FolkRock #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums

  9. Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)

    Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention, along with Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). While the band members would work together again on solo projects and in Fairport Convention, this was the group's only studio album.

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/09

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a YouTube link: youtube.com/watch?v=5QmMr1RfdV. It's also on Dailymotion here: dailymotion.com/video/x263bv2

    Happy listening!

    #Fotheringay #SandyDenny #TrevorLucas #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #PatDonaldson #FairportConvention #BritishFolk #FolkRock #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums

  10. Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)

    Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Here’s a quick rundown:

    • Point of origin(s): Fotheringay was a British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention (following the release of their 1969 Liege & Leaf, which we looked at nearly a year ago in a SpaceAce Sunday), named after Denny’s song of the same name from the Fairport Convention album What We Did on Our Holidays. The other members were Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). This was their debut album.
    • Tasting notes: Folk rock with some jazzy bits, Sandy Denny’s remarkable voice, wistful longing
    • Standout track: Their cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” – I want that song to last forever. The opener “Nothing More”, the first piano track Denny would write, is also fantastic (as it is on their live album, Essen 1970, released in 2011).
    • Where are they now?/RIP: This is the only album released while the original lineup was together. They disbanded in January 1971 during recording sessions for a second album. While some of this material would later be released in 2008 under the title 2, some was used for Denny’s debut solo album (the 1971 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) and on a Fairport Convention album (the 1972 Rosie), as Conway, Donahue, and Lucas had all joined that band after Fotheringay broke up (Donahue and Lucas from 1972-5, Conway just briefly at the time as a session musician, but then again later from 1998-2022). Denny would go on to have a successful but short solo career (with her former bandmates appearing on some of her albums), and would also briefly rejoin Fairport Convention in 1974-5. She tragically died in 1978 at the age of 31. Lucas then returned to Australia and mainly worked as a producer and film score composer until his death in 1989. In addition to his long stint in Fairport Convention, Conway was also in Pentangle from 1987 until his death just last year (he was married to Pentangle’s singer, Jacqui McShee). Donahue has a rather lengthy CV, working as both a musician (including guitar trio The Hellecasters plus being in The Yardbirds around 2004-5) and producer, at least up until a stroke in 2016 that affected his ability to play guitar. Donaldson was also in a few other bands and worked as a session musician (including for John Cale and Stevie Nicks)[1] at least into the 2010s. Quite a group, this one.
    • Websites: Wikipedia

    Happy listening!

    1. Though a non-Fotheringay/Fairport Convention-related tidbit, a fun find for me in writing this up is Donaldson’s work on Mae McKenna’s Everything That Touches Me (1976). I know this album as McKenna is the mother of Jamie Woon, whose debut LP we’ll see in a future spotlight because I had added it to The List. ↩︎

    #1970s #BritishFolk #FairportConvention #folkRock #Fotheringay #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #music #musicDiscovery #PatDonaldson #SandyDenny #selftitled #TrevorLucas

  11. Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)

    Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Here’s a quick rundown:

    • Point of origin(s): Fotheringay was a British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention (following the release of their 1969 Liege & Leaf, which we looked at nearly a year ago in a SpaceAce Sunday), named after Denny’s song of the same name from the Fairport Convention album What We Did on Our Holidays. The other members were Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). This was their debut album.
    • Tasting notes: Folk rock with some jazzy bits, Sandy Denny’s remarkable voice, wistful longing
    • Standout track: Their cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” – I want that song to last forever. The opener “Nothing More”, the first piano track Denny would write, is also fantastic (as it is on their live album, Essen 1970, released in 2011).
    • Where are they now?/RIP: This is the only album released while the original lineup was together. They disbanded in January 1971 during recording sessions for a second album. While some of this material would later be released in 2008 under the title 2, some was used for Denny’s debut solo album (the 1971 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) and on a Fairport Convention album (the 1972 Rosie), as Conway, Donahue, and Lucas had all joined that band after Fotheringay broke up (Donahue and Lucas from 1972-5, Conway just briefly at the time as a session musician, but then again later from 1998-2022). Denny would go on to have a successful but short solo career (with her former bandmates appearing on some of her albums), and would also briefly rejoin Fairport Convention in 1974-5. She tragically died in 1978 at the age of 31. Lucas then returned to Australia and mainly worked as a producer and film score composer until his death in 1989. In addition to his long stint in Fairport Convention, Conway was also in Pentangle from 1987 until his death just last year (he was married to Pentangle’s singer, Jacqui McShee). Donahue has a rather lengthy CV, working as both a musician (including guitar trio The Hellecasters plus being in The Yardbirds around 2004-5) and producer, at least up until a stroke in 2016 that affected his ability to play guitar. Donaldson was also in a few other bands and worked as a session musician (including for John Cale and Stevie Nicks)[1] at least into the 2010s. Quite a group, this one.
    • Websites: Wikipedia

    Happy listening!

    1. Though a non-Fotheringay/Fairport Convention-related tidbit, a fun find for me in writing this up is Donaldson’s work on Mae McKenna’s Everything That Touches Me (1976). I know this album as McKenna is the mother of Jamie Woon, whose debut LP we’ll see in a future spotlight because I had added it to The List. ↩︎

    #1970s #britishFolk #fairportConvention #folkRock #fotheringay #gerryConway #jerryDonahue #music #musicDiscovery #patDonaldson #sandyDenny #selftitled #trevorLucas

  12. Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)

    Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Here’s a quick rundown:

    • Point of origin(s): Fotheringay was a British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention (following the release of their 1969 Liege & Leaf, which we looked at nearly a year ago in a SpaceAce Sunday), named after Denny’s song of the same name from the Fairport Convention album What We Did on Our Holidays. The other members were Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). This was their debut album.
    • Tasting notes: Folk rock with some jazzy bits, Sandy Denny’s remarkable voice, wistful longing
    • Standout track: Their cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” – I want that song to last forever. The opener “Nothing More”, the first piano track Denny would write, is also fantastic (as it is on their live album, Essen 1970, released in 2011).
    • Where are they now?/RIP: This is the only album released while the original lineup was together. They disbanded in January 1971 during recording sessions for a second album. While some of this material would later be released in 2008 under the title 2, some was used for Denny’s debut solo album (the 1971 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) and on a Fairport Convention album (the 1972 Rosie), as Conway, Donahue, and Lucas had all joined that band after Fotheringay broke up (Donahue and Lucas from 1972-5, Conway just briefly at the time as a session musician, but then again later from 1998-2022). Denny would go on to have a successful but short solo career (with her former bandmates appearing on some of her albums), and would also briefly rejoin Fairport Convention in 1974-5. She tragically died in 1978 at the age of 31. Lucas then returned to Australia and mainly worked as a producer and film score composer until his death in 1989. In addition to his long stint in Fairport Convention, Conway was also in Pentangle from 1987 until his death just last year (he was married to Pentangle’s singer, Jacqui McShee). Donahue has a rather lengthy CV, working as both a musician (including guitar trio The Hellecasters plus being in The Yardbirds around 2004-5) and producer, at least up until a stroke in 2016 that affected his ability to play guitar. Donaldson was also in a few other bands and worked as a session musician (including for John Cale and Stevie Nicks)[1] at least into the 2010s. Quite a group, this one.
    • Websites: Wikipedia

    Happy listening!

    1. Though a non-Fotheringay/Fairport Convention-related tidbit, a fun find for me in writing this up is Donaldson’s work on Mae McKenna’s Everything That Touches Me (1976). I know this album as McKenna is the mother of Jamie Woon, whose debut LP we’ll see in a future spotlight because I had added it to The List. ↩︎

    #1970s #BritishFolk #FairportConvention #folkRock #Fotheringay #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #music #musicDiscovery #PatDonaldson #SandyDenny #selftitled #TrevorLucas

  13. Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)

    Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Here’s a quick rundown:

    • Point of origin(s): Fotheringay was a British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention (following the release of their 1969 Liege & Leaf, which we looked at nearly a year ago in a SpaceAce Sunday), named after Denny’s song of the same name from the Fairport Convention album What We Did on Our Holidays. The other members were Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). This was their debut album.
    • Tasting notes: Folk rock with some jazzy bits, Sandy Denny’s remarkable voice, wistful longing
    • Standout track: Their cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” – I want that song to last forever. The opener “Nothing More”, the first piano track Denny would write, is also fantastic (as it is on their live album, Essen 1970, released in 2011).
    • Where are they now?/RIP: This is the only album released while the original lineup was together. They disbanded in January 1971 during recording sessions for a second album. While some of this material would later be released in 2008 under the title 2, some was used for Denny’s debut solo album (the 1971 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) and on a Fairport Convention album (the 1972 Rosie), as Conway, Donahue, and Lucas had all joined that band after Fotheringay broke up (Donahue and Lucas from 1972-5, Conway just briefly at the time as a session musician, but then again later from 1998-2022). Denny would go on to have a successful but short solo career (with her former bandmates appearing on some of her albums), and would also briefly rejoin Fairport Convention in 1974-5. She tragically died in 1978 at the age of 31. Lucas then returned to Australia and mainly worked as a producer and film score composer until his death in 1989. In addition to his long stint in Fairport Convention, Conway was also in Pentangle from 1987 until his death just last year (he was married to Pentangle’s singer, Jacqui McShee). Donahue has a rather lengthy CV, working as both a musician (including guitar trio The Hellecasters plus being in The Yardbirds around 2004-5) and producer, at least up until a stroke in 2016 that affected his ability to play guitar. Donaldson was also in a few other bands and worked as a session musician (including for John Cale and Stevie Nicks)[1] at least into the 2010s. Quite a group, this one.
    • Websites: Wikipedia

    Happy listening!

    1. Though a non-Fotheringay/Fairport Convention-related tidbit, a fun find for me in writing this up is Donaldson’s work on Mae McKenna’s Everything That Touches Me (1976). I know this album as McKenna is the mother of Jamie Woon, whose debut LP we’ll see in a future spotlight because I had added it to The List. ↩︎

    #1970s #BritishFolk #FairportConvention #folkRock #Fotheringay #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #music #musicDiscovery #PatDonaldson #SandyDenny #selftitled #TrevorLucas

  14. Creepy Archives Vol. 9 Available December 3

    #horror#horrorcomics#comicbooks#Creepy – @DarkHorseComics – #JanStrnad#GerryConway – By: Jan Strnad & Gerry Conway Now available in a value-priced paperback edition, Creepy Archives Volume 9 features the prime cuts fresh from the chopping block of horror, fantasy, and science fiction served up by a sterling set of…

    #horror #ad #Releases #Comics #Creepy #JanStrnad&GerryConway

    horrornerdonline.com/2024/11/c

  15. "That 'SNAP' came from a pure artistic impulse. It was not calculated or part of a master plan to mess with the readers' heads...That said, I'd sure like to believe she was already dead."
    —Gerry Conway, in 'Comic-Creators on Spider-Man' (2004)

    🖼️ 'The Amazing Spider-Man' (1973), by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane
    🔗 apaneladay.com/gwen-stacy-spid

    #SpiderMan #Marvel #GwenStacy #GerryConway #comics

  16. Atari Force #10 (Oct 1984)
    "Home is the Hero"

    #GerryConway (W), #GarciaLopez (A)

    Blackjak, presumed dead, returns. He tells Dart how he was saved from death by the Dark Destroyer. Chris meets Dr. Lucas Orion and learns how the original #AtariForce defeated the Dark Destroyer and founded New Earth.

    #DC #ComicBooks

  17. Atari Force #8 (Aug 1984)
    "Babe's Story"

    #GerryConway , #AndyHelfer (W), #GarciaLopez (A)

    Babe and Hukka, stranded on an unknown planet, make a new friend and help him to defeat his enemies.

    The #AtariForce gains a new member.

    #DC #ComicBooks

  18. The Amazing Spider-Man #134 (July 1974)

    Danger Is a Man Named... Tarantula
    Script: Gerry Conway
    Pencils: Ross Andru
    Cover: John Romita

    During a boat ride in the Hudson River, Spider-Man faces the Tarantula.

    #SpiderMan #ComicBooks #GerryConway #RossAndru #JohnRomita