{"id":12922,"date":"2016-02-24T20:33:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T01:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=12922"},"modified":"2016-02-24T20:33:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T01:33:51","slug":"hard-copy-douglas-rushkoff-to-release-occult-graphic-novel-aleister-adolf-coming-from-dark-horse-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=12922","title":{"rendered":"Hard Copy: Douglas Rushkoff to Release Occult Graphic Novel \u201cAleister &#038; Adolf\u201d Coming from Dark Horse Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This fall, Dark Horse Books is set to publish a perception<a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Aleister-Adolf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-12923\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Aleister-Adolf-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Aleister &amp; Adolf\" width=\"387\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Aleister-Adolf-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Aleister-Adolf-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Aleister-Adolf.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/a>-altering narrative from media maverick Douglas Rushkoff: Aleister &amp; Adolf!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Aleister &amp; Adolf, media theorist and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff weaves a mind-bending tale of iconography and mysticism, set against the backdrop of a battle-torn Europe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This all-new original graphic novel, beautifully rendered by Michael Avon Oeming (The Victories, Powers), views real-world history through a psychedelic occult lens.<\/span><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a story spanning generations and featuring some of the most notable and notorious idealists of the twentieth century, legendary occultist Aleister Crowley develops a powerful and dangerous new weapon to defend the world against Adolf Hitler\u2019s own war machine\u2014spawning an unconventional new form of warfare that is fought not with steel but with symbols and ideas. But these intangible arsenals are much more insidious\u2014and perhaps much more dangerous\u2014than their creators could have ever conceived.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Warren Ellis, author of Gun Machine, Red, Trees, and Transmetropolitan, says Rushkoff is \u201ca cultural treasure and an eccentric author of big, strange ideas, never less than fascinating and always entertaining.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Aleister &amp; Adolf (978-1-50670-104-2) is in stores November 2, 2016. Preorder your copy today at your local comic shop or through these fine retailers:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amazon<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Barnes and Noble<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">IndieBound<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, Dark Horse Books is set to publish a perception-altering narrative from media maverick Douglas Rushkoff: Aleister &amp; Adolf! \u00a0 In Aleister &amp; Adolf, media theorist and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff weaves a mind-bending tale of iconography and mysticism, set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=12922\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2232,4265,100,85,4263,4264,4266,785],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hard-copy","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-aleister-crowley","tag-dark-horse","tag-dark-horse-comics","tag-douglas-rushkoff","tag-michael-avon-oeming","tag-occult","tag-world-war-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12924,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions\/12924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}