Grant DeArmitt
@grantdearmitt.bsky.social
✒️Staff writer, @popversesays.bsky.social
🔪Horror movies, comics
🗽New Yorker
🔪Horror movies, comics
🗽New Yorker
This is gonna be a HELL YEAH for me. Just backed for the physical copy, so excited to read this
It's time to pledge your fealty to MADAM MCQUILLEN!
MADAM is a full-color 164-page supernatural horror comic that picks away at the false faces we wear and reveals the dark thoughts lurking within.
Feast thine eyes on this KILLER exclusive cover by @cotronis.bsky.social!!
Link below!
MADAM is a full-color 164-page supernatural horror comic that picks away at the false faces we wear and reveals the dark thoughts lurking within.
Feast thine eyes on this KILLER exclusive cover by @cotronis.bsky.social!!
Link below!
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is gonna be a HELL YEAH for me. Just backed for the physical copy, so excited to read this
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It's time to pledge your fealty to MADAM MCQUILLEN!
MADAM is a full-color 164-page supernatural horror comic that picks away at the false faces we wear and reveals the dark thoughts lurking within.
Feast thine eyes on this KILLER exclusive cover by @cotronis.bsky.social!!
Link below!
MADAM is a full-color 164-page supernatural horror comic that picks away at the false faces we wear and reveals the dark thoughts lurking within.
Feast thine eyes on this KILLER exclusive cover by @cotronis.bsky.social!!
Link below!
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It's time to pledge your fealty to MADAM MCQUILLEN!
MADAM is a full-color 164-page supernatural horror comic that picks away at the false faces we wear and reveals the dark thoughts lurking within.
Feast thine eyes on this KILLER exclusive cover by @cotronis.bsky.social!!
Link below!
MADAM is a full-color 164-page supernatural horror comic that picks away at the false faces we wear and reveals the dark thoughts lurking within.
Feast thine eyes on this KILLER exclusive cover by @cotronis.bsky.social!!
Link below!
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IT: Welcome to Derry is almost here! Popverse's own witch @ashleyvrobinson.bsky.social asks Coldest Open Staff Writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social how new fans can crack into the Stephen King cosmology? Ready to prep for Derry?! 👀 Watch the video!
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How to START Reading STEPHEN KING!? | IT: Welcome to Derry Pt 1 #shorts
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October 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
IT: Welcome to Derry is almost here! Popverse's own witch @ashleyvrobinson.bsky.social asks Coldest Open Staff Writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social how new fans can crack into the Stephen King cosmology? Ready to prep for Derry?! 👀 Watch the video!
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#itwelcometoderry
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You can hear me embody this emoji 🤯🤯🤯 chatting with @grantdearmitt.bsky.social
Bonus ALIEN chat with @grantdearmitt.bsky.social on this week's GEEK HISTORY LESSON EXTRA where he recommends even MOAR ALIEN FRANCHISE movies, comics & games for your to check out! Listen now: www.patreon.com/jawiin
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#AlienEarth
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#Alien
#AlienEarth
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October 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
You can hear me embody this emoji 🤯🤯🤯 chatting with @grantdearmitt.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @avantris.bsky.social for including me on this journey into the unknown - an absolutely perfect way to begin Samhain Season 2025
🌜Staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social boarded the Ghostlight Express for the @avantris.bsky.social Crooked Moon 5E adventure - his travelogue is below www.thepopverse.com/gaming-legen...
I began my Halloween under a Crooked Moon, courtesy of the Legends of Avantris
GM'd by Legends of Avantris's own Derek Hudson, I took the train to Druskenvald to play one of the most successful custom D&D 5E campaigns in recent TTRPG history: The Crooked Moon
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October 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Huge thanks to @avantris.bsky.social for including me on this journey into the unknown - an absolutely perfect way to begin Samhain Season 2025
It was an absolute joy to talk one of my favorite franchises with one of my favorite people, @ashleyvrobinson.bsky.social - give it a listen!
Alien: Earth has viewers gripping their television screens. Stories of Ripley & the Xenomorphs seamlessly horror and science fiction. Which is the best? @grantdearmitt.bsky.social joins @ashleyvrobinson.bsky.social to decide! 🎧 Apple Pods: apple.co/2PnOQEH
#GHL
#GeekHistoryLesson
#Alien
#AlienEarth
#GHL
#GeekHistoryLesson
#Alien
#AlienEarth
October 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It was an absolute joy to talk one of my favorite franchises with one of my favorite people, @ashleyvrobinson.bsky.social - give it a listen!
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🥶 In this week's Coldest Open, staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social prepares for The Conjuring: Last Rites by examining the moments that began a franchise www.thepopverse.com/movies-the-c...
James Wan's The Conjuring jumps right to the scares, and there's nothing wrong with that [The Coldest Open]
Are the opening moments of the first film in The Conjuring universe a triumph in character development and narrative introduction? No. Do they make you go, "AGH!"? Yes.
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August 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🥶 In this week's Coldest Open, staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social prepares for The Conjuring: Last Rites by examining the moments that began a franchise www.thepopverse.com/movies-the-c...
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No regrets! Hot Captain Planet is the only global warming I'll accept.
Guys, I regret (???) to inform you that Captain Planet is hot now.
August 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
No regrets! Hot Captain Planet is the only global warming I'll accept.
More movies like this, please
August 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
More movies like this, please
What, as so many in this thread are inquiring, the fuck
I pride myself on my professionalism in comics. I don't talk shit about books I don't enjoy. I am happy when folks get gigs even if I wish I landed them.
So when I say the transphobic bullshit in the new BLOODSHOT #1 comic is disgusting and should have never made it to print. Shameful shit.
So when I say the transphobic bullshit in the new BLOODSHOT #1 comic is disgusting and should have never made it to print. Shameful shit.
August 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What, as so many in this thread are inquiring, the fuck
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🥶 In this week's edition of The Coldest Open, staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social explores the terror of Alien before the xenomorph even appears www.thepopverse.com/movies-alien...
Ridley Scott's Alien opener reminds us there's more to be afraid of than just the xenomorph [The Coldest Open]
Even before the first chestburster scene, there's already a villain onboard the Nostromo, and plenty of warning signs that the cast of Alien aren't going to make it
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August 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🥶 In this week's edition of The Coldest Open, staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social explores the terror of Alien before the xenomorph even appears www.thepopverse.com/movies-alien...
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🥶 In this week's edition of The Coldest Open, staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social gets his hooks into the original #IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer www.thepopverse.com/movies-i-kno...
The original I Know What You Did Last Summer movie turns your slasher expectations into roadkill [The Coldest Open]
As we approach the 30th anniversary of the Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. slasher classic (and a franchise reboot), Popverse is putting it in reverse to examine the OG I Know What You Did...
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July 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🥶 In this week's edition of The Coldest Open, staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social gets his hooks into the original #IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer www.thepopverse.com/movies-i-kno...
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🥶 In the latest edition of The Coldest Open, staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social dives into what makes Wes Craven's #Scream opener the coldest of them all www.thepopverse.com/movies-horro...
How Wes Craven's Scream sets the bar for horror movie openers [The Coldest Open]
The Drew Barrymore-starring opener to 1996's Scream not only kicked off a three-decade franchise; it perfected a piece of filmmaking a century in the works: the cold open
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July 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
🥶 In the latest edition of The Coldest Open, staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social dives into what makes Wes Craven's #Scream opener the coldest of them all www.thepopverse.com/movies-horro...
Just backed this GN from @stupidmatt.bsky.social because it's giving me big Jules Verne vibes with a little bit of Over the Garden Wall? Anyway, very excited to read it www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...
A Journey Into The Abyss: A Science Fantasy Graphic Novel
Two explorers mount a dangerous mission to the stars and awaken a malevolent deity sleeping at the edge of the universe.
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July 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Just backed this GN from @stupidmatt.bsky.social because it's giving me big Jules Verne vibes with a little bit of Over the Garden Wall? Anyway, very excited to read it www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...
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🥶 In this week's Coldest Open, @grantdearmitt.bsky.social wishes the original #M3GAN had found its groove just a bit earlier www.thepopverse.com/movies-m3gan...
M3GAN eventually gets into a groove, but it starts out with no rhythm and not enough murderbot [The Coldest Open]
In honor of M3GAN 2.0 coming to theaters, we take a look at director Gerard Johnstone's first moments into his murderous AI saga
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June 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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🥶 In this week's Coldest Open, staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social opens the proverbial cage door into Danny Boyle's #28DaysLater intro www.thepopverse.com/movies-28-da...
The Coldest Open: How Danny Boyle introduces an all new type of zombie (and an all type of new zombie movie) in 28 Days Later
Even before we meet Cillian Murphy's Jim or get a facefull of zombies that *can actually run,* Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland hook us for what's become the most innovative zombie movie of this ce...
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June 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I've been looking forward to kicking off this column for a long time. Check it out if you love horror!
🥶 Popverse presents The Coldest Open - A new weekly column dedicated the greatest opening sequences in all of #horror, with resident cryptkeeper @grantdearmitt.bsky.social www.thepopverse.com/movies-frida...
The Coldest Open: Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th is un-campy camp horror with a killer score
In the first edition of The Coldest Open, where we judge the most infamous opening scenes of horror history, we're tackling the movie that introduces us to the Voorhees family
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June 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I've been looking forward to kicking off this column for a long time. Check it out if you love horror!
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🕰️ Staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social might know why @mikeflanaganfilm.com put all those #Backtothefuture references in #thelifeofchuck www.thepopverse.com/movies-life-...
I have a hunch why Mike Flanagan worked so much Back to the Future into The Life of Chuck
With the caveat that I do not fully comprehend the brilliance of The Life of Chuck's director Flanagan, or its author, Stephen King, I at least have a theory as to why one scene felt straight out of H...
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June 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🕰️ Staff writer @grantdearmitt.bsky.social might know why @mikeflanaganfilm.com put all those #Backtothefuture references in #thelifeofchuck www.thepopverse.com/movies-life-...
Just backed this one!
Almost 70% funded!
Like fantasy comics? Indie comics? Then I think you’ll like this!
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Like fantasy comics? Indie comics? Then I think you’ll like this!
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Side Questers: Get to Work
A straight-laced warrior begins her partnership with an unpredictable Lizard Man.
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June 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Just backed this one!
Always, always here for Nightlife Noir
Issue 5 is Live! The longest and most ambitious of the series.
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“Almighty Dollar”
The story follows a dollar bill over one night in New York City, with a metafictional wrinkle… every time the money exchanges hands, a new artist takes over the book.
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“Almighty Dollar”
The story follows a dollar bill over one night in New York City, with a metafictional wrinkle… every time the money exchanges hands, a new artist takes over the book.
June 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Always, always here for Nightlife Noir
Always love to see more being done with War of the Worlds - this project by @matthew-hardy.bsky.social looks awesome! www.kickstarter.com/projects/153...
WAR OF THE WORLDS: THUNDER CHILD - THE COMPLETE SAGA
BOOKS ONE, TWO AND THREE. The tragic FINAL stand of the HMS Thunder Child. A tale of Loss, Sacrifice, Death and...Hope?
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June 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Always love to see more being done with War of the Worlds - this project by @matthew-hardy.bsky.social looks awesome! www.kickstarter.com/projects/153...
Just backed! The FPC folks are some dependably great comic bookers, and that monster art from #AlexZapata is to die for.
Only a few hours left to get yours!
Only a few hours left to get yours!
Only 19 HOURS LEFT to get your copy of the goriest, sexiest, grindhouse-iest horror comic around! Grab yourself BLOOD VALKYRIE IN VEGAS for all your bloodthirsty needs! Only $5 digital, $10 physical, plus all kinds of badass rewards! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fug...
Blood Valkyrie in Vegas
A Vegas showgirl is trapped in a Demonic blood slaughter with only one hope for survival in this gore-soaked, grindhouse, horror comic.
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May 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Just backed! The FPC folks are some dependably great comic bookers, and that monster art from #AlexZapata is to die for.
Only a few hours left to get yours!
Only a few hours left to get yours!
Classic slasher energy is strong here, and have loved @gavinguidry.bsky.social 's stuff since Going to the Chapel. Very excited for this!
LAKE YELLOWWOOD SLAUGHTER IS LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!
A 90-page graphic novel love letter by @alejandrobot.com & @gavinguidry.bsky.social to the slasher movies and Italian giallo films that inspired them. 🟡🪓🩸
Click below to help us make Comics Against All Odds! 🐐🪽
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A 90-page graphic novel love letter by @alejandrobot.com & @gavinguidry.bsky.social to the slasher movies and Italian giallo films that inspired them. 🟡🪓🩸
Click below to help us make Comics Against All Odds! 🐐🪽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/goa...
May 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Classic slasher energy is strong here, and have loved @gavinguidry.bsky.social 's stuff since Going to the Chapel. Very excited for this!
Just backed this one! Show some cryptid love
The campaign has passed €1K already!
Thank you everyone who's backed so far! The @limitbreakcomics.bsky.social anthologies are an important part of my life, and as stressful as Kickstarter campaigns are, I can't pass up the chance to make these books real 🖤
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Thank you everyone who's backed so far! The @limitbreakcomics.bsky.social anthologies are an important part of my life, and as stressful as Kickstarter campaigns are, I can't pass up the chance to make these books real 🖤
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Bump in the Night: A Cryptid Comic Anthology
22 comics featuring cryptids in a nature versus society collection
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May 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Just backed this one! Show some cryptid love