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[manicmadhouse]

Phantom of the Opera by David Hartman. We need a gothic horror film with this look and on par with Bram Stoker’s Dracula

[maxsindiecomics]

[PREVIEW] Kraken TP (September 30, 2025)

writer: Shannon Eric Denton | artist and cover artist: David Hartman | publishing company: Titan Comics

synopsis: From the minds of Oscar-nominated Shannon Eric Denton and Emmy-nominated David Hartman comes an exciting story of a hybrid monster-man and his mission to stop the Nazis from resurrecting ancient horrors upon the world.

After disappearing for three years, esteemed adventurer Kraken returns to reality in search of allies to stop an evil sorceress from unleashing a horde of eldritch monsters on the world. Armed with a pistol and supernatural tentacles, the Kraken is loose!

Set in a reimagined 1930s backdrop and filled with occult powers, hidden artefacts and sentient talking skulls, Kraken fills your appetite for the supernatural unlike any other.

[maimonidiva]

The Gemara here uses ritual purity and impurity as a distinguishing mechanism between the high priesthood itself and the priest anointed for war in a way that we can read as commentary on service of Hashem in general: the priest anointed for war takes precedence when it comes to saving his life, the deputy high priest takes precedence when it comes to preserving his purity, that is, in a situation of life or death, service of Hashem may be not entirely for its own sake but rather have in part ulterior motives, when that is not the situation, however, service of Hashem is to be for its own sake.

We can parallel this reading to the Rambam's letter on martyrdom: responding to persecutions of the Moroccan Jewish communities, a rabbi of the time issued a ruling that martyrdom is preferable to forced conversion and that after forced conversion, each fulfilled mitzvah is a sin, claims which the Rambam rejects entirely:

Anyone who cannot leave because of his attachments, or because of the dangers of a sea voyage, and stays where he is, must look upon himself as one who profanes God's name, not exactly willingly, but almost so. At the same time he must bear in mind that if he fulfills a precept, God will reward him doubly, because he acted so for God only, and not to show off or be accepted as an observant individual.

R. Moshe ben Maimon, Letter on Martyrdom, in: Epistles of Maimonides: Crisis and Leadership by Abraham Halkin and David Hartman

R. David Hartman, in his commentary, cites R. Hayyim Soloveitchik, who was of the opinion that Maimonides argued so harshly against the rabbi because he knew he was, strictly halakhically, in the wrong, that, in fact, martyrdom would be preferable over publicly profaning the name of Hashem. Read in this way, the Rambam's predicament in what to advise begins to resemble our reading of the sugya, the priest anointed for standing, then, not for the survival of an individual, but the community as a whole:

As a halakhic leader, Maimonides sought a way of sustaining the community's live interest in teshuvah despite the tragic conditions it was compelled to endure. He taught them to live in a state of perpetual conflict so as to sustain the tension between their public and private selves. In public, affirm the faith formula of those who claim that Judaism has been superseded, but in private and in your hearts, know that you are eternally bound by the mitzvot. Do not fall victims to an all-or-nothing attitude in order to escape the trying task of living with dissonance. [...]

His audience did not consist of leisurely intellectuals free to pursue the virtues of self-transcending love of God, but rather of an oppressed, worry-laden community whose most elementary human needs remained unsatisfied. Rather than preach to them about the virtues of selfless devotion to God, he struggled to buttress their self-image so they could withstand the disintegrating effects of the social reality in which they were compelled to live.

R. David Hartman, Commentary on the Letter on Martyrdom, in: Epistles of Maimonides: Crisis and Leadership by Abraham Halkin and David Hartman

As in our sugya, this does not mean that this form of serving Hashem is proper in itself, but rather that it can be a last resort when the proper form of serving Hashem is impossible at the moment, to serve incompletely, not for its own sake, in order to be able to serve for its own sake again in the future, much like we find in the laws of Shabbat – it is preferable to desecrate one in order to be able to observe many more.

[kwebtv]

Season 1 Episode 2

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors - What's the Price of a Pair of Eyes - NBC - October 5, 1969

Medical Drama

Running Time: 60 minutes

Written by Sandy Stern

Produced by Joel Rogosin

Directed by Jeffrey Hayden

Stars:

E. G. Marshall as Dr. David Craig

David Hartman as Dr. Paul Hunter

John Saxon as Dr. Theodore "Ted" Stuart

Jason Evers as Dr. Ralph Simpson

Tisha Sterling as Casey Woods

Berkeley Harris as Dr. Coulter

Chris Hansen as Ken Simpson

David Sachs as Dr. Sid Feld

Walter Barnes as Zach Garvis

Norman Kaplan as Norm Kaplan

Anne Bellamy as Nurse Sawchuck

Dennis McCarthy as Arnie

Penny Gaston as Girl

[harrisonarchive]

From Good Morning America, October 1981; interviewed by David Hartman.

George: “And… I decided to become a gardener, actually.” Q: “You really love it, don’t you?” George: “The garden?” Q: “The gardening, yeah.” George: “I — I do, yeah. I like the garden. It’s sort of, um… well, you know, like Chauncey Gardiner in the film with Peter Sellers, ‘Being There.’ It’s true, you know, you — in the garden, you see all the seasons come and go, and whatever you do can affect it all, but at the same time, the flowers don’t answer you back. (Laughs) Don’t give you no trouble.” - Good Morning America, October 1981

[johnny-dynamo]

Night Of The Creeps by David Hartman

[smashpages]

Out this week: Spectors (Titan Comics, $17.99): 

Shannon Eric Denton and David Hartman jump between the 1930s and the modern day to tell the story of supernatural investigators Reginald and Debby, who work across generations to stop a cult from resurrecting ancient evils. When they discover the cult’s experiments date back to Reginald’s own father, a decades-long personal mystery comes into focus.

See what else is coming to your local comic shop this week.

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