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    Last year I acquired a copy of the Nintendo Official Guide Book for Super Metroid , released in 1994, and did some kind of shitty scans for it at my local library. They're not the highest quality ever, but they're readable and provide access to an obscure but very interesting part of Metroid's history. The link can be found below: https://mega.nz/folder/HXQylbDC#CkJrf6VwFvxFegxWZ2cwYA   Or alternatively, as I only found out after making this post initially, use these scans uploaded by OZKai on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/sm_ogb_2h-59m/ These scans were uploaded in-between me first scanning the guide and uploading it here, they're way higher quality than mine and also a lot more accessible, so I'd definitely recommend using them instead.   This guide, beyond the obvious of serving as a guide for Super Metroid, is some of the earliest material to establish Samus's backstory and some of the general world-building of Metroid which would bec...

Transformers is a big franchise with a very dedicated fan community who have archived the majority of obscure material across the brand's history. Due to the community being so big and things being split up over the years, it can be difficult for an outsider to know where to look for certain materials. In general, your best friend is TFWiki, which always has detailed and useful write ups of everything in the franchise and very frequently has a direct link to material that's otherwise unavailable, but even that might not guide you to where to find it sometimes. Here's a list of useful links for anybody trying to look through the franchise's media or is digging for something obscure https://tfwikicommunity.wordpress.com/media-archives/ - Used for the majority of media you can't just find with a quick look up, including most Japanese material and a ton of old Western media ranging from convention exclusive comics to prose stories to script readings to books. If you...

Luther Strode In case you were wondering… Warning for intense violence, gore, and nudity Background Luther Strode was an average, nerdy, scrawny high-school kid. Raised by his single mother after his abusive father was sent to prison, he seemed set for an ordinary life pining after his (mutual) crush, Petra. That was until he received a book in the mail, the Hercules Method. While seemingly a normal training book, this book was in reality an ancient scripture on the art of violence, passed down across millennia by it’s original creator and humanity’s first murderer, Cain, to mould whoever followed it into an emissary of brutality, someone who could see the truth - that all humans are just meat, and violence is the purest way. Within days of training with the book, Luther had become much taller and muscular, wielding superhuman strength and agility and even being capable of predicting the actions of others. With some encouragement from his best friend Pete, he went out onto the streets ...