If you read my recent tutorial on creating pulp sci-fi art in Photoshop, you’ll remember that I mentioned that adding “flavor” text, like the price and titles of featured stories, is a great way to breathe life into the magazine cover. I just discovered a great resource for flavor text at a site called “Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual.”
Thrilling Tales is a sort of modern-day choose-your-own-adventure novel by Bradley W. Schenck. It’s Cornelius Zappencackler’s Derange-O-Lab Pulp Sci Fi Title-O-Tron! (What a great name!)
The Title-O-Trom randomly generates authentic-sounding titles that you’re free to use in your own work. There’s even a smaller version that you can add to your own site, which you can download here.
With titles like “The Mongoose Riders of Callisto” and “Abandoned in the Monolith of the Brain Eaters”, you’ll never find yourself without great flavor text again!