Talk Stephen King: Richard Bachman Pays Tribute To Stephen King

Brian Stubits at CBS sports has a great article about Richard Bachman. No, not that Richard Bachman ! Try the Hockey player. But the Dallas Stars goaltender is taking advantage of his name’s connection to the world of Stephen King. Check out his new mask by artist Dave Gunnarson.

The mask sports a rendition of the Kubrick version of The Shining– including the ghostly image of the two dead girls.

Here is some of Gunnarson's description from his website DaveArt.com.

To make it even more scary we decided to use only one color all over the mask, and it is all painted in a scary mix of calm paint and an uncomfortable feeling all over the mask. It is all created with old school airbrush paint mixed with oil paint tech.

The left side has just an evil sinister feeling, and if you look close into the star you find the same carpet as in the hotel! On the right side we present the rage.

Of course, Stubits asks the question we all immediately want to shout out – HEY! Why not pay homage to a story Richard Bachman wrote? How about: The Running Man, or Thinner . . . wait, I just realized why. Because the helmet is of the MOVIE – and those movie’s were not , uhhhh . . . they were not. . . beautiful. So why The Shining? Probably because it’s just that cool!