Art takes practice. This shouldn’t surprise people.
One of the things I love about Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is that it acknowledges that being a successful performer takes work. Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is a 1950s …
Month: January 2019
How To Design Your Dragon
There are many movies, TV shows, games, and comics out there that feature dragons, those awesome beasts of mythology and magic. They’re flexible in design, and done right are very, …
Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #10: Revisitations
In which I find things I’d forgotten about or at best half-remembered; books, comics, and my first-ever pulp magazine.
Backroads Bookscouting: Red Planet Edmonds
We journey to the tiny seaside town of Edmonds in search of indie theatre, fine dining, and, of course, books.
Flippin’ Through ‘Previews’ — January 2019
We’re a little late this month, but for once, it’s not Travis’s fault!
Review time! with ‘Kismet, Man of Fate’
Let’s take a look at Kismet, which stars the first Muslim superhero!
A product of its time, but not in a bad way: Skull the Slayer
Usually “a product of time” identifies books (or people) with unsavory qualities such as the antisemitism and racism in H. Rider Haggard’s The People of the Mist. While Skull the …