Author: Greg Hatcher

Prior to his untimely passing in October of 2021, Greg Hatcher was a longtime columnist and author and the primary founder of Atomic Junk Shop; all of the other founding contributors were invited by him. His Author's bio at the time of his death follows. Greg has been writing for one outlet or another since 1992. He was a contributing editor at WITH magazine for over a decade and during that time was a three-time winner of the Higher Goals Award for children's writing; once for fiction and twice for non-fiction. Following that, he did a weekly column for Comic Book Resources as one of the rotating features on the Comics Should Be Good! blog for eleven years, before moving on to this current gig at Atomic Junk Shop. He also teaches writing in the Young Authors classes offered as part of the YMCA's Afterschool Arts Program in west Seattle, for students in the 6th through the 12th grade. A fan of pulp fiction ever since he discovered the Doc Savage paperback reprints from Bantam Books in the 1970s, he has contributed a number of action-adventure stories to various 'new pulp' anthologies in recent years. Likewise a lifelong mystery fan, he has also written Nero Wolfe pastiches for the Wolfe Pack Gazette and several Sherlock Holmes adventures for the Airship 27 CONSULTING DETECTIVE series. He lives in Burien, Washington, with his wife Julie, their cat Magdalene, and ten thousand books and comics.

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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #15: Footnotes and Random Thoughts

By Greg Hatcher October 12, 2019 October 12, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"4

A little of this, a little of that. Fan films, a crowdfunding project we like, Gerry Conway and the Punisher, and the CW’s CRISIS.

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Forgotten Cool: Poring Over the TV Guides

By Greg Hatcher October 5, 2019 October 5, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"17

Reminiscing about what was once my primary source for media information…. and the times it was just SPECTACULARLY WRONG.

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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #14: Crime Time

By Greg Hatcher September 28, 2019 October 13, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"5

Continuing to clean up the review pile. Various tough-guy crime, noir, and mystery things, this week… including, for the very first time ever, a Hard Case title I did not care for.

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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #13: Big Damn Comics Edition

By Greg Hatcher September 7, 2019 September 8, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"10

For some reason I’m getting a lot of really hefty tomes about comics in here lately. Here’s a rundown.

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Do. Or Do Not. There Is No Try.

By Greg Hatcher August 10, 2019 August 10, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"5

You may have noticed I haven’t been around that much lately. This is part of the reason.

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Nerd Wrangles

By Greg Hatcher July 20, 2019 July 20, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"14

We don’t miss the crowds at the San Diego Comic-Con, especially since everything we care about ends up on YouTube within 48 hours. But we miss the Mission Beach barbecues… and the INCREDIBLY NERDY arguments around the campfire.

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Missing the Point

By Greg Hatcher July 13, 2019 July 14, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"45

What does the audience owe the artist? And what does the artist owe them?