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.

Comics, Greg Hatcher, Obituaries

R.I.P. Len Wein

By Greg Hatcher September 10, 2017 November 12, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"6

We lost one of the greats today.

Greg Hatcher

Finding the On-Ramp

By Greg Hatcher September 3, 2017 September 3, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"29

Is the first installment of a series always the best place to start? Actually, almost never, in my experience.

Greg Hatcher

My Favorite Things: Six, Sixteen, and Today

By Greg Hatcher August 27, 2017 August 27, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"32

Every so often someone sends me one of those pop culture survey-list things that I realize might make for an entertaining column. So I use this space to answer it. In this particular case, it was “favorites.”

Greg Hatcher, Science Fiction, TV

Cops and Robbers and Androids

By Greg Hatcher August 19, 2017 August 19, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"14

One’s a cop, one’s an android. They fight crime. A lot.

Greg Hatcher

Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #4: Welcome Distractions

By Greg Hatcher August 13, 2017 September 17, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"6

Real Life has been a little burdensome lately, so I was glad to find these things to take my mind off it for a little while.

Greg Hatcher

Walking It Back

By Greg Hatcher August 6, 2017 August 6, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"31

Sometimes a storyteller makes a HUGE mistake. Then what? Fix it? Give up? Start over? Stubbornly keep to the misguided course? Here are some famous examples of author’s remorse.

Books, Comics, Greg Hatcher, TV

Legacy Stories and Worthy Heirs

By Greg Hatcher July 30, 2017 July 30, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"16

Fans often grump that today’s pop culture is awash in reboots, remakes, sequels, and continuations… but is that always bad? Here are a few that improved on the original.