Mac Review: Bill And Ted: Face The Music
I recently spent probably a year trying to arrange for some friends of mine to see the first two Bill And Ted movies for the first time. Then, a few …
Category: Science Fiction
Octavia Butlerâs Parables for a Troubled Time
Recently I revisited books by the late, great Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, which are rather apposite reading material for our troubled times
It’s not easy to make the Earth catch fire
Some years back, I finally bought the DVD for 1961’s The Day the Earth Caught Fire. I’d wanted to see this British film ever since reading about it in Bill …
Successfully scratched itches, part 3: Star Hawks
This used to be one of the most tantalizing itches that I wasnât able to scratch for the longest time. I knew about the Star Hawks newspaper strip for decades, but only managed to read it once I got a hold of the gigantic complete collection book.
A comic you should own â well, if you don’t mind the story will never finish: MICRA
The indie B&W boom of the 1980s generated lots of horrible comics, like the several zillion TMNT knockoffs. It also generated some good stuff. MICRA, by Lamar Waldron and Ted …
Flying gorillas weren’t enough?
I assume the Gardner Fox/Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson story “The Flying Gorilla Menace” from Strange Adventures #125 was one of their “cover first, story later” creations. If so, they put far …