Recommended reading: Joe Kubert’s Yossel
A book recommendation for International Holocaust Remembrance Day…
A Stack of Hard Cases… and One Ringer
In which your humble columnist takes a look at the latest offerings from Hard Case Crime… and another novel from a licensed property that’s really a lot of fun. Cops, P.I.’s, murderers, con men, and sociopaths galore. Buckle up.
My strange fascination with DC’s Tomahawk
Tom Hawk — Revolutionary War scout, “Indian fighter” and “America’s favorite frontier hero” intrigues the hell out of me. Not that I have a burning urge to buy up some …
Australian Life In The Summertime
Australia is an interesting country. Australians love their country. “I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains.” Their capital, Canberra, normally has one of the best air qualities …
“Save Hitler? That’s not what you do with a time machine!” — SyFy’s 12 Monkeys
Late last year I discovered that Hulu was finally streaming the fourth and final season of SyFy’s 12 Monkeys TV series. In the lag between Christmas and the second half …
What’s wrong with ‘Star Wars’ (and How to Fix It)
Once again, I found myself writing a lengthy response to a post on Facebook, and just before I hit send, I thought “gee, this would be better as a post over at the Junk Shop.” So here we are. This time it’s the Star Wars Saga. The first response posted to that thread was the suggestion that “maybe, just maybe, Star Wars was a really cool idea that got taken way too far.” My reaction to that, and the reason we’ve assembled here today, was that some parts were taken too far, while others were simultaneously not taken far enough.