Turning Pro
When I was first starting to write, back in my teens, I dreamed of turning pro. Now a couple of my students have done it and I could not be prouder.
The Unsung – Christopher Hinz’s Paratwa trilogy
The Unsung examines works of popular culture that are critically acclaimed but not popular, popular but not critically acclaimed, or neither. Today I’m writing about Christopher Hinz’s magnum opus, the Paratwa trilogy!
The Empire of Crime: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
If writers turn terrorist we’ll all be in trouble. Writers such as Richard Condon and Robert Bloch routinely come up with scarier terrorist plots than the ones in real life. …
So what’s so bad about season 3 of Star Trek?
It seems – at least to me – that there is a subset of Star Trek fans who really don’t like the third season of the original series. Why is that?
Comics You Should Own – ‘Uncanny X-Men’ #201-227
Moving on with Chris Claremont’s run on X-Men, let’s take a look at what happens when he decided to rip the team apart!
Review: ‘Meddling Kids’ by Edgar Cantero
The whole phenomenon of the ‘kid detective’ / ‘mystery-solving kid gang’ thing seems to be making a bit of a resurgence in the modern pop-cultural zeitgeist of late. I have a vague feeling that Alex Hirsch’s wonderful ‘Gravity Falls’ may have something to do with it, not to mention the Duffer Brothers’ ‘Stranger Things’… but just in the last couple of weeks, it’s been popping up on my radar with an odd regularity and from a number of different sources. Which brings me to Edgar Cantero’s ‘Meddling Kids’.
Grail Quests
A question that came up several times after last week’s tale of stepping away from OCD collector mania was, “Yes, but clearly you still COLLECT things, right?”
Well… yes and no.