Book Review: The Guns of Sonora | Black Buzzards of Bueno by Ben Smith and Tom West respectively Let’s look at another Ace Double Western, two exciting short novels upside down from each other! The Guns of Sonora takes place in Mexico, on and around the rancho of Don Valentine, a wealthy cattle baron. It’s… Continue reading Book Review: The Guns of Sonora | Black Buzzards of Bueno
Month: March 2026
Comic Strip Review: My Life as an Internet Novel
Comic Strip Review: My Life as an Internet Novel by A. Hyeon & Yu Han-Ryeo Dani Hahm is fourteen years old and looking forward to her first day at Daedam Middle School. Or at least she was. When Dani woke up today, a completely different school uniform was laid out for her. One that looked… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: My Life as an Internet Novel
Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956
Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956 edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. We begin this issue of the classic science fiction magazine with an editorial on “The Science of Psionics.” While the study of psychic phenomena is large discredited in the 21st Century, back in the 1950s it was still considered a serious if… Continue reading Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956
Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider
Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider First, let’s talk about Kamen Rider. It’s a children’s superhero television show that started airing in 1971 in Japan. In it, the evil organization Shocker, founded by surviving Nazis and their collaborators, wants to take over the world. To do so, they used cybernetic and… Continue reading Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #501
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #501 edited by Nicola Cuti After the all-Legion issue #500, the digest-sized Adventure Comics returned to featuring multiple characters. Let’s see what it has to offer! “Codename: Pinkeye!” story by Martin Pasko, art by Joe Staton & Bob Smith, picks up right after the killing of foreign agent Dmitri Dervish.… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #501
Movie Review: Demonia
Movie Review: Demonia (1990) directed by Lucio Fulci In 15th Century Sicily, five nuns are crucified in a chamber of their convent. This is somehow seen by Liza Harris (Meg Register), an archaeology student, during a seance in Seattle in 1990. Her mentor, Canadian archaeologist Professor Paul Evans (Brett Halsey) scoffs at her vision as superstitious… Continue reading Movie Review: Demonia
Book Review: The Book of Mistaikes
Book Review: The Book of Mistaikes by Gyles Brandreth Oh look, it’ s another humour book I picked up in England as a young man! This one has a title that my computer keeps trying to tell me doesn’t exist. As you might guess, this is another collection of goofs, flubs, boners, and other mistakes.… Continue reading Book Review: The Book of Mistaikes
Movie Review: The Avengers (1998)
Movie Review: The Avengers (1998) directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik The Prospero Program, a method of manipulating weather patterns to create an atmospheric shield over the United Kingdom, has been compromised. It is now completely non-functional. The chief suspect is Dr. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman), one of the project scientists. While she was caught on camera… Continue reading Movie Review: The Avengers (1998)
Book Review: Land of the Giants
Book Review: Land of the Giants by Murray Leinster In the near future of the 1980s, the Spindrift, a suborbital plane, is getting ready for takeoff. It will be Flight 703 from Los Angeles to London with an expected duration of 41 minutes. The crew is Captain Steve Burton, pilot; Dan Erickson, co-pilot; and Betty… Continue reading Book Review: Land of the Giants
Movie Review: Joe Kidd
Movie Review: Joe Kidd (1972) directed by John Sturges New Mexico Territory, 1902. The county and town of Sinola. Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood) is in jail. The former bounty hunter poached on reservation land, got drunk and disorderly, and resisted arrest. His cellmate, Naco (Pepe Callahan), taunts Joe by refusing to help him reach breakfast. When… Continue reading Movie Review: Joe Kidd