Anime Review: So I’m a Spider, So What? Getting reincarnated in another world after an accident or explosion is getting rather commonplace these days. But when a spider hatches out with the memories of a Japanese high school student, and her fellow hatchlings try to eat her, this seems like a bit of an imposition.… Continue reading Anime Review: So I’m a Spider, So What?
Magazine Review: The Masked Detective Spring 1942
Magazine Review: The Masked Detective Spring 1942 The Masked Detective is one of the lesser-known hero pulps, with a dozen quarterly issues between 1940 and 1943. The detective, usually just called “The Mask” in-story, was ace reporter Rex Parker for the New York Comet. He’d been persuaded by his girlfriend, society columnist Winnie Bligh, to… Continue reading Magazine Review: The Masked Detective Spring 1942
Movie Review: The Comancheros
Movie Review: The Comancheros (1961) directed by Michael Curtiz In 1843, gambler and womanizer Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) kills a man in an illegal duel in Louisiana. This ordinarily wouldn’t be a problem, except that the dead man (who’d falsely accused him of cheating at cards to eliminate him as a romantic rival) had a politically… Continue reading Movie Review: The Comancheros
Book Review: The Mutant Weapon | The Pirates of Zan
Book Review: The Mutant Weapon | The Pirates of Zan by Murray Leinster It’s time for another Ace Double, those fun paperbacks that are two books in one, with two covers upside down from each other. In this case it’s two short science fiction novels by Murray Leinster (pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896-1975))… Continue reading Book Review: The Mutant Weapon | The Pirates of Zan
Webtoon Review: Trese
Webtoon Review: Trese Alexandra Trese is a detective of sorts who deals with supernatural cases in the Philippines, primarily operating in the city of Manila. Like her father before her, Alexandra stands between the community of humans and that of paranormal creatures, trying to uphold the “accords” that keep balance. She’s aided by twin bodyguards,… Continue reading Webtoon Review: Trese
Comic Book Review: Codename: Action
Comic Book Review: Codename: Action written by Chris Roberson, art by Jonathan Lau It is 1966, and a young trainee has just passed his final test to become a field agent for the agency. Which agency? You don’t have a need to know, but it’s been protecting America from the shadows since the 1930s. Newly… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Codename: Action
Movie Review: 1917
1917 (2019) dir. Sam Mendes Dateline: April 6, 1917, somewhere on the Western Front in France. Lance Corporal Blake (Dean Charles Chapman) has been chosen for a special mission, and he has picked his friend Lance Corporal Schofield (George MacKay to accompany him. Unfortunately it’s not the supply run Blake was expecting to go on. The… Continue reading Movie Review: 1917
Book Review: Arsene Lupin
Book Review: Arsene Lupin by Maurice LeBlanc & Edgar Jepson This should be a happy time for millionaire Gournay-Martin. Not only is he one of the richest men in France, but his daughter Germaine is finally getting married to the dashing Duke of Charmerace. But there is a cloud in his life. Three years ago,… Continue reading Book Review: Arsene Lupin
Comic Book Review: The Goon #5: Wicked Inclinations
Comic Book Review: The Goon #5: Wicked Inclinations by Eric Powell The Goon (birth name unclear) was once an orphan who worked at a circus, being raised by his strongwoman Aunt Kizzie. When his aunt was killed by the gangster Labrazio, the Goon killed him in revenge, then used the mob boss’ notes to take… Continue reading Comic Book Review: The Goon #5: Wicked Inclinations
Open Thread: Now I am Sixty.
Open Thread: Now I am Sixty Yes, today is sixty circles around the sun for me, which is pretty amazing since I sometimes never thought I’d make it to thirty. My brother came by and treated me to lunch at Brit’s Pub in Minneapolis (we had Cornish pasties) and then we went to a Thai… Continue reading Open Thread: Now I am Sixty.