Book Review: Lovecraft Country

Book Review: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff Atticus Turner knows about dangerous people. They’re everywhere, though some locations have more concentration of danger than others. If you go traveling, you have to bring a special map to show the safest places to eat and sleep. Of course, between those places the dangerous people could ambush… Continue reading Book Review: Lovecraft Country

Anime Review: Dorohedoro

"I'd like to talk to you about the Baseball Initiative."

Anime Review: Dorohedoro Life is pretty miserable in The Hole. If you’re a normal human, you could be attacked at any time by a sorcerer trying to practice their magic. Multiple people are walking around scarred or deformed for life Yes, the effects of magic are reversed it the sorcerer dies, but they’ve got magic… Continue reading Anime Review: Dorohedoro

Webtoon Review: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Swift Wind and Adora navigate the Whispering Woods.

Webtoon Review: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Princess Glimmer of Bright Moon has a plan. If she and her best friend Bow can find the piece of First Ones technology that he’s detecting in the nearby Whispering Woods, her mother Queen Angella will be so impressed that she will allow Glimmer to take a… Continue reading Webtoon Review: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Anime Review: Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun

Azz, Iruma and Clara demonstrate their love of Black Sabbath.

Anime Review: Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Iruma Suzuki is illegally working aboard a tuna fishing boat when we first meet him, a job arranged by his abusive parents to net them his salary. There’s a storm on, and Iruma is about to be crushed by the cargo when a demon appears. The demon, Sullivan,… Continue reading Anime Review: Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun

Webtoon Review: Disenchantment Seasons 1 &2

Bean, Elfo and Luci after a night on the town.

Webtoon Review: Disenchantment Seasons 1 & 2 created by Matt Groening Princess Tiabeanie (“Bean” to just about everyone) is not at all thrilled about marrying some prince she’s never met to cement her father King Zog’s alliance with another country. She’d much rather be drinking and carousing at the local inn. But marry she must,… Continue reading Webtoon Review: Disenchantment Seasons 1 &2

Comic Strip Review: High Moon: Bullet Holes and Bite Marks

Comic Strip Review: High Moon: Bullet Holes and Bite Marks written by David Gallaher, art by Steve Ellis It is summer 1890, and there have been 100 days since the town of Blest, Texas has seen rain. Drought is bad enough, but cattle have been going missing, and now a little girl as well. The… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: High Moon: Bullet Holes and Bite Marks

Book Review: Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic

Book Review: Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic by Catherine Lundoff Per the author’s introduction, the style of stories in this volume were inspired by her love for the artwork of Edward Gorey and Victorian ghost stories. And so we have a dozen short stories of horror and dark fantasy. “The Mask and the… Continue reading Book Review: Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic

Book Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Book Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice edited by Jack Zipes Most likely, when you saw this title, you immediately thought of the Fantasia sequence with Mickey Mouse, or perhaps the more recent Disney film with Nicolas Cage. But the multiplying of brooms is only one aspect of the tales gathered under the general title of “The… Continue reading Book Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Book Review: MagnifiqueNoir Book One: I Am Magical

Book Review: MagnifiqueNoir Book One: I Am Magical by Briana Lawrence College life can be hard to balance. There’s classes, social life, maybe a part-time (or even full time) job, and of course fighting off monster attacks. Or at least that one applies to gamer girl Bree Williams and her friends in MagnifiqueNoir, a team… Continue reading Book Review: MagnifiqueNoir Book One: I Am Magical

Movie Review: A Smoky Mountain Christmas

Found Family Picture

Movie Review: A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986) directed by Henry Winkler Lorna Davis (Dolly Parton) is a country-western singer who’s spent too long in Hollywood, and just isn’t feeling her music any more, much to the dismay of her agent (Rene Auberjonois) who has her fully booked for months to come. Wanting to reconnect with… Continue reading Movie Review: A Smoky Mountain Christmas