Mackenzie and Walker | October 31, 2013
Hi Nerdspanners! Robert here. Confession time – and this is an odd one from your comics correspondent. I NEVER read comics growing up. Not one. I was strictly a book guy. I’d loved Batman: the Animated Series and the ’90s X-Men Cartoon (and its cousin ’90s Spider-Man), but comics were outside my oeuvre. It wasn’t [...]
Phil Redbeard | September 25, 2013
While the One Ring and all events related to it have made Tolkien world famous, it often seems that his little stories and retellings of old myths were his favorites to write. Both are worth the time it takes to read them, especially if all you know of Tolkien are hobbits, wizards, and elves.
Bill Ostroff | July 16, 2013
The Ningyo is a 1909 period film pilot about cryptozoology. The search for mythological or unproven creatures. A Faustian tale about losing oneself in the process of achieving the filmmaker’s goals. Dr. Marlowe, a paleontologist and professor, finds a piece of a map pointing to the place where the Ningyo, the mythical Japanese creature, could be found. The [...]
Ashley Darling | April 8, 2013
After “sixteen years worth of research, writing, and rewriting,” Sean Pidgeon should have a good book on his hands. But between a strange point-of-view(third person, present tense), lack of a real plot until the last 100 pages, and long, rambling chapters and paragraphs, Pidgeon fails to bring the magic and mystery of King Arthur and the story of one man’s journey to find the truth about him to life.
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