Writing weird stories, strange articles, creative reviews, and learning along the way. Expect updates every Monday or Thursday.
It is fairly clear, to my mind, that when most people live long enough, they have moments in which they wish they could change something in their pasts. It can be something that they did,…
Source: A Trip Through Old Wounds: Patrick Meaney’s House of Demons
“I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.” “So what does that make us?” “Absolutely nothing….” – Dark Helmet and Lone Star, Space Balls As of this writing, everyone and their Force immaculate parent…
I haven’t had the opportunity to see any advanced screenings of Professor Marston & the Wonder Women yet and, as such, I only have the majority of positive advance reviews to go on. Nevertheless, the…
Source: Do You Want to Know My Secret Identity: Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
In Part I of “Back to the Past: Samurai Jack,” I began to look at Genndy Tartakovsky’s final season of his series in terms of its strengths and weaknesses with regards to its overall physical…
So, this past while I’ve been ruminating over Samurai Jack. Originally, I focused on Aku and how ridiculous he is as a villain. However, like I said in my first article on the subject Aku…
Source: Back to the Past: Samurai Jack
It had been advertised for a little while before. The teaser commercial and trailer were fascinating. The Flash had reached another critical story arc mass and Arrow was continuing on. Moreover, in the wake of…
It was a surprise. The Jim Henson Company had been seeking to revisit the world of Thra for quite some time. There were, of course, developments. TokyoPop’s Legends of The Dark Crystal and The Dark…
By the time this article is seen, Wonder Woman will return to Patriarch’s World on the big screen thanks to DC Comics, Warner Brothers, Patty Jenkins, and Gal Gadot. As such, I really wanted to…
A little while ago, I got into a rant about Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume Three: Century, or more specifically its final chapter beat “2009.” I understand the creative…
Source: Fairy Stories for a Wizarding World: J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard
“All countries and all cultures, in the first few centuries that follow their inception, seem to naturally produce their individual supernatural mythologies and webs of folkloric belief. This much we can deduce by looking at…
Source: Mythic World Rewriting: Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’ Providence
