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sLawDog had the honor of representing law and order in the Texas town of Bugscuffle as a Sheriff’s Deputy, where he became notorious for, among other things, the famous Case of the Pink Gorilla Suit. In THE LAWDOG FILES, he chronicles his official encounters with everything from naked bikers, combative eco-warriors, suicidal drunks, respectful methheads, […]
Diversity & Comics points out that something we’ve observed in written science fiction has now hit the comics good and hard: “They’ve taken romance out of comics entirely. You look at all the comic characters, the classic ones– the cis-white males we have to eliminate or replace– every single character you name you can think […]
JUST RELEASED: Astounding Frontiers Magazine Issue #1!
Monday , 17, July 2017 Pulp Revolution, Superversive 1 CommentThe broader pulp and pulp-adjacent scene continues to grow! First there was Cirsova Magazine. Then Puppy of the Month Book Club, Lyonesse, Bryce Beattie’s Story Hack, and PulpRev.com. Now there’s Astounding Frontiers. This opening issue has brought out the big guns with serials from Castalia House regulars Nick Cole and John C. Wright. And if you wanted […]
50 YEARS OF LUPIN III: Daisuke Jigen’s Gravestone
Monday , 17, July 2017 Art, Comics, Movies 2 CommentsI owe you a bullet wound, and I’m going to make sure that debt gets paid. – Daisuke Jigen Nine days after Queen Malta’s assassination at a peace concert, a sniper ends Lupin III’s latest jewel heist with a well-placed shot, sending a bullet into Daisuke Jigen’s leg. The thieves crawl away to safety before […]
Tom Barber (born 1946) is an artist encapsulated within the second half of the 1970s. His first cover painting was for Adrian Cole’s A Bane of Nightmares (1976). He would produce the cover for the 2nd edition of the first book in the series, A Plague of Nightmares (1977), and the second printing of Lord […]
The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge: A Very Good, Very Flawed Novel
Saturday , 15, July 2017 Book Review, Fiction 5 CommentsI’m a big fan of Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series. Following the adventures of Jim DiGriz, intergalactic thief extraordinaire, the books are action-packed from start to finish, inventive, and exceptionally funny. Recently, I finished The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge, chronologically the fifth in the series, but actually the second Harrison completed, in 1970. (Three prequels […]
Author James Desborough has responded to criticism from an unnamed Pulp Revolutionary. It’s a good video and well worth a watch. My take on this…? Looking at the pulps through a “modern” eye as he’s proposing has already been done. Decades ago even. There is nothing revolutionary about such an act. Notice how James grapples […]
My whole life, I’ve had to put up with entertainment’s godawful Southern characters that are nothing like me or anyone else I knew. And sure, most of this would be forgiven with an offhand “bless their heart.” Particularly the actresses that couldn’t do Southern accents to save their lives. But it does get old when […]
Short Reviews – The Quest of Iranon, by H.P. Lovecraft
Friday , 14, July 2017 Uncategorized 3 CommentsThe Quest of Iranon, by H.P. Lovecraft appeared in the March 1939 issue of Weird Tales. It can be found all over the place, but you won’t have to download a pdf if you go here. The Quest of Iranon may be the first old pulp story I’ve read and reviewed for Short Reviews […]
Classic Traveller: Session Report
Thursday , 13, July 2017 Tabletop Games, Traveller, Uncategorized 3 CommentsI you have read my previous columns, I have covered a fair bit of background for my Classic Traveller game. So, how has it played? Pretty good so far. We’ve only had two sessions but, I am excited to see where the next ones will go. Session 1 summary: The first session starts on Ladfaus […]
A new podcast all about Appendix N is here! And I’m really glad for it, too. See… I’ve gotten so much feedback from irate fantasy fans over the past few years insisting that it’s just plain obvious that D&D is warmed over Tolkien pastiche, that it was always like that from the beginning, and that […]
Interstellar con man Rex Nihilo has a price tag on his head. Railroaded into smuggling a shipment of contraband corn to a planet short on food, Rex finds himself on the run from an insidious corporation named Ubiqorp, which reaps obscene profits by keeping the planet dependent on shipments of synthetic rations. When Rex and […]