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Back to the Future…with a Warhammer – Aaron Dembski-Bowden Guest Blog

On July 30 By Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Aaron Dembski-Bowden is back!

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Sandman Meditations – The Wake

On July 27

Escaping into Fiction – Sharon Shinn Guest Blog

On August 15
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Deadpool – Badass of the Week

On August 7
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Gareth Edwards Interview | Monsters

On August 8 By Elena Nola

This guy directed Star Wars Rogue One!

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The Goonies – Troy’s Bucket (and Why I Ain’t Riding Up It)

On August 5
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Cut For Your Pleasure – LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL

On July 31
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12 Time-Twisted Crime Films

On July 24

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Back to the Future…with a Warhammer – Aaron Dembski-Bowden Guest Blog

On July 30 By Aaron Dembski-Bowden In (special) Guest Blogs, Books & Comics, Gaming

Aaron Dembski-Bowden is back!

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Sandman Meditations – The Wake

On July 27 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Matthew Cheney is reaching the end in these collected essays on Neil Gaiman’s epic Sandman run with The Wake.

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Eddard Stark Chapter 33

On November 30 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on.  Today they react to Chapter 33: Stupid Ned …

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The Love (stories) of our Lives?

On November 28 By Jay In Book Reviews

Synergy is back! This is the second installment of the monthly feature. The basic gist is that one of our contributors offers a single question for our other contributors to give answer to  mixed in with …

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Escaping into Fiction – Sharon Shinn Guest Blog

On August 15 By Sharon Shinn In (special) Guest Blogs

When I was having an interesting time of it in college, I was seized with the notion that I was reading an incredibly long and detailed story about a woman named Sharon Shinn, and at …

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Gareth Edwards Interview | Monsters

On August 8 By Elena Nola In Interviews, Movies & TV

This guy directed Star Wars Rogue One!

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Deadpool – Badass of the Week

On August 7 By Ben Thompson In (special) Guest Blogs

Ben Thompson chronicles the crazy badass history and highlights of the Merc

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The Goonies – Troy’s Bucket (and Why I Ain’t Riding Up It)

On August 5 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

If you’re anything like me, you’re broke. Not quite selling-your-plasma-for-lunch-money broke.  But definitely dodging-bill-collectors-and-praying-to-a-God-you-don’t-believe-in-that-your-car-won’t-break-down-again broke.

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DC: THE NEW FRONTIER… Stripp’d

On August 4 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

0. Looking Back in order to Move Forward One of the more interesting developments in superhero comics has been the growing popularity of comics that take familiar characters and transplant them into unfamiliar historical contexts. …

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What is Style? – Notes From New Sodom

On August 1 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Big question. Hal Duncan has (long) answers.

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Cut For Your Pleasure – LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL

On July 31 By Liam Jose In Movies & TV

Exploring censorship, alternate versions of crime classics and the reasons behind creative changes. This edition: LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL

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Guy Gavriel Kay Interview – Ysabel

On July 26 By Justin In Interviews

This week our featured author  is critically acclaimed, award-winning writer Guy Gavriel Kay, author of the soon-to-be released novel Ysabel, and many other historical fantasies including The Last Light of the Sun and Tigana. A …

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12 Time-Twisted Crime Films

On July 24 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

It’s time to spring forward, as the saying goes. What daylight savings actually saves is beyond me. Just another way of making me wake up earlier than sunrise. Twisting time has worked a whole lot …

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Blindsight by Peter Watts Review

On July 24 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

One of the things I find interesting about “hard” science fiction — by way of introducing Peter Watts’s Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight, the best example of the type that I have read in years — is …

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Zoran Živković Interview + Seven Touches of Music + Steps Through the Mist Review

On July 22 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews, Interviews

This week our guest is World Fantasy Award winning author Dr. Zoran Živković. Publishers in the UK and USA have snapped up Živković’s stories, written in his native Serbian, in English translation at an ever-increasing …

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Takin’ ‘er Easy for All Us Sinners: The World According to Jeffrey Lebowski

On July 19 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

The Big Lebowski enjoys what is probably the largest cult following of all the cult-attracting films of Joel and Ethan Coen, and has pretty much since its release over a decade ago.  And “cult” has …

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Chew… Stripp’d

On July 19 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

Food is the archetypal First World problem. While some parts of the world starve and other parts are turned inside out by our demand for low-cost and low-fuss supplies of exotic and increasingly refined foodstuffs, …

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Review – The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak

On July 18 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

“Are you okay?” That is the question asked, in one form or another, in nearly all of the stories that comprise Christopher Barzak’s new mosaic novel The Love We Share Without Knowing. It is a …

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Top 10 Science Fiction Movies of the Decade 2000-2009

On July 16 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

All the end-of-year/decade lists going up right now inspired me to hit one up of my own. And all the hype about James Cameron’s Avatar, which is being trumpeted as some sort of monumental science fiction …

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Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link Review

On July 14 By Victoria Hoyle In Book Reviews

I can safely say that I’ve never met a Kelly Link story that I didn’t like, and, after re-reading her alchemical debut collection “Stranger Things Happen”, I’m just about ready to tell you why. First, …

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Playin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Jon Snow Chapter 19

On July 13 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

She’s new, I’m the re-reader. She’s the newbie, I’m the spoilery vet. Together She’s  g-mashin’ George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting here POV on. Today she moves on to Chapter 19, a …

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Playin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Catelyn Stark Chapter 18

On July 13 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

She’s new, I’m the re-reader. She’s the  newbie, I’m the spoilery vet. Together She’s  g-mashin’ George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting here POV on. Today she moves on to Chapter 18, a …

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In the Forest of Forgetting by Theodora Goss Review

On July 13 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

“The Rose in Twelve Petals” begins Theodora Goss’s newly-in-paperback collection In the Forest of Forgetting, and the story makes an ideal introduction to the the author’s work. A retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty story, …

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Songs of Hate, Part Two: The Visual Instead Of The Verbal

On July 12 By Cameron Ashley In Movies & TV

We left off last column with a run-down on the first of actress/singer Meiko Kaji’s Female Prisoner Scorpion series and a hint that things were about to get pretty weird. Well, the phantasmagoria goes full bore in the …

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Forget It, Eddie, It’s Toontown – The Crime Fiction Roots Of Roger Rabbit

On July 11 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

My friend’s dad took us to see Willow one sunny summer’s day in 1988.  It was a good movie and all, but honestly I was extremely distracted throughout the whole thing.  All I could think …

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Aaron Dembski-Bowden Interview – Warhammer 40K

On July 11 By Phillip Sobel In Interviews

Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a new author for The Black Library, Games Workshop’s publishing arm. Though only three novels into his Black Library writing career, he has fast developed a devoted following of both die-hard Warhammer …

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Getting to Know You by David Marusek Review

On July 10 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

Getting to Know You is only David Marusek’s second book, but he is already a veteran of the science fiction wars. Marusek’s 2005 novel Counting Heads was the subject of the debut speculative fiction column …

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Michael Cisco Interview

On July 9 By Lawrence In Interviews

First off, I’d like to thank Michael Cisco for agreeing to this interview and welcome him as our guest at Boomtron. Michael Terry Cisco is an American writer and teacher. He currently resides in New …

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Daytripper – The Deaths We Die Every Day

On July 8 By Ryan Lindsay In Comics

Daytripper, the ten issue maxi series comic by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, is an almost-surreal life study of one man, Brás de Oliva Domingos, and how he has lived his life. Each issue is …

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G.I. Joe Rawhides – 30 Years Later, the G.I. Joe Animated Movie

On July 7 By Jay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Back in 1987 fans of G.I. Joe got an animated film that has gone on to become a pretty divisive movie during a time which was probably the height of or toward the end of …

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The Ten Greatest Henchmen In Movie History

On July 3 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

Say you’re putting together a syndicate.  One of the first things that you are going to need is somebody to take care of your light work for you when words have run out.  As a …

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Sailing to Sarantium + Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay Review

On July 2 By Victoria Hoyle In Book Reviews

I have a set of bright memories associated with various of Guy Gavriel Kay’s novels: Sitting, aged 13, grief-stricken and sobbing in a cold bath having finished “The Darkest Road”, the final weft in his …

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Joe Abercrombie Interview

On June 29 By Jay In Interviews

Joe Abercrombie is the author of the First Law trilogy and Best Served Cold.  I have been a fan since the first book in the First Law found me in a bookstore, so I was …

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The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories by Theodora Goss Review

On June 29 By Victoria Hoyle In Book Reviews

Theodora Goss only began publishing her short fiction and poetry in 2002 but already her work has appeared in some of the genre’s most respected publications (including “Realms of Fantasy”, “Strange Horizons”, “Polyphony” and “Lady …

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The Millennium Falcon or Serenity? | Point/Counterpoint

On June 28 By Elisabeth Rappe and Eric Schlelein In Movies & TV

If there’s one thing nerds like to do, it’s debate.  And if there’s one thing nerds like to debate about, it’s useless trivia from TV shows and movies.  Thus, we humbly submit for your reading …

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7 Toughest Comebacks in Crime Film

On June 27 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

Crime heroes and villains got it rough. They’re usually up to the gills in trouble and their genre, unlike horror, doesn’t smile on its bad-asses soaking up too many bullets. A fortunate – or unfortunate, …

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Batman or Rorschach? – Point/Counterpoint

On June 27 By Elisabeth Rappe and Eric Schlelein In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

o, who would you rather have operating just outside the law to protect your city?  Batman or Rorschach?  Discuss!

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Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay Review

On June 25 By Victoria Hoyle In Books & Comics

I have a set of bright memories associated with various of Guy Gavriel Kay’s novels: Sitting, aged 13, grief-stricken and sobbing in a cold bath having finished “The Darkest Road”, the final weft in his …

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MultiReal by David Louis Edelman Review

On June 24 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

The labels “science fiction” and “speculative fiction” have long been entwined, with speculative fiction variously considered synonymous with science fiction or an umbrella that contains science fiction. And indeed most science fiction is speculative, either …

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Shai-Hulud from DUNE or Falkor the Luck Dragon from THE NEVERENDING STORY? – Point/Counterpoint

On June 24 By Elisabeth Rappe and Eric Schlelein In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

The question on everyone’s lips, which we humbly seek to answer today, “Which is the better ridiculous mode of transportation, Shai-Hulud from Frank Herbert’s Dune series, or Falkor the Luck Dragon from The Neverending Story?

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The 5 Worst TV Crime Show Finales

On June 23 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

You’d think it would be easy to wrap up a crime TV series. Punish the bad guys, save the day and solve the mystery. The audience can turn off the set with their belief in …

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6 Most Twisted Pranks in Crime Film

On June 20 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

A perfect crime always has a bit of a prank to it. When you’re breaking the law, you’re duping society, after all. You play a joke on old Lady Justice. The punchline just happens to …

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From Russia With Love and Dr. No – The James Bond Zapiska

On June 19 By Eric Schlelein In Book Reviews

Ah, the Cold War.  Growing up as I did in the Eighties, there was no greater Bad Guy in film or print as evil or subversive or insidious as the Russians.  They were the eternal enemy, lurking …

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Patrick Rothfuss Interview – Kingkilling It

On June 18 By Sarah Sommer In Interviews

Patrick Rothfuss is a new author who has generated lots of buzz in the last couple of months, and now he’s  on Boomtron. His debut novel, The Name of the Wind, is the first installment …

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The better sci-fi/fantasy pet? Spot from Star Trek: TNG, or Oy from Stephen King’s Dark Tower | Point/Counterpoint

On June 18 By Elisabeth Rappe and Eric Schlelein In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

This week we seek to answer that most pressing of questions: Which is the better sci-fi/fantasy pet?  Spot from Star Trek: The Next Generation, or Oy from Stephen King’s Dark Tower series?

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5 Terrifying Crime Films That Actually Happened

On June 17 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

There are plenty of crime films that straddle some scary territory: Serial killer suspense stories, “realistic” horror and a couple gangster-style stories with eerie elements. But even though Hollywood gets accused of slathering on the …

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Songs of Hate: Meiko Kaji and Female Prisoner Scorpion (Part One)

On June 16 By Cameron Ashley In Movies & TV

She sold over a million albums, her films inspired much of Kill Bill, and when she didn’t want to do what she was asked of by executives, she said uh-uh and split for greener pastures. Her name is …

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It’s Not The Quantity, It’s The Quality: Sion Sono’s COLD FISH

On June 15 By Cameron Ashley In Movies & TV

Back in my days teaching English in Japan, I raised the topic of murders and why they were so frequently extreme in Japan. One student actually said in reply, “It’s not the quantity, it’s the …

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Top 10 Restaurants In Crime Film

On June 15 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

Crime films often make me hungry. Often the restaurant scenes are among the best remembered in crime flicks. The coffee shops and Italian kitchens and juke joints where criminal characters go to grab a bite …

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Back Matter Matters – A Study In Commitment

On June 14 By Ryan Lindsay In Comics

It is a story in words and pictures; that’s comic, kids. That’s what the companies sell, that’s what we buy. But I always want more, and I don’t think I’m asking for too much. There …

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Adventures in Unhistory by Avram Davidson Review

On June 11 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

Imagine if you will that, when you were younger, you had an older relative — a grandfather or great-aunt — who was something of an armchair historian regarding mythology. Every now and then, when you …

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The Entertainers: 5 Essential Movies of Scam Cinema

On June 10 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

Hollywood: it’s all a scam, isn’t it? For all of our lives, the movies have promised us big, big things.  Action and adventure are just out there waiting for us.  Good always triumphs over evil.  A …

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Mark Charan Newton Interview – The Legends of the Red Sun

On June 10 By Phillip Sobel In Interviews

Mark Charan Newton is an urban fantasy author who’s currently two novels into his writing career and, judging by the sheer tonnage of critical acclaim which now includes a place in Library Journal’s top 5 …

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The Chimpanzee Complex… Stripp’d

On June 10 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

There is consolation in conspiracy. Whenever something terrible happens, humans look for answers and they don’t stop looking even when they have found them: It wasn’t Oswald who killed Kennedy, it was the mob or …

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Memories of Wing Commander

On June 9 By John Markley In Gaming

There aren’t many things from my youth that I truly miss, but one of the members of that elite group is the space combat flight simulator game. Once quite common, they are all but unknown …

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Dan Abnett Interview -In the Black Library

On June 9 By Phillip Sobel In Interviews

For me this is the interview to end all interviews. It’s not often one gets to interview a personal hero; I suspect this is mostly because heroes don’t enjoy mopping up fanboy drool, and frankly, …

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In and Out of The Big House: DOING TIME and 9 SOULS

On June 9 By Cameron Ashley In Movies & TV

By his own admission, noted Mangaka (pro comics creator) Kazuichi Hanawa had long been interested in themes of confinement. An early, unfinished experiment was a manga concerning a masked man locked up in a basement. It’s oddly …

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Three Days to Never by Tim Powers Review

On June 6 By Brian Lindenmuth In Book Reviews

Tim Powers’s novels are so unlike anything else that I think John Shirley said it best over at Emerald City “Tim Powers is his own genre”. Or maybe he is the most unpredictable predictable writer …

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More Evil, the Borg or the Aliens? | Point/Counterpoint

On June 6 By Elisabeth Rappe and Eric Schlelein In Movies & TV

In our never-ending quest to reduce the absurd, we offer the following Point/Counterpoint discussion:  Who is the better evil insidious race, the Borg, or the Aliens?

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Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit… Stripp’d

On June 6 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

Some would say that beautiful lives bloom only in the shadow cast by death. But while this may very well be true, how could we ever know for sure? Statements like this one and Plato’s …

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RPGs I didn’t get to play: The 8-bit years

On June 5 By John Markley In Gaming

I had the bad timing to become a console RPG fan at the dawn of the 1990s. This was originally due to a promotional gimmick run by Nintendo Power magazine in which they gave away …

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Whitechapel Squad: The Detective Comics of Warren Ellis

On June 5 By Jimmy Callaway In Books & Comics

I’ve long believed Warren Ellis is a crime-fiction writer at heart.  The first series of Wolfskin was a clear example of sword-and-sorcery comics, but had that distinct Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars feel, a dyed-in-the-wool crook playing both sides.  Comics like Aetheric …

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Black Crime Fiction: An Introduction

On June 5 By Brian Lindenmuth In Books & Comics

I. Introduction II. The Holy Trinity – Chester Himes, Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines III. Gone, Forgotten and Waiting for Discovery – Robert Deane Pharr & Clarence Cooper Jr. IV. The Best of the Rest …

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Arrivederci, Eltingville

On June 5 By Jimmy Callaway In Books & Comics

Comic book nerds are easy targets.  Fish in a barrel and on crutches, to boot.  Not to put too fine a point on it, but going to down to comics conventions and making fun of …

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Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky Review

On June 4 By Trine Paulsen In Books & Comics

Empire in Black and Gold is the debut of British author Adrian Tchaikovsky and the first installment in a trilogy titled Shadows of the Apt. In his debut Tchaikovsky gives us a heroic narrative where …

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Best Fantasy Movies of the Decade: 2000-2009

On June 4 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

When I was asked to write a companion piece to my Best Science Fiction Movies of the Decade list, I thought it would be equally as easy.  I was wrong.  There were a lot of …

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Charlie Adlard Interview – Portrait of the Artist as a Walking Dead Man

On June 4 By Stefan Petrucha In Books & Comics, Interviews, Movies & TV

Back in the nineties, I had the pleasure of working with Charlie Adlard on Topp’s The X-Files comic.  Ages later, the man who draws The Walking Dead was kind enough to spend some time catching …

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The Scott Pilgrim Girlfriend Test

On June 4 By Elena Nola In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

So you’ve finally met a girl who seems cool.  Outlook: positive…except that you can’t figure out how to suss out her level of nerdery without offending her or seeming even geekier than you are by …

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Phonogram… Stripp’d

On June 2 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

One could argue that the enduring popularity of genre motifs is a direct result of the death of God. Prior to the Enlightenment, the people of the ancient and medieval worlds knew their place.  They …

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Scam Artist Hall Of Fame: M. Sgt. E.G. Bilko

On June 2 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

Welcome, dear friends and other suckers, to a new regular feature here at the Criminal Complex.  Yes, the Scam Artist Hall Of Fame, as demanded by none of you, will highlight those great men and …

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The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip Review

On June 1 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

The award winning Patricia A. McKillip is one of the prominent authors within fantasy fiction, but whereas notable masters of the genre like J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin work on an epic scale, McKillip’s …

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Escapement by Jay Lake Review

On May 31 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

Escapement is the sequel to Jay Lake’s critically acclaimed novel Mainspring, wherein he maps out an alternate Earth anno 1900. Lake has quite cleverly constructed a world that for the most part resembles ours yet …

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Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey Review

On May 24 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

Kushiel’s Dart is Jacqueline Carey’s highly successful debut and the first instalment of a trilogy that chronicles the exploits of Phèdre nó Delaunay – exquisite courtesan, talented spy and god-touched masochist. The book received the …

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Before Youtube, Ninjak Debuts with a Bloodshot Problem in VALIANT Comics

On September 28 By Jay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

… ahhh classic VALIANT.

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 Back to Amberle & Brooks’ The Elfstones – MTV’s Shannara Chronicles Trailer 

On July 11 By Jay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

I will admit that I’m pretty easy to please but this thing looks better than I could have imagined. I’d consider myself very well entrenched in the world(s) of Terry Brooks, including and perhaps mostly …

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Judging Jorah Mormont as Daenerys Targaryen’s Champion

On May 19 By Jay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

A lot things happened in last week’s episode that people want to talk about a lot more — and oddly I think that particular one was one of the better shot, edited, and acted scenes in a …

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8 Things About House Tyrell and Highgarden

On May 14 By Jay In Game of Thrones

Like the rest of these I’ve done, zero spoilers for fans of the Game of Thrones experience on HBO, and nothing that a readers of the books doesn’t already know. This week: House Tyrell of …

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Ten Things About House Targaryen for Game of Thrones Fans

On May 11 By Jay In Game of Thrones

Back to Game of Thrones as a lot of people read my Ten Things about Dorne and House Martell and a similar post about House Stark so I thought it might be worthwhile to go …

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7 Things About Game of Thrones’ House Baratheon and the Stormlands

On May 8 By Jay In Game of Thrones

… because HBO watchers sleep on Bobby Baratheon.

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Ten Things About House Targaryen for Game of Thrones Fans

On May 1 By Jay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Back to Game of Thrones as a lot of people read my Ten Things about Dorne and House Martell and a similar post about House Stark so I thought it might be worthwhile to go …

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10 Things About House Martell and Dorne in HBO’s Game of Thrones

On April 25 By Jay In Game of Thrones

A new episode of Game of Thrones is coming at us Sunday but we were briefly introduced to Dorne last week. Dorne’s a bit of a new flavor from what we have seen of Westeros …

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Ten Things About House Stark of Game of Thrones

On April 25 By Jay In Game of Thrones

Back to some Game of Thrones . A lot of people read my 10 Things about Dorne and House Martell so I thought it might be worthwhile to go back to Westeros and do something similar …

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The Order of the Blue Flower by Hal Duncan – Notes from New Sodom

On June 21 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Science Fiction and Fantasy broken down and put back together by Hal Duncan on the quest forthe Blue Flower.

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The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum Review

On April 21 By Craig_Gidney In Book Reviews

Imagine Borges and Dali hanging out at Pee Wee Herman’s playhouse, and you have a brief inkling of what Rosenbaum’s fiction is like. The Ant King and Other Stories is Rosenbaum’s debut collection of short fiction, which …

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Jessica Bendinger Interview – Bringing It On

On April 1 By Elena Nola In Interviews

A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Jessica Bendinger, screen writer, director, and now author.  Her best-known work, at least in my age demographic, is writing Bring It On.  Jessica also wrote …

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The Evolution of the Serial Killer

On October 24 By Matthew C. Funk In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

America has always been crazy about serial killers. They’re our homegrown werewolves. They click with the fast-food car culture that roars in the country’s busy, busy heart. They fit neatly with our cult-of-celebrity-style national mythology. …

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Real = Angst – The Grim ‘N’ Gritty Trend Of The Non-Powered Superhero

On October 23 By Liam Jose In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Arrow, the WB action television series, starring Stephen Amell’s abs, based on the DC comic book series, Green Arrow, recently debuted and has now been picked up for a full season. Honestly, I haven’t seen …

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Cult Film Cult Crimes – Rob Zombie and THE LORDS OF SALEM

On October 10 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

Somewhere on the fringe of mainstream film, there’s a frenzied community of artists who illustrate an elemental aspect of crime. They don’t bother with the ticky-tack trivia of the procedural. They don’t focus on the …

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Strong Bonds – 007 from DR. NO to SKYFALL

On October 9 By Liam Jose In Movies & TV

British singer Adele has yet again proven herself to be a family friendly version of Amy Winehouse by recording a theme to a James Bond film, by (unlike the late Ms. Winehouse) actually getting the …

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Mae Catt – She Likes To Watch Monsters And Men

On September 27 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

On the occasion of the Emmys’ passing, let’s take a step outside the spotlight. I want to lead you to the fringes for a moment. You need to meet an artist who has yet to …

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Boozed Up And Beaten Down: Noir, Realism, And Alcohol

On September 25 By Liam Jose In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Booze and crime goes hand in hand like booze and being hugely attractive and winning in life. I am drinking while writing this, because something something simpatico and shit. After speaking with my editor about …

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