Tag: Anthony Perconti
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1 Review
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 142, November 2023 New Edge Sword and Sorcery #1 gives readers a wide variety of stories set within the sword and sorcery genre. I find it heartening that the contributors to New Edge take an expansive approach in fleshing out their individual protagonists. They are not mere cookie cutter, musclebound “thud & blunder” heroes…
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The Nine Worlds in All Their Splendor: A Review of Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 94, November 2019 For me, reading a book by Neil Gaiman is like having an old friend, whom you haven’t seen in a long while, over for dinner and drinks. Time has elapsed since you last socialized, but as old companions, you pick up exactly where you left off, and…
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Can’t Find My Way Home—A Review of ‘Weirdworld Volume 1: Where Lost Things Go’
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 92, September 2019 2019As far as bad days go, high school senior Becca Rodriguez is having a pretty crap one. While en route to Mexico to inter her mother’s ashes, her flight takes a permanent detour. The passengers are pulled through a planar vortex into the realm known as Weirdworld.…
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Jack Eternal—A Review THE LAY OF OLD HEX: SPECTRAL BALLADS & WEIRD JACK TALES by Adam Bolivar
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 91. August 2019 2019I first heard of Adam Bolivar in the wonderful Clark Ashton Smith documentary, The Emperor of Dreams. Prior to watching this documentary, it was unbeknownst to me that in California, there is a long standing tradition of poets producing works in the Romantic style. George Sterling, active during…
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Title: The Best ‘70’s Comic Never Written (Part Two): Bronze Age Boogie #1 “Swords Against Dacron”
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 88, May 2019 May 2019I have always been a big fan of genre mash-ups. Types of stories (in any medium, really) that are an amalgamation of different elements that at first may not seem like an obvious choice to combine. But when they are done well, these combinations breathe new…