Tag: Review
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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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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…
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Traveling Through This World of Woe: A Review of ‘Weirdworld’: Volume 0
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 84, January 2019 December 2018 Let me pose to you a philosophical quandary. What if God were a super-villain? What if he collected the shattered vestiges of the multiverse and re-forged it according to his own twisted intellect and desires? This exact question was the high concept premise behind…
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The Bane of the Sword Rulers: A Review of ‘Corum- The Coming of Chaos’
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 82, November 2018 2018 “There are more things in heaven and earth, HoratioThan are dreamt of in your philosophy.”-Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio In 1971, Michael Moorcock started a new fantasy series starring Corum Jhaelen Irsei, the Prince in the Scarlet Robe. The White Wolf omnibus edition, The Coming of Chaos, is…