Comic Strip Review: Back to B.C. | B.C. Big Wheel by Johnny Hart B.C. and his friends are cavemen living in what appears to be prehistoric times. Fire and the wheel are relatively new inventions, and humans mix with dinosaurs and animals that can talk to each other if not to humans. Their world is… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: Back to B.C. | B.C. Big Wheel
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Book Review: Private Eye’s Bumper Book of Boobs
Book Review: Private Eye’s Bumper Book of Boobs edited by Richard Ingrams Private Eye is a satire and current events magazine that’s been published in Great Britain since 1961. While their investigative reporting is perhaps more important a contribution to society, they also do a lot of jokes and other humor. One recurring feature has… Continue reading Book Review: Private Eye’s Bumper Book of Boobs
Comic Strip Review: Hägar the Horrible: “Caught in the Act!”
Comic Strip Review: Hägar the Horrible: “Caught in the Act!” by Dik Browne It is the age of Vikings, what some will call the Dark Ages. In a coastal village somewhere on the coast of Norway lives a minor raider chieftain named Hägar the Horrible. This doughty warrior travels around the known world, and sometimes… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: Hägar the Horrible: “Caught in the Act!”
Comic Strip Review: Is Nothing Sacred?
Comic Strip Review: Is Nothing Sacred? by Gahan Wilson Gahan Wilson (1930-2019) was a cartoonist known for his macabre imagination and dark humor, though he also dipped into relatively mundane observational humor as well. His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Playboy on a regular basis, as… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: Is Nothing Sacred?
Movie Review: The Case of the Curious Bride
Movie Review: The Case of the Curious Bride (1935) directed by Michael Curtiz Between movies, star defense attorney Perry Mason has successfully defended an alleged hatchet killer, humiliating the district attorney once again. He’s preparing for a victory feast, the crab dish of which he’ll cook himself, and then a Chinese vacation. At the restaurant, he’s… Continue reading Movie Review: The Case of the Curious Bride
Manga Review: Shonen Jump Weekly 2022
Manga Review: Shonen Jump Weekly 2022 Can you believe I’ve been doing Shounen Jump Weekly reviews for ten years now? So much has changed during that timeframe, Famous longrunners have ended, new favorites have come and gone, instead of a simulated magazine the website is more like a box of manga you can dip into… Continue reading Manga Review: Shonen Jump Weekly 2022
Comic Book Review: Jughead with Archie Digest Magazine #134
Comic Book Review: Jughead with Archie Digest Magazine #134 by various creators The Archie characters and setting first appeared in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941) as part of the M.L.J. Magazines comic book publishing line. Inspired by the wholesome Andy Hardy movies starring Mickey Rooney, Archie Andrews was a “typical American teenager” with a stable… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Jughead with Archie Digest Magazine #134
Manga Review: Unicorns Aren’t Horny 1
Manga Review: Unicorns Aren’t Horny 1 by Semi Ikuta Emuko Esuyama isn’t asexual or aromantic, just to be clear. She’s attracted to men and would very much like to be with one eventually. But she’s not into one night stands and somehow she’s never managed to fall in love, or vice versa. Thus it is… Continue reading Manga Review: Unicorns Aren’t Horny 1
Book Review: Deck the Pulps
Book Review: Deck the Pulps published by Brick Pickle Media Pulp magazines, like most forms of media, liked to celebrate holidays. Such as, you know, Christmas. But being the pulps, they leavened the usual sentimentality of the season with more of their usual action and excitement. This set of nine tales covers a variety of… Continue reading Book Review: Deck the Pulps
Book Review: The Destroyer #26: In Enemy Hands
Book Review: The Destroyer #26: In Enemy Hands by Richard Sapir & Warren Murphy When JFK realized that there were certain threats to America and the world that could not be handled by normal government agencies and it wasn’t wise to rely on random good people stepping up, he turned to bureaucrat and former CIA… Continue reading Book Review: The Destroyer #26: In Enemy Hands