Book Review: The Groom Lay Dead by George Harmon Coxe September 9, 1943: In Europe, the Armistice of Cassibile has been announced, the Italian government having withdrawn from the Axis alliance. (Not that it helped them much because Germany promptly took over much of Italy to fight on.) But in the Finger Lakes region of… Continue reading Book Review: The Groom Lay Dead
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Book Review: Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
Book Review: Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters edited by Tim Marquitz & N.X. Sharps Like many a Godzilla fan, I have a fondness for movies where gigantic monsters rampage across the landscape. The fandom has more or less adopted the Japanese term for such monsters, kaiju. While the big critters have been a staples of… Continue reading Book Review: Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
Book Review: First Contact
Book Review: First Contact by Michael R. Hicks The scout ship Aurora is searching for new worlds, especially inhabitable ones for the citizens of Earth and the various worlds their descendants have colonized. What at first seems like a bonus of two viable worlds in the same star system turns into a deadly encounter. Those… Continue reading Book Review: First Contact
Comic Book Review: Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories by Harvey Kurtzman
Comic Book Review: Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories by Harvey Kurtzman edited by Gary Groth In later years, Harvey Kurtzman was better known for his humor work, among other things being the first editor of MAD. But while he worked at EC Comics in the early Fifties, Mr. Kurtzman was also known for some… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories by Harvey Kurtzman
Comic Book Review: Our Army at War
Comic Book Review: Our Army at War edited by Joey Cavalieri Back in the day, DC Comics had a fine line of war comics. Primarily focused around World War Two, they paid tribute to the American military and the Greatest Generation. Which is not to say that they were mindless patriotic propaganda. The stories often depicted… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Our Army at War
Movie Review: Stage Door Canteen
Movie Review: Stage Door Canteen (1943) A troop train carrying soldiers to a base near New York City has typical troopers California, Dakota, Jersey and Tex on board. Only Jersey has a steady girl, and he’s hoping they have some time before being shipped overseas to see her. California’s never even kissed a girl,… Continue reading Movie Review: Stage Door Canteen
Book Review: George W. Hamilton, USMC: America’s Greatest World War I Hero
Book Review: George W. Hamilton, USMC: America’s Greatest World War I Hero by Mark Mortensen Disclosure: I received this book through a Firstreads giveaway, on the premise that I would review it. Everyone who served in a military in World War One is dead, and we’re rapidly coming up on the centennial of the Great War itself.… Continue reading Book Review: George W. Hamilton, USMC: America’s Greatest World War I Hero