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Book Review: Boundary, by Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor Saturday February 25, 2006
I just finished taking a vacation day. I decided to read a book -- Boundary, by Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor. I couldn't resist. It had a picture on the front of dinosaurs fighting over a crashed spacecraft. This was my kind of story: Hard science-fiction, Heroes-and-Heroines, and a Happy… Read more
Pre-Orders now open for The Body Politic Monday July 8, 2013
Pre-orders are now open for Schlock Mercenary: The Body Politic, the ninth volume in the massively-serial space ope-- what am I saying? You people know all of this. I mean, you're here, right? This volume is different from every other volume we've done. There is no bonus story. There is,… Read more
Howard's 2016 Movie Rankings
As I've said in previous years (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015), this is a very subjective exercise, and I often lose track of just how much "fun" something was during the 12-month course of creating the list. It's possible, however, that this scale will be useful to you. Read more
Annihilation Sunday February 25, 2018
Annihilation did some magnificent things, but ultimately it didn’t tell a story that I enjoyed very much. I can’t complain at all about the acting, the effects, the camera work, or the sound design, because everything was spot on, and much of it was outstanding. What was missing, however, was a surprising-yet-inevitable… Read more
Arrival Wednesday November 16, 2016
Arrival is brilliant, beautiful, touching, and quite thought-provoking. It clears my Threshold of Awesome, and invites me to say very little about it lest I rob my readers of the voyage of discovery the film offers. The film is adapted from Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life,” which can be… Read more
Inferno Monday November 7, 2016
The trailers for the latest Tom Hanks Treasure Hunt, Inferno, looked kind of silly. The line “I left you a path… the hardest one yet” suggests that somebody has created a puzzle for Professor Langdon, and is deliberately leaving the fate of the human race in his hands. Fortunately, the trailer is misleading. As archaeological… Read more
Yes, You Read That Correctly… Saturday June 15, 2019
Sergeant In Motion: Schlock Mercenary Book 20, will be the last book in the Schlock Mercenary “mega-arc,” the unbroken¹ string of 7,300-ish² days of daily comics airing here at schlockmercenary.com. At that point the continuity of the Schlock Mercenary universe will include those twenty books, assorted bonus stories (which appear… Read more
No Time For Reviews: Fright Night and Rise of the Planet of the Apes Monday August 29, 2011
I've got too much script-writing and comic-drawing to give these two films proper reviews with pictures and stuff. I liked "Apes" more than Fright Night, but then again I'm not a fan of horror as a genre. Still, David Tennant and Colin Farrell were fantastic. The only serious failing of… Read more
Find Me at Gen Con Indy Thursday August 14, 2014
I will be at GenCon Indy this weekend. I arrive on Tuesday for setup, and won't fly home until Monday the 18th, and yes, this means the convention is eating a week of buffer. Like a voracious monster with 70,000 mouths... Find me in Booth 1437 with Jim Zub and… Read more
Atomic Blonde Friday August 25, 2017
This twisty, retro thriller is pretty amazing on a number of counts, but I’ll lead with this: The action is tight, with some through-composed fight scenes whose choreography runs across multiple blows and throws, and therefore requires the stars to be doing a lot of the fighting themselves. It feels… Read more
Coming Back From the Printer! Wednesday March 24, 2021
Big Dumb Objects is on its way back from the printer! We had a couple of delays, but yesterday we received our advance copies of the book, along with some advance copies of the slipcase for books 12 through 16. It wasn’t a big box of books, but it was… Read more
Geostorm Tuesday October 24, 2017
Geostorm is to climate science what Armageddon was to rocket science. It’s also to rocket science what Armageddon was to rocket science, but if I keep going I’ll have described an entire course catalog. The message of the film, “let’s take care of our planet responsibly,” is delivered a little heavy-handedly, and… Read more
Incredibles 2 Tuesday June 19, 2018
Before I begin my review, a public service announcement: Incredibles 2 may trigger seizures in sufferers of photosensitive epilepsy¹, and may in other ways afflict anyone who is sensitive to flashing lights. Seriously. There’s a fight scene in a room full of patterned strobes, and in the darkened theater there will be no… Read more
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Saturday December 17, 2016
I saw Rogue One. The odds are pretty good that if you’re reading this, you’ve already decided whether or not to see it, and if you haven’t yet seen it you’d rather I not spoil anything. I’ll make this quick: It is a fine film beyond simply being a Star… Read more
BOOK 19 Kickstarter: 10 Days Left Tuesday April 8, 2025
Somebody (probably Howard) forgot to post this news. You should have seen it three weeks ago. Whoops! We’re crowdfunding A FUNCTION OF FIREPOWER, and the project closes in just ten days. The cover looks a lot like this: Cover design by Howard Tayler. Cover illustration by Garrett Berner. The bonus… Read more
Passengers Wednesday December 21, 2016
I saw Passengers on Tuesday night. Here are some words I used on Twitter: Beautiful. Powerful. Heartbreaking. Inspiring. Awesome. Chris Pratt did a fine job, and Michael Sheen was spot on, but Jennifer Lawrence absolutely owned her role, all the way to the bone. She was astounding, and without her performance the… Read more
My Buddy Bob Writes Role-Playing Games Saturday July 29, 2006
I've been meaning to plug the excellent RPG work of Robert J. Defendi for, like, EVER. I keep meaning to, and then keep not doing it. I played a demo back in February, and I blogged it, but then I posted an auction and it slipped below the fold. Well,… Read more
Everest Tuesday September 29, 2015
I was pretty sure I didn’t actually need a cinematic event to convince me not to put climbing Everest on my bucket list, but I’m extra convinced now. The film was powerful, and beautiful, and tragic. The various accounts of May 10, 1996’s disastrous Everest ascents have appeared in at least half… Read more
From the Department of Finally He Gets Around To It Thursday January 7, 2016
Last year I commissioned a bonus story for Force Multiplication. The story was written by Sandra Tayler, and illustrated by Natalie Barahona, and it was supposed to be lettered by me. Well, now it’s finally getting lettered by me. This is a story from Bristlecone’s past. You’re looking at about… Read more
DVD Review: A Mighty Wind Tuesday March 14, 2006
My buddy Dennis told me I needed to see this film. I'm not sure he and I have the same operational definitions of the word "need," but I confess to being entertained. If you're not familiar with the work of Christopher Guest, here's a quick primer: He creates "Mockumentaries," which… Read more