Find me at Salt Lake Comic Con! Wednesday September 3, 2014

I'm at Salt Lake Comic Con this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday! Schlock Mercenary merchandise will be in booth 1600, but that number is misleading. We're at the west end of Aisle 700, right across from The Pie Pizzeria booth. My full schedule is below, but the booth will be staffed… Read more

Kubo and the Two Strings Tuesday September 6, 2016

See Kubo and the Two Strings before it leaves theaters. Please? I don’t have any skin in the game here, but I feel like this film deserves more attention than it is getting. I loved it. The artistry involved is absolutely stunning. Aside from being a really good story, told… Read more

November 28, 2000 Tuesday November 28, 2000

I redesigned the site a bit, and got rid of the ugly brown box. I used to think it looked nice and schlocky, but today I decided it just looked like crap, so I flushed it. During my redesign I realized that there is only one Schlock review in my… Read more

It IS Cool Monday February 6, 2012

Schlock Mercenary got nominated for the “Favorite Comic Book Team” @$$ie Award over at Ain’t It Cool News. This post is exactly as long as the text mentioning Schlock Mercenary. I will cheerfully take every word of positive review I can get. Here’s to all fifty-one of them. Read more

The Blógünder is Back Thursday August 10, 2006

Big thanks to Daniel Meyer for his help getting php to work on the home page at schlockmercenary.com. You can again read what I've been writing about. As an added bonus, this is a live-updating script, rather than a polling solution. What does that mean to you? It means that… Read more

Commemorating Schlock 2k Thursday December 1, 2005

Tomorrow, December 2nd, the 2000th consecutive daily Schlock Mercenary strip airs. I didn't do anything commemorative in the strip itself so I decided to celebrate the milestone in another way. I'll be hanging out at Dragon's Keep all afternoon Friday (from 2pm 'till 7pm, when they close), and then helping… Read more

Pre-Order Your Tub of Happiness Today! Thursday September 20, 2007

At long last, the first five-hundred and seven days of Schlock Mercenary are coming to a dead-tree near you. Pre-orders for Schlock Mercenary: The Tub of Happiness are now open. This 240-page volume features every strip and footnote from June 12th of 2000 through November 11th of 2001, and includes… Read more

Hail, Caesar Wednesday February 17, 2016

So far this year I’ve seen three movies, and all of them have been a lot of fun. Hail, Caesar currently sits at the bottom of my list, but it’s well above the Threshold of Disappointment. Hail, Caesar is a movie for movie people. It’s full of SAG in-jokes and… Read more

Death by Cliché at 99 Cents Wednesday September 7, 2016

I’ve talked about Death by Cliché before. I really like the book, and I’m a beta-reader for the sequels. It’s a game-genre dark comedy in which an RPG designer gets shot in the head and wakes up in the terribly-designed role playing game that is being run by the young man who… Read more

Avengers: Infinity War Monday April 30, 2018

I enjoyed Avengers: Infinity War, but not unreservedly. It has brilliant, beautiful moments, and it does some daring and wonderful things with character and story, but there are reasons why audiences are not exuberantly cheering on their way out of the theater. I want to make a recommendation, but I can’t… Read more

Forty Looks Just Like Thirty-Nine, Only Rounder Saturday March 1, 2008

Thanks for all the kind Birthday wishes, everybody. I've gotten tons of email and postcards, and had a fine birthday. I don't have time to put up an updated postcard-wall picture. I need to get back to work today. This Bonus Story isn't writing itself. I posted my thoughts on… Read more

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Wednesday April 27, 2016

Merry Christmas Friday December 24, 2010

Merry Christmas, everyone. We're having a quiet weekend here at Chez Tayler, at least so far. As of this writing (noon on Christmas Eve) it's just pleasantly peaceful. We'll be gathering with extended family this evening, and then having our family gift exchange in the usual fashion tomorrow morning. Sunday… Read more

Knives Out Thursday December 26, 2019

I’m late to the party on this one, I know. Here’s a short summary: Knives Out is the most fun I’ve had at a murder mystery in recent memory, and I spent several minutes combing my memory for contenders. Sandra and I saw it together, and were both quite pleased… Read more

Battle: Los Angeles Friday March 11, 2011

Roger Ebert hated this movie. After his declaration that video games cannot be art, however, I determined that his opinion might be suspect with regards to anything less than two centuries old. In that mind-set I ventured forth, hopeful that this movie might show me a good time. It did.… Read more

Scrapyard Recoloring is Done Wednesday February 4, 2009

Two hundred and thirty-three rows of comics, almost a thousand panels, nigh on twelve hundred different Photoshop layers... and it's finally all done. Lessons learned: 1) These take ten minutes each, but only if I decide I don't really care. 2) I really care. 3) Budgeting forty quick-and-dirty hours for… 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

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

Hitman: Agent 47 Monday August 24, 2015

Hitman: Agent 47 does nothing to set itself apart from other action movies, and is kind of predictable from start to finish. Still, it didn’t actually disappoint me, so it enters my list at #17, safely above the Threshold of Disappointment. Rupert Friend’s performance as the titular 47 is pretty… Read more