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Howard's 2010 Movie Rankings
During the summers of 2008 and 2009 I ranked summer blockbusters based on how much fun I had in the theater. This is a hugely subjective scale. In late 2009 some readers asked me to further complicate things by ranking every movie for an entire year in the same way.… Read more
Cheap Sins, Fresh Wrath Monday May 14, 2018
Sins of Empire, by Brian McClellan, is on sale for $2.99, likely as part of a dastardly ploy to lure readers of fine flintlock fantasy into the acquisition of Wrath of Empire when it releases on Tuesday, May 15th¹. The plot is all the more sinister given the likelihood that its victims… Read more
Movie Review: The Day The Earth Stood Still Saturday December 13, 2008
I had a great time at the movie with Richard and all our friends from GWAVA, Grouplink, Omni, Brainstorm, and of course Novell. About twenty Schlockers showed up, too, but there's a healthy chunk of those IT guys reading the strip as well. It was quite the party. The movie… 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
Howard's 2017 Movie Rankings
This is a ranked list of the movies I've seen in 2017. I've ranked them according to how much fun I had in the theater. As I've said in previous years (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), this is a very subjective exercise, and I often lose track of… Read more
Sketch Edition Pre-Ordering is Now Closed Tuesday July 23, 2013
Pre-orders for The Body Politic remain open, but we are now closing pre-orders for sketch editions. I'd write more, but I need to be writing other stuff. Also, there's a book review coming. Read more
The Online Debut of the Boxed Set Bundle Tuesday November 2, 2010
I'll be at Webcomics Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, where I will be selling Schlock Mercenary 5-book boxed sets, plus the sixth book, Resident Mad Scientist, for just $100. That's the price of the boxed set by itself, so it's like getting book six for free. But not all of… Read more
DVD Review: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Saturday March 11, 2006
We rented Tim Burton's Corpse Bride a while back, and loved it. I'd already seen it in the theaters, but it was worth seeing again... this time with the kids. Burton's work is always hard to categorize, but it always has elements to it that say "Tim Burton did this."… Read more
Iron Man 2: The 2 Movie Comes In at 3 Saturday May 8, 2010
At this point in the year I hold out little hope of anything outshining How to Train Your Dragon for me. I had great fun at Iron Man 2, but it was a "2" movie with not enough surprises to really shine. Still, it edged ahead of most of the… Read more
Live-Tweeting an Unwatchable Movie Wednesday September 28, 2016
Technically Raiders of the Lost Shark isn’t actually unwatchable. K.B. Spangler and I did watch it, after all. We shouldn’t have. It’s not “so bad it’s funny” or “so bad it’s good.” It’s “so bad I can’t imagine how it happened.” Anyway, we live-tweeted our viewing, and then K.B. posted… Read more
December 06, 2000 Wednesday December 6, 2000
There's a new feature here at Schlock Mercenary, and it is decidedly unfunny, for which I feel the need to apologize. I'll continue to feel this need for maybe twenty or thirty minutes, and then I'll get over it without actually apologizing. I hope this guilt-denial mechanism of mine doesn't… Read more
Gonna be a busy week... Monday July 28, 2014
Sandra and I had our usual planning meeting, and she went all "art director" on me and outlined this week's tasks: Design new banners for the GenCon booth Write & illustrate two weeks of Schlock Mercenary Finish my two pages of the Massively Parallel bonus story Here are the things she… Read more
Spectre Friday November 6, 2015
I’m trying to put my finger on why Spectre didn’t work for me. The salient point is that I spent much of the film being bored, so obviously there was a problem. In Casino Royale we were shown a young James Bond who was unmade and remade by betrayal. In Quantum of… Read more
The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse is Coming Friday May 9, 2014
Pre-orders for Schlock Mercenary book 10, The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse, open on May 19th. That's one week from Monday. I don't have the hand or the hours to do as many sketch editions as I've done in the past, so we're limiting those to 500. You have been warned.… Read more
The Sketching Begins! Thursday January 23, 2025
Book 18, Mandatory Failure, has arrived from the printer. I’ve signed about 2500 copies, and we’ve begun queueing those up for sketches. A few stacks of MANDATORY FAILURE awaiting sketches from Howard My stamina is not what it used to be. I’m as fast as ever, but I wear out… Read more
DVD Review: The Tick Saturday March 18, 2006
Okay, I've seen all the episodes, and The Tick (live action) still = Brilliant. From the pilot episode: "Destiny dressed you this morning, my friend, and now Fear wants to pull off your pants. If you give up, if you give in, then you're going to end up naked, with… 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
Howard's Movie Rankings: 2010 Saturday May 8, 2010
Through the end of 2010 this page is a work in progress. On it, I rank the films I've seen based on how much I enjoyed my experience in the theater. Horrible films may rank highly. Art films may plummet. All films are linked to the pages where I first… 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
Movie Review: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Saturday August 5, 2006
I'll try and make this review short, because tomorrow is my anniversary and I haven't gone shopping yet... This is not a great movie, and might not even be a great comedy. Somehow, though, I went in the right frame of mind, and with the right person (my brother Randy,… Read more