Poverty Reduction Programme (The Last War in Albion Part 93: Song of the...
This is the fifth of eleven parts of The Last War in Albion Chapter Ten, focusing on Alan Moore's Bojeffries Saga. An omnibus of all eleven parts is available on Smashwords. If you are a Kickstarter...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (April 25th, 2015)
These Saturday Waffling posts are ostensibly sponsored by my >$5 a week patrons at Patreon, but only like five of them ever gave me links to what they'd like me to plug for them, so now I'm just...
View ArticleHigh Sparrow
Game of Thrones Season Five reviews are supported by my backers on Patreon. We crossed $300 this week, so I'll be doing the whole season. Assuming, you know, that nobody backs out or anything. There's...
View ArticleThere is an Ocean in my Soul Where the Waters do not Curve (F-Zero)
Anna Wiggins will be contributing a guest post for each year's worth of games covered in the Super Nintendo Project. For 1991, she's talking about F-Zero.It begins with sound. When I think about...
View ArticleComic Reviews (Wednesday April 29th, 2015)
From worst to best of what I paid your hard-earned Patreon donations for.X-Men #26Regrettably, this G. Willow Wilson arc simply didn't work. He script had interesting ideas, but between subpar writers...
View ArticleThe Great Gran'pappy of All Dirges (The Last War in Albion Part 94: Not the...
This is the sixth of eleven parts of The Last War in Albion Chapter Ten, focusing on Alan Moore's Bojeffries Saga. An omnibus of all eleven parts is available on Smashwords. If you are a Kickstarter...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (May 2nd, 2015)
Hello all. Just time for a quick one of these today - I just cut the Three Doctors commentary with Jack (out next week sometime) and I've been otherwise spending the day drawing up notes for my...
View ArticleSons of the Harpy
Brought to you by my backers on Patreon. There's a new Milestone there, by the way, as we just unlocked the Marcelo Camargo post today. So at $325, $10 from where we are now, I'll do a post on Night of...
View ArticleWill You Even Tell Her if You Decide to Make the Sky Fall (SimCity, Populous,...
CREATE AND MANAGE A LIVING CITYThe history of urban planning is ultimately one of control machines - of efforts to build spaces that will shape the lives and psyches of its inhabitants. Housing...
View ArticleIn Defense of Sucker Punch
A commissioned essay for Eric Rosenfield.I will admit that I am not entirely sure how to go about constructing a defense of Sucker Punch. It seems to me a film that is its own defense . It’s...
View ArticleComics Reviews (May 6th, 2015)
The Amazing Spider-Man #18The storyline that fills the gap between Spider-Verse and Secret Wars ends, having accomplished its primary aesthetic goal of taking up three issues.Convergence: The Question...
View ArticleThe Three Doctors Commentary
Jack Graham and I have struck again, this time with The Three Doctors. Technical difficulties did not stop us, although they did leave some strange noise artifacts on episode one to surprise you if you...
View ArticleThe Word "Fuck" Typed Eight Thousand Times (The Last War in Albion Part 95:...
This is the seventh of eleven parts of The Last War in Albion Chapter Ten, focusing on Alan Moore's Bojeffries Saga. An omnibus of all eleven parts is available on Smashwords. If you are a Kickstarter...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (May 9th, 2015)
In case you missed it, The Three Doctors commentary. The Super Nintendo Project will be running on Tuesdays for the duration of Game of Thrones. Tomorrow's review will be up as soon as I can get it,...
View ArticleKill the Boy
Funded via my Patreon.State of PlayThe choir goes off. The board is laid out thusly:The Lion, Tyrion LannisterDragons of Mereen: Daenerys TargaryenDirewolves of the Wall: Jon SnowBurning Hearts of the...
View ArticleAny Old Idiot Can Be A Hero (Final Fantasy II)
Brought to you with the support of 147 backers on Patreon.Video games came from Toy Works. At least, in the Super Nintendo era they did. It moved around; the Nintendo era was mostly Toys ‘R Us, at...
View ArticleComics Reviews (May 13th, 2015)
From worst to best of what I bought.Thor #8The odds that this was going to win me back in the final issue were low, and sure enough, it didn't. It's as I complained with #7 - if it's Solomon, it's...
View ArticleWe Apologize For the Delay
Last War in Albion will post tomorrow in lieu of Saturday Waffling. Lunch and I had a bit of a disagreement yesterday, and I forgot to get it queued up in the general muddle.
View ArticleTalons of the Old World (The Last War in Albion Part 96: Writing for Comics)
This is the eighth of eleven parts of The Last War in Albion Chapter Ten, focusing on Alan Moore's Bojeffries Saga. An omnibus of all eleven parts is available on Smashwords. If you are a Kickstarter...
View ArticleUnbowed, Unbent, Unbroken
I'm not rewatching that right now to write up the State of Play.In and of itself, as a story element, it was justified. There was never anything that could plausibly keep Sansa safe from it, any more...
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