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Our Skullbabies (The Last War in Albion Part 100: Girls)
This is the first of five parts of The Last War in Albion Chapter Eleven, focusing on Alan Moore's The Ballad of Halo Jones. An omnibus of all eleven parts is available on Smashwords. If you are a...
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John C. Wright Has Just Advocated For My Murder
In the comments over at Vox Day's blog, John C. Wright posted the following:The first line is Wright quoting a previous post of mine. The second paragraph is him advocating for my murder. Because he...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Episode 1: The Friends of English Magic
Right, so, here we are; a seven week run of reviews of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that you didn’t even have to pay for on Patreon. That said, the Patreon has taken a couple hits lately (some...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to John C. Wright
The tl;dr here is that Recursive Occlusion, my interactive occult overview of Doctor Who, is now available for just $8.99 from Amazon and Amazon UK. An altogether more impish version of this...
View ArticleMother's Mercy
In case you missed it, I responded to some more stuff John C. Wright has been saying, and pushed Recursive Occlusion to a wider release as well.State of PlayThe choir goes off. The board is laid out...
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A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.04: Garden of Bones
State of PlayThe Choir goes off The board is laid out thusly:Lions of King’s Landing: Tyrion LannisterThe Direwolf, Catelyn StarkDragons of Qarth: Daenerys TargaryenThe Mockingbird, Petyr BaelishBears...
View ArticleComics Reviews (May 26th, 2015)
Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever #1Not a week where being at the bottom of the list is a commentary on much beyond how good the list is. Ewing is going for raw silliness here, and the pleasure of this...
View ArticleComics Reviews (June 17th, 2015)
Old Man Logan #2Well this went off the rails fast. After a first issue long on potential, this is a chain of scenes, all of them interrupted before anything interesting is allowed to happen so that...
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Perdido Street Station
Far be it from me to criticize my generous and wise patrons, on whose behalf this essay is written, but I suspect that Perdido Street Station is not, in fact, the best way to start with China Miéville....
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A Home That's Miles From Home (The Last War in Albion Part 101: Halo Jones...
This is the second of five parts of The Last War in Albion Chapter Eleven, focusing on Alan Moore's The Ballad of Halo Jones. An omnibus of all eleven parts is available on Smashwords. If you are a...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (June 20th, 2015)
There is a prominent Doctor Who site that I have very strong suspicions engages in deeply fraudulent and exploitative practices with regards to their advertising. I was a victim of this scam, but...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Episode 2: How is Lady Pole?
In a real sense, this, not “The Friends of English Magic,” is the first episode of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Where the first episode was focused primarily on the task of worldbuilding,...
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A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.05: The Ghost of Harrenhal
State of PlayThe choir goes off. The board is laid out thusly:Lions of King’s Landing: Tyrion Lannister, Cersei LannisterThe Direwolf, Catelyn StarkDragons of Qarth: Daenerys TargaryenThe Mockingbird,...
View ArticleThe Ark in Space Commentary
Jack and I are back, talking nonsense over The Ark in Space. We actually recorded this over a month ago, but then I somehow failed to post it for two weeks, and then I kept having other things to post...
View ArticleComics Reviews (June 24, 2015)
Please be sure to stop by tomorrow for a very important post that will have some severe repercussions within the Doctor Who fan community.From worst to best of what I paid for.E is for Extinction #1You...
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Doctor Who Online, Sebastian J. Brook, and the Defrauding of a Community
This isn't a particularly pleasant post, I'm afraid, but it's an important one. I've spoken occasionally about the fact that it's vital for freelance creators to be open about where their money comes...
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The Exposed Violet Membrane (The Last War in Albion Part 102: Halo Jones Book...
This is the third of five parts of The Last War in Albion Chapter Eleven, focusing on Alan Moore's The Ballad of Halo Jones. An omnibus of all eleven parts is available on Smashwords. If you are a...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (June 27th, 2015)
Update: Mr. Brook has responded in the comments. Jack Graham, on Twitter, characterizes his response as "bluff and bafflegab and nothing else," which is pretty much the long and short of it. I've got a...
View ArticleJonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Episode 3: The Education of a Magician
There we go.It’s perhaps ironic that, having spent two episodes building up the Jonathan Strange/Mr. Norrell dualism that’s the core engine of the series, it’s the act of splitting them back up that...
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A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.06: The Old Gods and the New
State of PlayThe choir goes off. The board is laid out thusly:Lions of King’s Landing: Tyrion Lannister, Cersei LannisterThe Direwolf, Catelynn StarkDragons of Qarth: Daenerys TargaryenMockingbirds of...
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