Saturday Waffling (August 22nd, 2015)
In case you missed it, I interviewed Peter Harness.On to new business, the Hugo Awards will be announced this evening, so let's just call this a thread to talk about those, even if that does mean...
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Oh, fine, let's just make this the Hugo thread, as apparently I want to say stuff.First of all, Vox Day lost, and that feels fucking amazing.Second of all, the "burn it all" No Award position lost,...
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The Mouse and the Gun (Super Scope 6/Mario Paint)
The GunThe first light gun was a 1936 amusement park game called the Seeburg Ray-O-Lite. Its design mirrored that of the technology’s most iconic form, the NES Zapper, at least in practice: you hunted...
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Vox Day's Next Move
An image from Vox Day's forthcoming SJWsAlways Lie, depicting him as Grant Morrison atopa throne surrounded by his friends and a franklyalarming number of subliminal penises.Vox Day (who we'll be...
View ArticleComics Reviews (August 26th, 2015)
Secret Wars to get an extra issue and continue into December, two months after the Marvel relaunch. DC reportedly cutting page rates to creators, eyeing price increases, and cutting back on innovation...
View ArticleA Review of Vox Day's New Book SJWs Always Lie
"In a world that is really upside down, the true is the moment of the false." - Guy Debord, Society of the SpectacleAlso, it has two chapter fives.
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Be afraid of stories, be afraid of storytellers. They are only trying to lie...
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Before Watchmen: Minutemen did some mildly interesting technical things with the form, but was frustratingly vapid in its portrayal of race, gender, and...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (August 29th, 2015)
Those inclined towards more of me nattering on about the Hugos will enjoy the video blog I just did for the wonderful Aric Clark. Embedded below.Those who want to talk about something different, well,...
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I Can Lock All My Doors (Super Mario Kart)
It feels as though we are only ever going in circles or hurtling off cliffs.For most of the Super Nintendo originals so far we have seen series that originated on the NES, and then found more refined...
View ArticleComics Reviews (September 2nd, 2015)
You know the drill; worst to best of what I bought.But first, something I didn't buy, because it's free.ElectricomicsOut today for free for iPad, this is the digital comics platform Leah Moore and...
View ArticleWeird Kitties: An Organized Anti-Slate For The 2016 Hugos
Weird Kitties is an organized anti-slate with a simple goal: to try to make sure every work on the 2016 Hugo ballot is there because of fans who nominated it because they liked it, and not because some...
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She wasn’t anyone special. She wasn’t that brave, or that clever, or that...
The omnibus version of this chapter will be sent to backers in the next week or two.Previously in The Last War in Albion:The god of Watchmen was revealed to be comprised of negative space; a tangible...
View ArticleWeird Kitties: Best Novel Open Thread
These'll be replacing Saturday Waffling for a while.Right, so, the party continues. I'll sort this into a landing page and a self-contained website eventually; there's a whole site redesign coming, and...
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Weird Kitties Reviews, Batch One (Elektrograd: Rusted Blood, The Fangirl's...
Here's the first batch of reviews. I'm still taking submissions for the next batch, to go up next Sunday. Send them to snowspinner at gmail.com. Short fiction reviews especially wanted.Elektrograd:...
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Fight Every Fight Like You Can Win (Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest)
By Anna WigginsSo here we are. Final Fantasy. I often say that Tolkien was my “first fandom”, but I don’t actually know whether I was introduced first to Bagginses or Chocobos. At any rate, Final...
View ArticleComics Reviews (September 9th, 2015)
This is a hugely important piece about the comics industry. You should read it.And now, from worst to best of what I bought. Much of it by Kieron Gillen.The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #5A...
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She was just somebody who felt cramped by the confines of her life. (The Last...
Previously in The Last War in Albion: In its earliest development at DC, Watchmen was based around a set of fairly generic superheroes DC had acquired from the defunct Charlton Comics, leading many...
View ArticleWeird Kitties: Best Short Story Open Thread
Got an interesting batch of reviews up for you tomorrow, including a number of candidates in Best Dramatic Presentation.Here's a couple of novels that got mentioned more than once in last week's...
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Weird Kitties Reviews, Batch Two (Frankenstein, Harry Potter and the Methods...
I do not anticipate needing any more Best Dramatic Presentation reviews in the immediate future.Frankenstein, by the MechanismsReviewed by William ShawEligible for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short...
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You're On the Global Frequency (Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge)
Comments are going to be temporarily disabled across the site for a few hours this evening due to some site maintenance. Relatedly, you should be sure to check back here tomorrow.I had three great...
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