MECHANOID PRESS RIDES THE WEIRD WEST WITH DEBUT OF ‘STRANGE TRAILS’!


Glenn Hauman promised yesterday that I’d deliver a “fuller explanation of what’s been going on” vis-à-vis my piece “Welcome to Hollywood.” So in the interests of keeping this story alive (because you haven’t lived until you’ve heard the words, “You’ll never work in this town again”) I’ll try to squeeze in another few inches. Jason…
Getting a hologram card of Wolverine in a pack of the first series of Marvel Universe Trading Cards is one of my fondest childhood memories. I was five. I showed almost all the guys in my class. Unfortunately, if this kindergartener had been inspired to buy the Wolverine comic around that time it would have…
Martinez has been writing humorous SF novels for close to a decade now, all of which have looked like fun to me, but Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain is the first one I managed to actually read. It’s the SFnal story of a world-conquering squid from Neptune (a super-genius squid from Neptune) in a…
Okay, we admit it. We are helpless before our addiction. Jack Kirby meets Jim Henson with Kermit as Mister Miracle and Miss Piggy as Big Barda. I presume Oberon is the janitor who cleanes up backstage at The Muppet Show theater. via My Junk Drawer – Miracle Frog and Pig Barda. Commission. 8×10”.
The most impressive science fiction collection in the world— and yes, I say it’s even more impressive than the one at Skywalker Ranch– will be going on the auction block today starting at 12 noon Pacific time, and continuing tomorrow, May 1st, at 11am Pacific time. How impressive is it? Look at that photo to…
ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier COMPLEX 90 By Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins Titan Books 244 pages Available May 2013 Beginning a new year with a new Mike Hammer novel is a cause for jubilant celebration. In his short preface to the book, begun by the late Mickey Spillane, Collins informs us that…