ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron FortierTHE WRECKERBy Justin Scott (& Clive Cussler)Berkley Books562 pages Several years ago best selling writer Clive Cussler created a new turn of the century hero in Isaac Bell, an operative for the Van Dorn Detective Agency in the early 1900s. Bell appeared in Cussler’s excellent novel, “The Chase.” It is…
ALL PULP REVIEWS-Book Reviews by Ron Fortier CONAN THE BARBARIAN By Michael StackpoleBerkeley BoulevardMovie Tie-In292 pages It appears you just can’t keep a good barbarian down. Conan the Barbarian is a hero and well known iconic figure in American fantasy. He was created by writer Robert E.Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories…
“Ladies and gentlemen… rock and roll.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw6xesXLIAA With those words thirty years ago today, a revolution came to an industry. The old ways of consuming pop culture weren’t dead, per se, but they were being badly eclipsed by what was coming down the coaxial cable into the home. And although it didn’t happen overnight, the…
ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier BLOOD OF THE REICH By William Dietrich Harper Books 417 pages Available July 2011 ISBN 13 – 978-0-06-198918-6 You realize there are books reviewers are predisposed to like by the title alone. When the good folks at the New York Journal of Books offered to send me this book,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8TNkeHk3Fo In the year 2000, American McGee’s Alice took the story of Alice in Wonderland and turned it on it’s already twisted head. As a sequel of sorts to the books, the game opens with an accidental fire destroying Alice’s home in Victorian London, in which her parents and sister die. Alice then attempts to…
Drawing upon their rich history, Square Enix’s Dissidia 012 [duodecim] places a “Who’s Who” list of well loved characters from their “[[[Final Fantasy]]]” games into a novel setting – a combination of a role-playing game and a fighting game. Any “Final Fantasy” veteran may think about who would win in a fight between Lightning and…
The Wilhelm Scream is a film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums. The effect gained new popularity (its use often becoming an in-joke) after it was used in Star Wars and many other blockbuster films as well as television programs and video games. The scream is often…
Forget your troubles, come on, get happy…You better chase all you cares away… Shout hallelujah, come on, get happy… Get ready for the Judgment Day. According to [[[Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]], Skynet went fully live two days ago on April 19, 2011 and will begin its attack against humanity sometime today, in an attack…
Round 2 of Mix March Madness! Huzzah! To our left… definitively coming first, because Doug Savage beat the eggs… Savage Chickens! And to our right… Matt, Igor, Ken, Carson the Muskrat and the people locked up in John Kovalic’s… Dork Tower! Who will win this game of chicken? Vote now! [poll id=”48″] Polling closes at…
Nothing says “Happy Holidays” like wandering through the deteriorated wasteland that used to be a familiar setting. Decaying and destroyed memories of the past in a post-apocalyptic future. It’s a cozying thought, really…well, if done in a video game and not actually having to live through it yourself, that is. And the games we feature…
At this point, those of you participating in NaGraNoWriMo are halfway there. Congratulations! You have made it past the initial excitement and momentum into the phase where you really have to put the pedal to the metal to keep going. Can you do it? Absolutely! As a NaNoWriMo veteran and someone who keeps daily and…
NOW IN ALL PULP’S SPOTLIGHT…ALL PULP!!!The Spectacled Seven have made their mark, at least with some! This was shared with All Pulp today from a mailing list manned by noted Pulp writer and historian Tom Johnson. Tom and his wife Ginger not only welcomed All Pulp to the Pulp/news game, but gave the Spectacled Seven…
