Originally Published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, February-March 2016. This is not a review of Marvel’s Jessica Jones miniseries on Netflix. It begins there but heads other places. If you insist, I will establish right away that the comic book it comes from, Alias, is one of my all-time favorites, that I think the miniseries […]
For the life of me, I will never ever understand the whiny male bitches who get upset at female protagonists in action movies. And I’m not speaking from the point of view of ideology. I’m speaking as a lover of stories, a guy who both produces and consumes them. When Laurie Strode proved the one […]
Letter enclosed with a signed copy of the first Gustav Gloom novel sent to a young fan who had a slow start reading but was able to claim that book as the first… novel she had ever finished and loved. Dear ___________: Your teacher has told me that you loved the first Gustav Gloom book […]