Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Although the two books being reviewed today are the direct subject, the comic book landscape in the early 90s will be the larger target. Within that already esoteric field, we are going to be talking about one particular design tendency among comic books in the early 90s; guns! Back then, it was...

If you have been reading the blog posts here, especially the last few dozen, you could see a common theme among the books being read and critiqued here. This has already been addressed (probably around the review of the DARPA book by Annie Jacobsen a month or so ago) and it will be addressed...

Although the actual subject of this review is the 2024 TV series production of Shogun, I will be mostly talking about the novel it is based upon. Before we get onto my ramblings about Japan and fiction, I’ll give a summary appraisal of the series (I’ve watched up to episode 8 of 10). The show is...