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Movie Review: A Sound of Thunder Thursday April 20, 2006
In 8th grade I read Ray Bradbury's short story "A Sound of Thunder." I loved it. Last night I rented the big-screen adaptation and watched it with Sandra. It was nice to make fun of, but the punch of the original story was gone. Also, the effects were very 1993.… Read more
A Casual, Hacked Review of XCOM 2 Monday March 14, 2016
I have loved XCOM 2, but not unconditionally. There are some things you should know when you consider my review: I’m a “hardcore casual” gamer. I will spend dozens of hours exploring all the corners of a game, but only if it doesn’t abuse me with unrelenting punishment and frustration for… Read more
Blógünder Schlock Sunday January 15, 2006
Well, the "Minor Technical Matter" remains unresolved, but as a stopgap measure I've found a way to stick summarized blog content here underneath Schlock Mercenary while providing links to full articles. The site is still under construction, but it's good enough for the girls I dance with. Ladies and gentlemen,… Read more
DVD Review: Doom Tuesday February 21, 2006
For some reason I've had a hankering to see Doom for a while now. Last night I rented it via RedBox, and while it's certainly not great cinema, I enjoyed it a lot. I've played the game on which the movie is (probably very loosely) based, but not all the… Read more
Book Review: Mad Mike's Sniper series Thursday June 29, 2006
Let's get the obligatory disclaimers out of the way. Michael Z. Williamson is a friend of mine, and I'm happy to count him as such. He is a fan of Schlock Mercenary, and I am a fan of his work. Recently (well... Penguicon, so maybe not so recently) Mike handed… Read more
Movie Review: The Day The Earth Stood Still Saturday December 13, 2008
I had a great time at the movie with Richard and all our friends from GWAVA, Grouplink, Omni, Brainstorm, and of course Novell. About twenty Schlockers showed up, too, but there's a healthy chunk of those IT guys reading the strip as well. It was quite the party. The movie… Read more
Avengers: Endgame Thursday April 25, 2019
As promised, here is my spoiler-free review. 1) I really liked it. 2) It clears my Threshold of Awesome 3) It retroactively boosted my enjoyment of Avengers: Infinity War. I’ll say more later. I do think you should make time to see this in theaters soon, because being part of… Read more
Book Review: A Practical Guide to Dragons, by Lisa Trumbauer Friday February 23, 2007
If you're a D&D fan with kids, you need this book. I mean, you can't be letting your kids read the monster manual, even though they really want to, because they're not supposed to know how many hit dice that beholder has, right? A Practical Guide to Dragons is perfect… Read more
My Buddy Bob Writes Role-Playing Games Saturday July 29, 2006
I've been meaning to plug the excellent RPG work of Robert J. Defendi for, like, EVER. I keep meaning to, and then keep not doing it. I played a demo back in February, and I blogged it, but then I posted an auction and it slipped below the fold. Well,… Read more
DVD Review: Dungeons and Dragons Gets a Sequel Thursday February 23, 2006
It used to be that a successful film would get optioned for a sequel, and that "two" movies (sequels) were ALWAYS worse than what came before. There have been exceptions. Spider Man 2, X-Men 2, and Toy Story 2 were all roundly decreed by critics and audiences alike to have… Read more
Book Review: Better to Beg Forgiveness Friday December 21, 2007
Okay, I love Michael Z. Williamson's heroes. They're tough, they're flawed, and when they break stuff it stays broke. When I saw that the title of his latest was Better to Beg Forgiveness I figured I was in for a great ride. I was right. But before I gush: I… Read more
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Friday December 15, 2017
There has been quite a bit of noise on social media regarding the spoiler content in reviews of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, so I’ll be even less specific than I usually am when reviewing things that might easily be spoiled. I saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Yay! Good Star Wars… Read more
There Won’t Be Spoilers Wednesday April 24, 2019
I’ll be seeing Avengers: Endgame on Friday morning. My review will be pretty basic. I’ll let you know if I liked it, and I’ll tell you whether or not it boosts my Infinity War review back up over my Threshold of Awesome. That’s it. I won’t be saying anything about who does what,… Read more
Scott Pilgrim vs. The Expendables vs. Dayquil Friday August 13, 2010
You deserve a better movie reviewer than me. On days when I'm so dopey from cold medicine that I don't trust myself to write Schlock Mercenary scripts I probably shouldn't trust myself to give advice to movie-goers. A better reviewer would take the day off. Me? I'm not afraid to… Read more
Book Review: Jack Knife, by Virginia Baker Thursday February 22, 2007
I saw a familiar face at LTUE, but was having a hard time placing it. You know how that is, when you bump into somebody from (for instance) the comic-book store while you're seeing an off-Broadway show? Virginia Baker worked with me at Novell, and I recall a couple of… Read more
DVD Review: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Saturday March 11, 2006
We rented Tim Burton's Corpse Bride a while back, and loved it. I'd already seen it in the theaters, but it was worth seeing again... this time with the kids. Burton's work is always hard to categorize, but it always has elements to it that say "Tim Burton did this."… Read more
Sketching is About Half Done Friday February 8, 2019
I’m about half-way finished with the book sketching—a little over half of the Delegates And Delegation books are sketched, and a little under half of the Broken Wind books are sketched. I had a super-productive session Monday evening (Feb 4th), sketching in over 200 books over the course of about seven hours. Sessions… Read more
Live-Tweeting an Unwatchable Movie Wednesday September 28, 2016
Technically Raiders of the Lost Shark isn’t actually unwatchable. K.B. Spangler and I did watch it, after all. We shouldn’t have. It’s not “so bad it’s funny” or “so bad it’s good.” It’s “so bad I can’t imagine how it happened.” Anyway, we live-tweeted our viewing, and then K.B. posted… Read more
Book Review: Boundary, by Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor Saturday February 25, 2006
I just finished taking a vacation day. I decided to read a book -- Boundary, by Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor. I couldn't resist. It had a picture on the front of dinosaurs fighting over a crashed spacecraft. This was my kind of story: Hard science-fiction, Heroes-and-Heroines, and a Happy… Read more
I have my Ultraviolet tix... Friday March 3, 2006
I'll be seeing the first local showing of Ultraviolet Friday morning. I'll then swiftly proceed to Dragon's Keep and write y'all a review. I've been paying as little attention as possible to the previews, and NO attention to whatever industry buzz there may be surrounding the film. Is it a… Read more