Clive Cussler is an author of over 50 books, many of which have made it on the New York Times bestsellers list, but when it comes to translating them to the big screen things have not gone so well. Dirk Pitt, the hero of most of Cussler’s sea adventures, seems a natural candidate for a…
When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace – Anime Review
Imagine this setup; you and a small group of friends gain super powers one day, without explanation or seeming cause. I’d bet that any one of thousands of examples came to your mind, whether it is from the comics universe, the movie universe, the tv universe, etc, etc, etc, so the whole idea has been…
Podcast Central: Smodcast
I have about an hour commute to work each day, and it becomes very easy to get sick of the “music” on the radio. Some folks enjoy listening to audiobooks on their travels, my salvation from the top 40 crapfest is Podcasts! I recently had an acquaintance ask me what a podcast was, and…
The Lad and the Lion: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Lad and the Lion is an interesting book as it not only tells the adventures stories of a young man with a lion but a parallel story about a small European country struggling with revolution, but strangely neither story has much impact on the other. Written in 1914 and first appearing as a three…
The Many Faces of The Incredible Hulk
In 1962 Marvel’s creative giants Stan Lee and Jack Kirby brought the world The Incredible Hulk a story owing much to Lee’s love of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and as Ben Grimm’s orange monstrous form in Lee and Kirby’s Fantastic Four comic was so…