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What is the deal with Uwe Boll?

Reviewing the Weird Al Biopic Several Years too late

A Review of The Great When

Alan Moore is the greatest English language writer of the last century. Pause for a second to hear the gasps of horror and revulsion from the audience. A comic book writer? Ghastly!   This is a review of The Great When, the first book of Alan Moore’s Long London series of fantas... Continue reading

The Worst Episodes of Classic Star Trek (TOS-Enterprise)

Star Trek is a sweeping franchise with over a thousand episodes spread out over sixty years. It contains some of the best science fiction ever put to film, but there’s bound to be some clunkers in any artistic creation of that size. Trekkies tend to take this franchise very, very seriously... Continue reading

Modern Star Trek is perfectly cromulent

We seem to be nearing the end of the current period of Star Trek. Star Trek Academy has been cut off with season two, Strange New Worlds has one truncated season left and after that? It doesn’t seem like Paramount has any other Star Trek coming along. Discovery is already gone, and mercifu... Continue reading

Batman created by Bill Finger

The Labor History of Comics #3: Batman created by Bill Finger   Batman is probably the most successful comic book character in history. He debuted in Detective Comics #27 and very soon afterwards joined the ranks of Superman, with adaptations into adventure serials, radio plays, cartoons,... Continue reading

Is Star Trek Academy good?

So it’s time to inaugurate a new Star Trek series into the canon. Welcome, Starfleet Academy. Welcome to hell!   A lot of Star Trek fans are really up in arms about the theme and premise. For the most part, Star Trek fans will hate anything new. Trekkies hated The Next Generatio... Continue reading

The AI Hater's Manifesto

I love honest slop, garbage content slapped together by weirdos with asinine obsessions that don’t make any sense. I love art without any artistic merit. Movies about pew pew lasers and giant robots fighting kaiju. Books “written” by actors about their iconic characters... Continue reading

Refugees from Utopia

Hard Rock Zombies (1985): Trigger Warning; Nazis, the Holocaust & Hair Metal

This is a serious trigger warning. This movie involves Nazis, Hitler, the Holocaust, pedophilia and Hair Metal. None of these are jokes.   Hard Rock Zombies is a real monument to “why the fuck would you do that” filmmaking. It follows a hair metal band fronted by a ped... Continue reading

October Update

Greetings pals, I just wanted to give an update on what I’ve been working on.   In a typical year June tends to be very busy for me, but for whatever reason work hasn’t slowed down since then. It’s fine. I’ve been neck deep in community organizing s... Continue reading

The Federation is Not a Utopia

The United Federation of Planets from Star Trek is often described as a post-scarcity communist utopia. Gene “Big Rod” Roddenberry spent the later period of his career congratulating himself for the progressive nature of Star Trek, and he even started to inculcate later version o... Continue reading

A People's History of Adult Video Games

From the second time man dipped his finger into a mix of rendered fat and red ocher he has drawn a circle with a dot inside it in imitation of a breast. From the second time man shaped clay figurines he has made bodacious milfs with big boobs and huge hips. When a new communications technology is in... Continue reading

July Update

Currently I have two projects I’m working on. I’ve spent a lot of time writing in the last month to decompress from all the hi-jinks I got up to during June.   I am extraordinarily close to the end of the first draft of Refugees from Utopia. It’s the sequel t... Continue reading

Superman (2025) is the best Superman movie. Fight me.

I think the Superman franchise of movies has averaged out to being mostly bad. While fans adore the Richard Donner Superman flicks and there are many fans of the Zach Snyder derived version of the character, Superman (2025) blows them both out of the water.   The latest Superman film synt... Continue reading

We Protect Us

At the start of June Jonathan Joss, the indigenous actor who played John Redcorn on King of the Hill and Ken Hotate on Parks and Rec returned to the site of his former home, destroyed in a fire with his husband. He discovered the remains of a beloved dog and while mourning with his husband an assail... Continue reading

There was a police riot at the Straight Pride Parade

This essay was originally published in the Boston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America Political Education Blog soon after the Straight Pride Parade in 2019. It is presented with minor edits as befits this format. * * * Straight Pride is Hate Pride was a peaceful protest marred by repe... Continue reading

In Defense of Star Trek V: The One Where The Gang Kills God

In Star Trek fandom it is accepted that Star Trek V is the “bad” one. The odd numbered movies were all dogs while the even numbered movies are all cinematic successes. It was directed by William Shatner because of a most-favored-nations clause in his contract, the Leonard Nimoy d... Continue reading

For All Mankind: Hey Lois, remember that time Russia won the space race?

For All Mankind is an alternative history science fiction series created by beloved Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica alum Ronald D. Moore following an alternate history where the Soviets landed Alexei Leonov successfully on the moon before Apollo 11 and this caused the space race to continue indef... Continue reading

The Death of Siegel and Shuster

Faster than a speeding bullet; more powerful than a locomotive, able to make Warner Brothers mountains of money in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane, it’s Superman! Yes, it’s Superman, strange visitor from another... Continue reading

Neal Adams was the last, best hope to organize comics and he was insane

Neal Adams is remembered as the classic artist who created Ra’s Al Ghul and drew the fan favorite Green Lantern/Green Arrow social commentary comics of the 70’s. Neal Adams is remembered as a deranged crank who believed the center of the Earth was a portal to some unknown source ... Continue reading

ACAB includes Gene Roddenberry

How One Man Took Credit for Star Trek "He wanted to put a gigantic codpiece on the Ferengi," Wright stated. "He spent 25 minutes explaining to me all the sexual positions the Ferengi could go through. I finally said, 'Gene, this is a family show, on at 7:00 on Saturdays. He fina... Continue reading

February 2025 Update

This has been a hell of a month. There’s a lot going on in the world and, well, if you know me you know what I’ve been up to. But to decompress I have actually squeezed away some time to work on my various projects. I’ve made a lot of progress on the first draft of Ref... Continue reading

Somehow, Star Trek: Section 31 isn’t the worst movie the franchise has ever produced.

Star Trek is a TV franchise and it’s cinematic adaptations are profoundly hit or miss. I find that the original series movies-that is to say the first six movies, mostly work because they adapt a general type of episode you would see in the series: the ponderous new age gibberish episode t... Continue reading

This weird sex comedy you've never heard of is a mess [Pervirella (1997)]

Pervirella is a 1997 British steampunk sex comedy exploitation film. Usually, bad comedies make the worst bad movies overall. Humor ages like milk, and failed attempts at comedy ferment into something even worse. Most of the intended jokes in Pervirella fail to land, but the movie puts so much effor... Continue reading

The Project Hopper - January 2025

Dissidents of Utopia  This month I finally released the ebook version of Dissidents of Utopia. I've already been hard at work at the sequel, Refugees From Utopia and have about 50% of a first draft. I have been noodling around with some ideas for videos related to DOU but have nothing... Continue reading