RIP Edward Woodward
RIP Edward Woodward. Respectable critics will righly remember you for Breaker Morant, but here in the Gutter we’ll remember you for The Wicker Man, The Equalizer and EastEnders. Obituaries here and here.
Rob Liefield, Scene By Scene
Chris Sims watches The Comic Book Greats: Rob Liefield, in which a 23-year-old Rob Liefield is interviewed by the ever-lovin’ Stan Lee. “[W]hether you think of Liefeld as the dynamic heir to Jack Kirby or the much-deserved punching-bag of the Comics Internet, it makes for a fascinating snapshot […]
Conqueror’s Family Saga
I like massive (and improbable) space battles, and Timothy Zahn’s Conqueror series seemed like just the ticket. Nothing but spaceships in the cover art, always a good sign, and I had memories of lots of space explosions from when I read the series about a dozen years ago. […]
“If Not For Brent Spiner, I’d Be Illiterate
LeVar Burton isn’ t the only bridge between Star Trek and the reading rainbow. Dan at Faust’s Fantastically Fantasmagoric Forum explains how a media tie-in novel, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Metamorphosis transformed him into a reader.
A Matter of Evolution: Monkeys vs. Robots
They’ve been brought together before in James Kolchalka’s Monkey vs. Robot books, by Mecha Kong in King Kong Escapes and Mojo Jojo’s mech-suited machinations in The Powerpuff Girls. Primates and robots each imitate and mock humanity in their own way. When the postapocalyptic future finally overtakes us, will […]
Spectacularly… Bad!
Presenting a flashback to Tattoo Assassin, a rather startlingly awful Mortal Kombat clone.
The Cultural Gutter 