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The Last of Us season two review

    THE LAST OF US season two was...okay.

    If that sounds like I'm soft pedaling the opening to a negative review, well, then you are extremely perceptive. The Last of Us season one was one of the best, if not the best, video game adaptations of all time. The only real competition I would say it has is the Fallout show and that is an entirely different genre despite them both being post-apocalypse science fiction programs. It was immensely popular for a reason and introduced a whole new audien...

The Return of Supervillainy is now available on Kindle

THE RETURN OF SUPERVILLAINY (Supervillainy Saga #10) is now out! The latest installment of the fantastic superhero parody series takes our protagonist against a superhuman supremacist, an insane tech bro, and his own past.

THE RETURN OF SUPERVILLAINY

"Gary’s back. Tell a friend.”

Gary Karkofsky AKA Merciless: The Supervillain without MercyTM has managed to fall into a comfortable routine as the (acting) Supreme Archmage of Earth. More hero than villain these days, he’s recruited to a shadowy black...

Thunderbolts (2025) review

 
    THUNDERBOLTS (2025) is a movie that I was looking forward to a lot more than a lot of other Marvel Cinematic Universe fans. I enjoyed the original Thunderbolts comics with Baron Zemo, Hawkeye, Songbird, Mach IV, Moonstone, and others. I also really enjoyed the Black Widow movie that was an underrated gem of the “original” Avengers era. I also am one of the people who really does love goofy antiheroes doing goofy superhero-adjacent stuff as anyone who has read my Supervillainy Saga bo...

Two United States of Monsters novels planned for 2025

 
I have two more United States of Monsters books planned for this year: QUEEN OF BLOOD which is the backstory of Ashura (as well as New Detroit's vampires as a whole) and follows up Brighteyes' ending and VWA AND POSSE which will be Peter getting suckered (no pun intended) into becoming an assassin of the European Vampire League's King.

A lot of people wonder why I combined all of my books into one series but it's really because of two reasons. 1] Because a lot of people never got all the many co...

The Supervillainy Saga is on sale for $1.49 on April 26th

Hey, folks, 

I have a Kindle Daily Deal and I thought I'd share it. THE SUPERVILLAINY SAGA 1-6 is on sale for $1.49 today. Which is pretty much 6 books for twenty cents each. It's a hilarious series that makes fun of every trope imaginable and shows why none of us would do well as capes or cowls. 

Available here

Daredevil: Born Again review

    DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN is a fascinating story both in-universe and out. Out of universe, it is an attempt to regain a lot of lost Marvel fandom that got themselves abandoned as the television shows were declared non-canon only for Disney to pivot to Disney+ after Endgame. In-universe, it is the story of a demagogue seizing power via imagined problems and destroying democracy in the process.

    Daredevil: Born Again had a massive crazy behind-the-scenes story that can basically be summa...

The Tomb of Dragons (Cemeteries of Amalo #3) by Katherine Addison

 
    THE TOMB OF DRAGONS (The Chronicles of Osreth #4, The Cemeteries of Amalo #3) by Katherine Addison is her fourth book in the steampunk fantasy world of Osreth as well as third following the adventures of Thara Celehar, Witness of the Dead. I admit, I miss Maia from THE GOBLIN EMPEROR but I have come to treasure my experiences with Thara. He is a rare kind of protagonist in that he is older, a gay, nonconfrontational. and a figure who uses his words far more than he ever does his fists...

Old School Evil by Brian Cave review

    OLD SCHOOL EVIL by Brian Cave is the first novel of a series of dark comedy superhero novels. It is a simultaneous homage to Eighties Saturday Morning cartoon, a lamentation about the downsides to aging, and also a goofy coming of age story for a ragtag band of misfits. As a man who reads almost exclusively indie books these days, it’s definitely a labor of love that zigs when a lot of other books zag.

    The premise is that the majority of supervillains from the Eighties have been ca...

Kraven: The Hunter (2024) review

 
    KRAVEN: THE HUNTER is a perfectly cromulent movie. It is a film that is not nearly as bad as MORBIUS or MADAME WEB. It is a film. It has a three act structure. There are characters within it. There is (sort of) character development. They have conflicts. Conflicts that are resolved. There is action (of a sort). It is truly, yes, a film. If you think I am struggling for things to say, you would also be right.

    This film is incredibly rote, paint by the numbers, and not even so bad t...

Companion (2025) review

     Companion (2025) was a film I was back and forth reviewing due to being a science fiction black comedy. If I had to define its genre, I’d say it’s cyberpunk lite. A story that could basically be summarized as “What if Blade Runner starred the machines and had really stupid people after them?” Despite the comedic elements or perhaps because of them, Companion deals with a lot of incredibly dark subject matter and touches on numerous themes of both technology as well as socialization.

    I...