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The Social Satire of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

    I consider Deus Ex to be one of the more thoughtful and intelligent series around. The original game tackled such diverse issues as transhumanism, anti-terrorism as an excuse for government support of business, and solutions for failed systems ranging from more control to complete anarchy. Human Revolution continued this discussion with intelligent questions about false religious movements in the service of corporate interests as well as augmentation as symbolic of privileg...

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided review

    I've been hesitating to do my review of this game for a long time because of a number of reasons: 1. It was a gift from my wife for my birthday. 2. I really-really love Deus Ex. However, just as Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was a beautiful spiritual successor to the original Deus Ex, this basically feels like a redux of the singular disaster that was Deus Ex 2: Invisible War. Actually, no, Deus Ex: Invisible War had a beginning, middle, and end. This just has a beginning and th...

2017 Writing Update

Hey folks,

    It's 2017 and I'm happy to report that sales are going wonderfully for my existing books. Sales were particularly good for Cthulhu Armageddon and The Supervillainy Saga. There were a few works which didn't work out very well but you win some and you lose some in writing. So, what are we having for 2017? Allow me to tell you.

Cthulhu Armageddon II: The Tower of Zhaal 

    Cthulhu Armageddon is a work which I am particularly proud of. John Henry Bo...

Dishonored 2 review

    Dishonored is one of my favorite games of all time. It is an update of everything I loved about the Thief games but with an even richer steampunk setting. I loved the character of Corvo Attano, even if he couldn't speak, and was emotionally invested in his desire to save his daughter Emily. The dark and rat-infested Georgian nightmare of Dunwall combined the Black Death with the worst of the Industrial Revolution. In short, I was all for Dishonored 2 and eager to see what A...

Dishonored: The Corroded Man review

    I'm rather wary of video game fiction as a general rule. Not because I don't want to give it a try but because so much of it is a shameless cash-in. There's exceptions, mind you, but they tend to be diamonds in the rough. Nevertheless, I wanted to give this work a try and see if it was better than the forgettable Wyrmwood Deceit comic book. I'm a huge Dishonored fan so I was hoping Adam Christopher would do a great job. Did he? Well, he did an entertaining job, which was be...

Star Wars: Dark Disciple review

 
   Yeah, I don't know how to summarize my opinions on this book. I don't want to to insult Christie Golden as I absolutely adore her and still consider her novel, Arthas, one of my all-time favorite novels. Certainly, she can do romance since I found the Jaina Proudmoore/Arthas Menethil romance to be one of my favorite in the World of Warcraft universe. But this? Well, I just didn't like it.

    Before we begin, I should also mention this book isn't like Star War...

The Science of Supervillainy is done!

Hey folks!

Great news, I'm pleased to say THE SCIENCE OF SUPERVILLAINY has been completed! Gary Karkofsky's latest adventure has been sent to my publishers for editing and hopefully, we'll be able to get a simultaneous audiobook and ebook release sometime in March of 2017.

Gary Karkofsky a.k.a Merciless: The Supervillain without MercyTM finally tracks down and faces President Omega after having had his life ruined by the time-traveling Chief of State. Unfortunately, defeating his nemesis turns...

Star Wars: Rogue One review

    So, what did I think of Rogue One? Well, it was pretty good. This is one of those movies I suspect I'm going to feel like a traitor to my class (Star Wars nerds) and religion (I'm a theistic Christian Jedi) for having mixed feelings on. It was really-really good in many places but also didn't fill me with the kind of overwhelming joy I got from the other installments of the series.

    Indeed, if I had to rank the movies, I'd say this is probably the single m...

I Did Not Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence review

    The Please Don't Tell My Parents series is a series I have declared to be the Supervillainy Saga's. This, despite the fact mine are R-rated superhero camp stories and they're well, PG superhero camp stories. See? Completely different! Despite this, I'm going to say I think they're probably the best superhero series I'm presently reading. Yes, even better than Wearing the Cape and more enjoyable than Brandon Sanderson's The Reckoners. Why? Because, really, these are some com...

Team-Ups and Crossovers review

    I am a huge fan of Marion G. Harmon's Wearing the Cape series and it was actually a major influence on my Supervillainy Saga books. Before Supergirl was on television, I was a huge fan of the character and felt she was overlooked. So fiction starring a Supergirl-alike ala Hope Corrigan was something I eagerly devoured. I've been a bit back and forth about the past couple of volumes because the forward momentum seemed a bit stalled.

    I was really hoping we'd...