Chad Eagleton's Blog, page 25

Eclipse Phase

It's been a very long time since a role-playing game has excited me like Eclipse Phase. 

Opposing A Social Order

You Should Be Reading

Kelly Sue DeConnick's Pretty Deadly is one of the best comics around. It's a beautiful, violent, magical realism, manga-fueled spaghetti western. And I'd gladly tattoo Emma Rios's art all over my body.

Bad Vacations Ideas #38

Shell Beach

What To Do With James Bond

I’m a longtime James Bond fan. I vividly remember when Channel 4 made an event out of airing Doctor No. My parents let me stay up late and watch it. After that I was hooked. I checked out all the available films from the library and then quickly moved on to the books.

While the first Bond film I saw in the theatre was Octopussy, my favorite Bonds are Dr. No through On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Connery was great as Bond, I don’t think anyone would dispute that. Lazenby could have been amaz...

Diabolik

In case anyone ever licenses the rights or the Italian publisher decides to do an English language run, I'm throwing my hat in the ring for Diabolik scripts.

Netflix Recommendations

Dark Matter 
Dark Matter is a Canadian science fiction series with a lot of promise for future seasons. Six people wake up abroad a spaceship with no memory of who they are. They name themselves One through Six, the order in which they woke from cryo-sleep, then set about solving the mystery of themselves. The cast is solid. I mean, if you’ve watched any science fiction or horror television in the last 5 years, you will recognize faces. And the creative team is just as polished; most of t...

Today's Political Post

Association Fallacy

The “Nazis were socialists” bunk started circulating again. First, this is a probably just a natural response for the right to take, based on the left’s insistence on calling everything we don’t like “fascist”. Honestly, this bit of anti-socialist propaganda is probably a sign of real momentum toward actual economic and social progress for all peoples. The opposition has nothing left but to play the dumb Nazi comparison. Association fallacy is often the weapon of the desperate and lazy mind....

Bat-Cow

I love Grant Morrison. The Invisibles had a huge, huge impact on me. But this panel from Batman & Robin makes me ridiculously happy. It's Morrison summed up for me: meaningful, aware, and yet a little absurd in a totally meta way.