It could’ve just been The Cretins.

Welcome to year four of YA Megamix Summer! This year’s theme is “Class of Soon to be Nuked High” in honor of the the world teetering on the brink of destruction based on the whims of a moldy orange madman. Good luck having a future, enjoy these glib reviews and mixtapes for the next three months and if the country is still here at the end of August, we’ll resume our mental health/horror programming.

 

24. The Night Walkers – Otto Coontz

Way to not end the story, man. Maxine is cured, no one else is, and there’s no resolution beyond blaming the guy who runs the dump for the pollution. Writing is about making choices. When you bring things up, like “the soul” a few times and have Nora the Cassandra thinking that’s the “leg up” they have and then never resolving anything… At 163 pages, you could have added another chapter or two and resolved the story. I expect more of an author that admits to being the puppet and mask maker for the San Francisco Mime Troupe AND being concerned about environmental protection in his bio.

 

Mixtape –

1. A Forest – The Cure

2. The Number of the Beast – Electric Six

3. Home Sick Home – Faith No More

4. Damned If She Do – The Kills

5. Time for Death – GWAR

6. Under My Chin – Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

7. Infected Girls – Electric Six

8. Burning in Hell – Electric Citizen

9. Iron Moon – Chelsea Wolfe

10. The Angry River – The Hat

11. If Wishes Were Horses – Witchcraft

12. My Mule – Abner Jay

13. Sore Eyes – Widowspeak

14. Old Pine Box – Those Poor Bastards

15. Forest Clouds – Windhand

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Duncan was in charge of emotional support while I wrote the outline for Day of the Robots. She didn’t even put that in her bio because it took second fiddle to seeing works from the Louvre at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art in 2009 and almost auditioning for a season of So You Think You Can Dance? in the same day.