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Tag Archives: pulp
Andersen Gabrych and Brad Rader’s Fogtown
Joseph Thompson wrote this review for Sleeping Hedgehog. Pulp fiction and pork rinds have a lot in common. Both leave one feeling a bit greasy after consuming. They are neither the healthiest part of a regular diet nor the terror … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Graphic Literature
Tagged comics, pulp
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Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
This review was written by Rebecca Scott. The hype began months ago. The first I knew of it was the full-page ads in my monthly comics. Then I caught the teaser on Apple’s site. The concept caught me immediately: a … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged adventure, pulp, science fiction
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Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
I’m not sure when or where I first ran across Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, but it has become one of my favorite “something to watch when I’m just up for some light entertainment” movies. (This is not … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged adventure, pulp, science fiction
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Ray Bradbury’s Death Is a Lonely Business
Craig Clarke penned this review. In 1985, over twenty years since the publication of his last full-length work, 1962’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury reentered the novel-writing world with the release of Death is a Lonely Business, his foray into a … Continue reading
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Tagged noir, pulp, Ray Bradbury
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Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and Alberto Ponticelli’s Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E.: Volume 1: War of The Monsters / Volume 2: Secrets of The Dead
When DC created the first wave of what they called the “The New 52!”, they mined the more obscure corners of their character archives to find properties interesting enough to be worthy of their own title. Now I’ll admit that … Continue reading
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Tagged DC Comics, pulp, science fiction
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David Barbour and Richard Raleigh’s Shadows Bend
Imagine, if you will, Conan the Barbarian taking on Cthulhu and its inhuman minions, with the fate of the world at stake. Quite an image, isn’t it? Admittedly, it does sound like something you’d find in a straight-to-video movie, or … Continue reading