LASERBLAST: The Comic
Fact: the no-budget Charles Band movie LASERBLAST (1978) sucks. This comic book adaptation, however, is somewhat interesting
THE MATILDA MURDER HUNTER
This was the tenth novel by Harry Stephen Keeler, and the second longest
GOING PLACES
It’s a rare novel that contains a perfect opening sentence, but this one, in the line “We’re real fuckheads,” does
THE SHADOW AND OTHER STRANGE TALES
A short single author anthology that appears to have been aimed at children
STRANGE OBJECTS
In the midst of near-universal adulation I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I didn’t much care for this novel
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
This, the premiere work of prose fiction by Quentin Tarantino, is in many respects just like his films
THE WATCHER
Yet another example of a book done in, commercially speaking, by poor packaging
THE DAY THE GODS DIED
A third party companion-piece to CHARIOTS OF THE GODS, and a dispatch from an era in which allegedly true revelations of incredible events were popular
BRAINSTORM
A YA novel that has a number of agreeable elements, but is done in by a simplistic treatment.
THE SPECIALIST
Here we have the fictional equivalent of those Nazi-sploitation movies prevalent in the 1970s