Monthly Archives: February 2008

Endymion’s revenge: the moon’s bright eye is shut, and on its ashen lid I see red shadows lie.

My flashfic “Brother Solson and Sister Luna” has gone live at Every Day Fiction. It’s a vampire story, and a non-Morlock story. The specific genesis was seeing I Am Legend this winter and thinking, “This is impossible. The vampire-zombie-whatevers have … Continue reading →

Oh, pus and blasphemation! Steve Gerber’s dead. Among other things, he created the beyond-brilliant comic Howard the Duck (known today largely as the basis of George Lucas’ worst movie–yes even worse than Episode I, a truly epic standard of awfulness). … Continue reading →

The other morning, I was watching the previews for Spider-Man 10. (The logo for the movie is, of course, a very webby Roman numeral X.) I’m happy to report that, despite its somewhat schlocky tagline (“Spider-Man Vs. King Kong!”), the … Continue reading →