A Normie Looks at Sci-Fi
Happy Tax Day. Here’s hoping you’ve got a nice cushion to sit down on now that Uncle Sam is done having his way with you. If you have watched any Devon Stacks’ analyses of the Hollywood machine, then you probably view everything that trickles out of Big Media in a...
Flying Sparks – All the Cool Kids are Doing It
It’s this new comic on the streets where you read it and feel adventurous but wake up the next morning and find out you’ve been romance comicked and you don’t even mind. I speak in memes now. Only in memes. My comic to-be-read pile is looking a little thin...
Drik Gently Season Two – The Shark Jump
This review is spoiler free, which if you’ve seen the show is a feat given that mentioning pretty much anything that happens in the show will spoil some surprises. The first season of Dirk Gently felt like an early David Tennant Doctor Who replacement. It had the same wide-open...
Gun Ghoul
Happy Ides of March, everybody. Watch your backs! Back in December I took the Arkhaven Comics then new online book store for a test drive. Wil Caligan’s Gun Ghoul showed up in plenty of time, but personal events made reading a comic centered on death and justice too painful. Still,...
Do We Need God To Be Good?
Top comment by Gangiblob Flankis: “I confess it took me a while to remove the impression that a cocky and worldly space-mercenary was narrating.”...
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
The Dirk Gently books never did anything for me. Too twee. Too “LOL so random”. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency represents one of those rare achievements where an American film company takes a foreign property, lets the executives demand changes to appease what they think the normies want, and...
A Sniper’s War
Up for some pro-Russian propaganda? I got a flick for you. Be warned, though. It’s half cool, half head-slapper. A Sniper’s War presents the story of Deki, a Serbian who enlists in the Russian backed “Ukrainian Separatist” movement that sprung up in the district between Ukraine proper and Russia...
Corrosion: Just A Taste
The first 80 minutes are free, but they tell a complete story from start to finish. Reading this audio book the first time was a real pleasure – I’d already bought and read it before the call came down – and I like to think that my reading adds a little...
New Look Audio
The Audio Page here at the House Of Jon needed some attention. Changes in the Castalia House sales process, and the publication of three new audiobooks in the Quantum Mortis Universe, made it necessary to do some quality control. That’s a mighty fine looking shelf if I do say so myself....
Ember War, Issue #3
The third installment of Richard Fox’s “Ember War Saga”, adapted for comics by Jon Del Arroz and Jethro Morales, dropped for backers earlier this week, and the fun factor continues to ramp up. One minor complaint about this issue is the lack of a splash page with a couple of “the...