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Tip of the Hat: The Arlo Finch Experience
Occasionally, there's something that comes along that simply reminds you of the joy of fandom. The execution may not be perfect, but it's nevertheless touching, or thought-provoking, or simply fun....
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Microreview [film]: The Ritual
Adam Nevill’s novel The Ritual is one of the few recent horror books to genuinely scare me as I read it, so when I saw that Netflix had done a film of it I was both excited and nervous. By nervous, I...
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Altered Carbon Episodes 4-6
Now we're getting into the meat of the story. Kovacs is still trying to solve the murder of Laurens Bancroft, but now he's also trying to solve the sleeve-murder of Lizzie Elliot--part of a deal Kovacs...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Today's news cycle is extremely difficult to keep up with, but early in the week James Gunn dropped a bombshell of a story with a single tweet. When Groot shields his fellow Guardians in Guardians of...
View ArticleMy Favorite Stories May Still Be Undiscovered
It is not much of a secret around these parts that I love the Hugo Awards (and that was before Nerds of a Feather was a finalist for Best Fanzine last year!), but astute friends of the Feather will...
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SIDE QUESTS: Fonts and Typefaces!
Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together. The name kind of says it all. Collectively, we share a love of science fiction, fantasy, and horror — and the tendrils that both braid those together and...
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HORROR 101: Enclosed versus Exposed
Horror often comes divided into two categories in my mind: Personal Vs. Global. Within these two categories, the horror is then again divided into two sets: Enclosed Vs. Exposed. In the first category...
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SIDE QUESTS: M*A*S*H
I'm not sure, when my parents let me stay up past 8:00 p.m. for the first time to watch a show about a medical unit in the Korean War, they meant for it to have any profound effect on me. Or perhaps...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
We did some rearranging at my house over the weekend and some purging of old items and it got me thinking about some of my older comics that I haven't read in ages. Part of the purge involved taking...
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SIDE QUESTS: Synthesizers, A Love Story
Today's episode of SIDE QUESTS is more than a little personal. That's right, it's about my favorite inanimate objects: synthesizers! Â - GWhat Are We Talking About?A synthesizer is an electronic...
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Microreview [book]: Dayfall by Michael David Ares
Close the Shades, Stay InsideDayfall takes place in too-near-future New York City. After nuclear war has put a permanent cloud over the city, the weather is about to improve and "Dayfall", the first...
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Emerald City Comic Con
It is undisputed scientific fact that Seattle is the greatest city in the world, and home to the greatest Comic Con in the world, and least in my very scientific study of only having attended ECCC. OK,...
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Microreview [TV series]: The Frankenstein Chronicles
They’ve squared the circle! Sean Bean's character shuffles off his mortal coal…yet is alive again for Season Two?!?Doesn't Sean Bean look vaguely surprised to be still alive? Him and me both!Both...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Only two comics on my pull-list this week means that it is the perfect time to attempt my addition of reviewing one older comic per week. For the debut of this feature I am going to review the classic...
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NERD MUSIC: Science Fiction/Synthwave Pairings
Way back in 2013, in the midst of a serious heavy metal binge, I posted this piece. The idea was to match metal albums to grimdark fantasy novels, the way you'd match wine or beer with food. So now, in...
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Microreview [book]: Dark State, by Charles Stross
Return to the multiverse. My experience of reading Charles Stross is a persistent struggle between the quality of his ideas and my perception of the quality of his writing, which is to say that I...
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Microreview [video game]: Dark Souls 3 by From Software (developer)
Hard But No DiamondA short while ago, I'd committed to ignoring games described as inspired by Dark Souls. I'd played some Dark Souls and didn't enjoy it much, played some Dark Souls inspired games...
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Microreview [film]: Mute, directed by Duncan Jones
A Gorgeous Onion!Jones, Duncan. Mute. 2018'Tis available worldwide (only?) on Netflix, as of 2018.The name 'Duncan Jones' will immediately evoke, in the minds of the small but powerful(ly voiced) group...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Quick break from comics to direct you to an amazing Kickstarter that you need to back immediately! Dinosaur Island is getting a water expansion and a new two player game named Duelosaur Island!!! If...
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Microreview [book]: The Warrior Within by Angus McIntyre
A Quick Trip Down the RoadThree men cross the wastelands to a strip town along the Road. They've come to kill a woman. The only person seemingly in their way is unofficial mayor Karsman. Officially Not...
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