#slasher #moviereview 1990's HARDWARE--Richard Stanley continues to impress me. Stylish & engrossing
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Reading
The prose is fine, aside from unnatural dialogue, but the basic premise is deeply flawed. We are never even given a hint what the photograph is. Either the author couldn't think of something or didn't think we'd care, and the MC is both nameless and never described.
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"Easy Out," a brand-new Sam Harrigan story by @BrandonBarrows is in issue 17, the detective annual!
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"...thoughts of unresolved issues weighed upon me. I thought moving away would put those thoughts to rest. It did not."
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#horror #moviereview 1991's HIGHWAY TO HELL--Has its moments, but doesn't quite gel.
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Vanguard, a webcomic I've been making over the course of 15 years, starts it's final issue this Friday!
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Reading
Unlike yesterday's, the prose is fine, but the structure is annoying. Each chapter a different character's first person POV as if being interviewed by the author.
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"...thoughts of unresolved issues weighed upon me. I thought moving away would put those thoughts to rest. It did not."
Read "The Night Sammy Got Made--Dead" by Nick Di Carlo!
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#horror #moviereview 1992's DUST DEVIL--Literally like no other movie I've seen. I loved it.
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Reading
This is not the best Colby. It starts off fairly strong, then meanders and is padded out with POV chapters for secondary characters that add little. As Colby was primarily a short story writer, I strongly suspect this was a story hos agent asked him to expand.
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Classic crime fiction
#4 in Sterling's Ben Pedley, mystery-solving fire marshal series. They're good mysteries, but I never get over the bizarre way Pedley talks. It takes a bit away from the suspension of disbelief.

















