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Heroes Never Rust #82: Epilogues: Your Last Shot
Heroes Never Rust #82 by Sean Ironman Epilogues: Your Last Shot The fourth and final issue of Nemesis features a great deal of violence as the police chief eventually overcomes and kills Nemesis. The villain dies with three pages remaining for the comic. These pages fast-forward years after the Nemesis encounter and acts as an… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #20.1: Another Interlude, This Time Out of Sequence
Shakespearing #20.1 by John King Another Interlude, This Time Out of Sequence A Review of Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s 2015 production of Henry V One of the ironies of the current season of offerings at Orlando Shakespeare Theater is that in the spacious Margeson Theater, Merry Wives features the hijinks of Falstaff in a 1950s domestic… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #29: King Lear
Shakespearing #29 by David Foley King Lear I’ve had a mental block about my Lear posting. I finished reading the play a few weeks ago, wrote two paragraphs, and stalled. It may be because I’ve already written about Lear in this series, or it may be because I began with the claim, “King Lear is… Continue reading
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Episode 140: Marya Hornbacher!
Episode 140 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to the memoirist and novelist Marya Honrbacher, plus J.J. Anselmi reads his personal essay, “Atrophy,” and I offer a tribute to the late Philip Levine. TEXTS DISCUSSED Read Marya… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #77: Street Law
The Curator of Schlock #77 by Jeff Shuster Street Law Franco Nero is ABOVE THE LAW!!! Okay. Back to Vigilante Month: International Edition. This week our journey around the world brings us to Italy, a country that was plagued with more street crime in the 1970s than New York City, if the cinema has anything… Continue reading
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The Lists #17: Reasons to Watch Fifty Shades of Gray
The Lists #17 by John King Reasons to Watch Fifty Shades of Gray You have a personal grudge against one of the cast members. You like to masturbate to Architectural Digest. You hate women. You really hate women. You are really drunk, and bought a ticket to Selma, but ended up in the wrong theater and couldn’t make your… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #81: Personal Taste, or Bad Craft?
Heroes Never Rust #81 by Sean Ironman Personal Taste, or Bad Craft? If it has been unclear in my last two posts, I’ll come right out and say it here—I dislike Nemesis. I think it represents everything wrong with comics in the last ten years. It’s a comic consisting of shock after shock. So many… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #28.1: Four Observations About Othello
Shakespearing #28.1 by John King Four Observations About Othello 1. In Shakespeare is Hard, But So is Life, the Irish theater critic Fintan O’Toole says, If you look at the character of Othello in isolation, and in particular if you look at him through the notion of the “tragic flaw’, then he is not, for all… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #76: Friday the 13th
The Curator of Schlock #76 by Jeff Shuster Friday the 13th (Yeah, this was inevitable) There was some fine print I neglected to look at when I took this job as Curator of Schlock. Any movie reviewed on Friday the 13th must be a Friday the 13th movie or I will be summarily fired, forced… Continue reading
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