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SUPERVERSIVE: Ultra Sun, Uranium, and the Quest for the Perfect Pokemon Game
Wednesday , 30, January 2019 Superversive 9 CommentsI’ve thought deeply for awhile of how to approach this article. So it’ll be a bit long, but hopefully you’ll find it interesting. I’ll be going forward with the assumption that everyone knows the basic core concepts behind the pokemon franchise. And hey, even if you, specifically, don’t, I know the audience is out there. […]
Four Anime Reviews is one of the most popular posts I’ve ever done on the site. Since then I have watched a lot – and I do mean a LOT – more anime, and enjoyed almost all of it (I will only actually watch something to the end that I enjoy). In light of that, […]
New Release Roundup, 27 October 2018: Fantasy and Adventure
Saturday , 27, October 2018 Just Released Leave a commentSuperheroes, ghostly tales, Dwarven Slayers, soldiers, and Tolkien’s Great Tales feature in this week’s roundup of the newest releases in fantasy and adventure. Anthony Bourdain’s Hungry Ghosts – Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles–where each […]
Sensor Sweep: D&D Community, Light novels, Zoe Quinn Comics, 1940
Monday , 11, June 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsRPG (RPG Pundit): So my cat got in the way of my latest video; but the overall point is still clear (and slightly cuter, thanks to the cat): there’s no such thing as a real “D&D Community”. There’s a D&D Hobby, but the notion of a “Community” is a combination of a marketing tactic by […]
SUPERVERSIVE: Mumen Rider is the key to “One Punch Man”
Tuesday , 5, June 2018 Superversive 5 CommentsI recently watched “One Punch Man”, an excellent new(ish) comedy/superhero anime that you can currently find on Netflix (though only in sub, which may matter to some people, though I still liked it). It’s a very good show, funny, clever, amazingly well animated and with an absolutely stellar soundtrack, probably my second favorite in an […]
I have a few articles on the backburner (the ones getting the most attention from me now are articles on how “My Hero Academia” creates a consistent set of rules for its fantasy world and one on why I believe there were valid reasons for “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood” to streamline its opening episodes beyond simply […]
Castalia House Blog Picks of 2017
Thursday , 11, January 2018 Comics, Computer Games, Fiction, Games 13 Comments2017. It was the year where the wild west of indie science fiction, building on the momentum of previous years, surpassed the traditional publishers. It was the year when Marvel Comics collapsed, shuttering comics shops in its fall. It was the year when Disney divided Star Wars enthusiasts. When passion project games scored big and […]
Destroyer of Worlds, The Earth a Machine to Speak, and the Wandering Witch
Sunday , 20, September 2020 Uncategorized Leave a commentThe time for the extermination of the casteless untouchables has come. Only Ashok Vadal and his battle-tested Sons of the Black Sword fight for the fleeing nameless, in the name of an unknown god that Ashok cannot bring himself to believe in. But Ashok knows his duty, even if that forces him to cross blades […]
Previous entries in this light novel recommendation series have explored Tolkien’s primary and secondary worlds, with the aim of explaining the mechanics of isekai portal fantasies that take characters from the present and fling them into fantasy worlds. As a result, the selections have dealt with heroes from the primary world–our world. But self-contained and internally consistent fantasy worlds […]
Sensor Sweep: Sax Rohmer, Fighting Men, Tolkien, Arthur Machen, and Threads of Fate
Monday , 5, March 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsPulps (Pulp Archivist): “In an attempt to show the wider context of the changes in 1940s literature and how they may have affected Campbell and science fiction, let’s take a look at Doc Savage, the Shadow, and Babette Rosmond. The pulps were dying by inches during the Forties and the reading audience, cynical after another […]
SENSOR SWEEP: Raffish and Déclassé, Freewheeling Roots, Terrible Purpose, and Chunky Salsa
Monday , 24, April 2017 Sensor Sweep 32 CommentsBooks (Quintus Curtius) Why Every Man Should Read “Robinson Crusoe” — “Never before had English readers seen a story like it. Instead of telling a tale of man against man, Robinson Crusoe deals with that far more common circumstance: man against himself. While most of us will never be shipwrecked on a deserted island, we will […]
A Conversation with P. Alexander: Cirsova Magazine
Thursday , 17, November 2016 Interview 2 CommentsScott Cole: From the Cirsova zine submission guidelines: “Original short stories between 2000-7500 words, specifically those in the vein of Leigh Brackett, Jack Vance, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fritz Leiber and Robert E. Howard” What other old school authors do you enjoy and hope influence the content? P. Alexander: One of the reasons why I list […]