The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
I saw Spaceballs before I saw Star Wars. I saw Robin Hood, Men in Tights before I saw Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. And I read The Weight of Blood before I read Carrie. And honestly, I think I made the right choice! I can’t imagine reading a story like Carrie from the perspective of a white guy in the 1970s, no matter how many times he claps back at JKR. I had some preconceived notions about this book – mainly I thought it was […]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: High School is Hell (Vol. 1) by Jordie Bellaire
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once Bitten (Vol. 2) by Jordie Bellaire
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Hellmouth (Vol. 3) by Jordie Bellaire
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ring of Fire (Vol. 4) by Jordie Bellaire
Okay, so let me explain what’s going on here real quick, because the comic doesn’t actually do a particularly good job of it: it’s adapting Buffy into the current modern day, rather than the modern day at the time that it aired. So: pushing the story forward by about 20 years. And seeing what still works, what changes, and what snaps under the pressure. It’s an interesting idea. It’s not so far of a time-displacement that it makes everything different (which […]
but there was a small panic culturally in the early 90s when someone put like John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart in a commercial. I think it was Humphrey Bogart selling Diet Coke or something like that. There was a strong feeling that this would lead to old stars being in EVERYTHING and who knows what would happen then! Nothing would. Sure there were a few strange blips here and there where someone would pop up somewhere, but now we have Princess Leia and Tarkin showing […]
