Tag: Minute-Men: Execute & Run
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More Praise for Minute Men
The Word is Out! In yesterday’s post, I shared World Fantasy Award-finalist Michael Libling‘s take on Minute Men: Execute & Run. You can find that review here. Today, we’ll hear from poet, critic, and novelist Albert Wendland, author of the acclaimed Mykol Ranglen science-fiction series, which includes the novels In a Suspect Universe, Haunted Stars,…
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Make Way for the Minute Men
Execute & Run Releases October 14! This is the world of The Minute Men: The day after tomorrow. Technology has advanced, wars rage, and a disparate group of wounded warriors bands together to confront the ultimate evil. The Reviews Are In Starting today, and continuing throughout the month, I’ll be posting advance reviews of the…
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Super Strange Super Villains
Evil or Just Plain Weird? The Vintage Villain Lineup Our most recent challenge over at the Minute Men Newsletter asks folks to identify the six baddies pictured above. If you’re a newsletter subscriber, you know the details. If you’re not, you can subscribe or check out the challenge by clicking here. Either way, read on!…
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Guitar Superpower
Tied Up in Bows The guitar acquired a new voice in 1969. I remember hearing it on Led Zeppelin’s first album, most notably on the LP’s final track, which featured a series of long notes that sounded like the moaning of a humpback whale … or perhaps the reverberations of some massive heavy-metal machine. Here’s…
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The Art of Rotoscoping
Animating Life Since 1917 Nearly a century before James Cameron transformed 5′ 7″ Zoe Saldaña into the nine-foot-tall Neytiri in Avatar, cartoonist Max Fleischer pioneered the first motion capture device in his Brooklyn living room. Consisting of a projector mounted behind a transparent easel, the rotoscope machine transformed the art of animation by allowing cartoon…
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4.5 Million Podcasts
Are you listening? Lots of folks are. According to Variety, last week’s installment of the New Heights podcast racked up 13 million views in just 24 hours. Of course, it helped that pop star Taylor Swift dropped by to join her buddy Travis Kelce to talk about her upcoming album. I’m sure brother Chris and…