Author: Alex Irvine
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How Artists of Loose Morals Might Exploit the Super Snake
Saw this article this morning, and it got me thinking. (What especially got me thinking was the hyperbolic headline.) All over Hollywood, hack screenwriters must be trying to figure out how they can surreptitiously adapt Anaconda to the Miami-Dade hinterlands. Cue Jon Voight: “The Everglades can keel you in a thousand ways…” Would that be…
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Transformers: War for Cybertron Trailer
Boy, is this fun to watch: http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=60792
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US World Cup Draw Looks Better and Better
Look at this performance by Algeria–against that powerhouse Malawi–in the African Cup of Nations. If we can’t beat these guys…
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It’s Raining Tonys
That’s the title of a little prose story I wrote for Indomitable Iron Man Black and White #1, out on Feb. 3. There are also three or four short comics by the likes of Howard Chaykin and Paul Cornell. It’ll be fun. Check it out. Cover and copy: Iron Man does battle with a hyper-intelligent…
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Edgar Allan Poe and Clint Dempsey
Have nothing to do with each other and nothing in common beyond Southern origin. Just to get that out of the way. But there is interesting Poe-related news today, as the Baltimore Sun reports that Poe’s descendants are set to declare which of the many contenders they feel has the most claim to be the…
Crooked House Fictions 