Tag Archives: Pacific Rim

Canceling the Apocalypse

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: May 17, 2013

I am hyped about Pacific Rim. It’s not just because it’s a giant monster (aka kaiju) movie. It’s not because it’s an original story, not based on any established property. And it’s not just because it’s a giant monster (aka kaiju) movie. (Yes, I mentioned that twice because it is worth mentioning twice.) It’s not [...]

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Kaiju Primer

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: May 9, 2013

Greeting, Action Force. So yesterday, Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain was a featured daily deal on Amazon’s Kindle store, and it went swimmingly from what I can gather. The book was in the top 100 of Kindle sales ranking, and last time I checked, it’s still there, even though it’s now regular price. Might [...]

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Cage Matched

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: April 30, 2013

The world is one giant complicated mess, and as humans, we aren’t wired to deal with that. Given a chance, we will always simplify, reduce, and otherwise ignore rather than deal with possibilities. This is a gross generalization, and not everyone does this all the time. But we all do it sometime. And some of [...]

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It Conquered the Media Property!

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: January 29, 2013

The monopolistic nature of media is what worries me the most about the future. J.J. Abrams is now going to be put in charge of two powerful science fiction dynasties. One man will control both Star Trek and Star Wars. Meanwhile, Disney defacto owns 90 percent of our fairy tale characters, Marvel Comics, the Muppets, [...]