Dec/0914
Goin’ Hollywood
As you may or may not know, Gil’s All Fright Diner was optioned by Dreamworks Animation for a possible movie adaptation, and now the creative story team behind Kung Fu Panda has been given the go ahead to do their thing. Â This is fantastic news.
Oct/090
Green Lantern: First Flight (a review)
 FIRST, THE COMIC BOOK RANT. YOU CAN SKIP TO THE REVIEW A FEW PARAGRAPHS DOWN.
I don’t know if my regular readers have noticed this or not, but I tend to spend an unusual amount of time bemoaning the quality of modern comic books. A big part of this, I’ll admit, is simply coming from a different era. Everybody tends to like things they grew up with more than is reasonable. But it’s also because comics are kind of lame now.
Aug/093
…But Robots REALLY Are Cool.
I was perusing the internet, as I am wont to do, when I came across a thoughtful comment regarding my recent zombie panel at Armadillocon. I wanted to cut and paste it directly, but I couldn’t find it today, and it’s late, and I’m lazy, so I’ll just sort of paraphrase what the poster said as best I can. Apologies if I screw it up.
“Martinez and Thomas made some interesting points about the redundancy of the genre and how every zombie story is basically the same, but none of that really matters because zombies rule!”
Jul/094
Musings
I don’t like being considered “funny”. Because funny is so damned subjective. Anyway, my stories are stories first, comedy second. I’m not trying to be wacky or goofy or madcap. I’m just writing offbeat fantasy that appeals to me. Personally, I think it’s some truly original stuff, and, if I don’t mind indulging my own ego just for a wee moment, it’s more absurdist pastiche of the fantasy genre with elements of integrated realism. Now if someone could figure out how to summarize that in a pithy phrase on a book cover, I might be in business.
Jul/092
District 9? No, Thanks.
Can we declare the era of the pseudo-reality movie over already? First there was Blair Witch. Not very good, but at least it was original. And it was a low budget student film. It was a novelty.  Good?  Not really. But at least it wasn’t something you see everyday.
Then came Cloverfield (Godzilla meets Blair Witch) and Diary of the Dead (zombies meet Blair Witch) and that one with the reporter in the apartment building which was really annoying because they showed the last freaking scene in the movie commercials over and over and over again. I’m sure if I cared to look, I could find two or three dozen more.
