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Tech Guide 2 Is Go

The new tech guide is here. Get yours now! The lushly illustrated Combat Frame Tech Guide II is now available on Amazon in digital and print! Like our first guide, the eBook makes a handy reference for the novels' white-knuckle mech action that's ready to go whenever and wherever you…
September 8, 2023
Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes Indeed

Special Offer: All writing is persuasion. But knowing what approach works and when can be a challenge. Let best selling ghostwriter Joshua Lisec show you the best persuasive techniques to supercharge your writing. Check out his offer now. Once again, the Pop Cult-captured entertainment establishment is admitting what they vehemently…
September 7, 202315 Comments
The Matrix

The Matrix

Special Offer: All writing is persuasion. But knowing what approach works and when can be a challenge. Let best selling ghostwriter Joshua Lisec show you the best persuasive techniques to supercharge your writing. Check out his offer now. In this blog's retrospective film review series, we've covered the movie that's…
September 6, 20234 Comments
Old Hotel Hallway

It Was at the Door

Special Offer: All writing is persuasion. But knowing what approach works and when can be a challenge. Let best selling ghostwriter Joshua Lisec show you the best persuasive techniques to supercharge your writing. Check out his offer now. The spooky season is around the corner, so that means it's about…
September 5, 20232 Comments
Robot Jox

Robot Jox

Robot Jox is an oft-overlooked specimen of 1980s dystopian sci fi. But unlike some of the other almost forgotten films of the era we've covered, it's not overlooked without reason. Note that I don't say "good reasons," but reasons nonetheless. Let's take a look at what I mean. Robot Jox…
September 1, 20233 Comments
Return to Bablylon

It Was in the Film

We've documented a fair share of hauntings over the years of this blog's existence. Once the reality of the ghost phenomenon has been established, the question becomes, if a movie theater can be haunted, why not a movie? Director Alex Monty Canawati may have answered that question with his 2013…
August 31, 202310 Comments
Death Angel

Combat Frame Data: Death Angel

XCD-208D Death Angel    Technical Data Model number: XCD-208D Code name: XSeed Angel King Dex Trapper Custom Nickname: Death Angel Classification: custom Two-series Sentinel use combat frame Manufacturer: PAX modification of ISBC design Operator: PAX First deployment: CY 99 Crew: 1 pilot in cockpit in chest Height: 21 meters Weight: 126 metric…
August 30, 2023
Princess of Mars protagonist John Carter

How to Write Protagonists

If your protagonist sucks, your story will suck. The engine that drives every story has three parts: a protagonist, something the protagonist wants, and an antagonist (human, environmental, psychological, etc.) who obstructs the protagonist's attainment of that goal. When you relate what the protagonist does to overcome the obstacles in his…
August 29, 20232 Comments
True Likeness

The True Likeness

Regular readers of this blog have known for some time that the Shroud of Turin is the real deal. In fact, a surfeit of physical and historical evidence - including a compelling logical chain of custody - makes denying that the shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus the much…
August 28, 20232 Comments
Woke Soyjak

Woke Is the New Racist

Come one, come all to the ongoing tug-of-war between two Boomer memes! The prize? 2/3 of US consumer dollars. Politicians and businesses cower in fear of being accused of racism. As we saw during the George Floyd riots, a racism charge is perceived to be so serious that many businesses…
August 25, 20239 Comments