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  Cover for issue #2 by Tom Scioli Short Story: Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre Author: Tom Scioli Published: IDW (2024) Rating: ✪✪✪✪✪ (absolutely wonderful) The graphic novel collects the three issue mini series from IDW. It’s got to be the most fun comic I’ve read in my 41 years on this earth.  Tom Scioli has outdone himself!! Even if you’ve read American Barbarian and Transformers VS G.I. Joe … you are not prepared for what happens in this incredible comic! The story begins as a straightforward adaptation of the beginning of The Great Gatsby , but then Godzilla attacks.  From then on, Gatsby applies his incredible wealth to building a paramilitary organization of science heroes to hunt down and destroy the giant lizard.  Other members of the team include, Sherlock Holmes, The Time Machinist, a steampunk cyborg H. G. Wells just to name a few.  The comic is exciting, hilarious, and it makes the biggest corporate blockbuster look like a cowardly, visionless...

Illustration for the original publication by Frank R. Paul Short Story: A Martian Odyssey Author: Stanley G. Weinbaum Published: Wonder Stories (1934) Featured In: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964 (1970) Rating: ✪✪ ☆☆ ☆ (more interesting than enjoyable) Last year, I started working my way through The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964 .  I was astonished at how enjoyable I found so many of the stories to be!  The ones that weren't as fun to read were often interesting from a historical point of view as you could see the building blocks of contemporary story tropes coalesce in the minds of writers who just had a lot less Scifi stuff to give them ideas.  True creative pioneers!  It occurred to me that I was losing track of what stories were written when, by whom, and about what.  So I thought I'd start a media blog to keep track of my thoughts on all the lovely stories, games, films, and what not I've been encounteri...