NAME: Eddie Clark.
SECRET UNDISCLOSED LOCATION: The bottom right
corner of the map, if we have in fact been included on it.
NERD SPECIALIZATION(S): SFF books. Video Games. Anime. The
intersection of gay shit with all 3.
MY PET PEEVES IN NERD-DOM ARE: The Hugo Award for Best
Novella from Tor. Books which don’t trust the reader to do the slightest bit of
work. Mistaking aesthetic preference for for moral valence.
VAMPIRES, WEREWOLVES, ZOMBIES, ALIENS OR ROBOTS: Alien
Vampires.
RIGHT NOW I'M READING: The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh.
…AND A COUPLE BOOKS I RECENTLY FINISHED ARE: A Tangle of
Time, by Josiah Bancroft. The Door on the Sea, by Caskey
Russell. The Effaced, by Tobias Begley.
NEXT TWO ON QUEUE ARE: Notes from a Regicide,
by Isaac Fellman. Seventhblade, by Tonya Laird.
WHEN THE WEATHER SUCKS OUTSIDE I'M MOST LIKELY TO
BE… on the couch. Either book or controller in hand.
MY FAVORITE SUPERHERO AND SUPER-VILLAIN ARE: My answer to this will vary over time. This month: Kid Juggernaut and Mysteriant respectively (Anthony Oliveira’s run on Avengers Academy is a thing of queer beauty; do check it out).
IF I WERE A SUPERHERO/VILLAIN, MY POWER WOULD BE: Sending
anyone to sleep instantly. I’d mostly use it on myself.
THE BEST COMIC FILM OF THE PAST 5 YEARS IS: Probably
haven’t seen an western comic adaptation in the past five years! But the
Netflix limited series adaptation of Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto in 2023 was
spectacularly good.
THE WORST COMIC FILM OF THE PAST 5 YEARS IS: Happily
for the genre, I really don’t have one to offer!
I JUST WATCHED XXXX AND IT WAS
AWESOME: Kowloon Generic Romance—pitch perfect vibes,
well produced, casually queer, and didn’t take any easy exits.
I JUST WATCHED XXXX AND IT WAS
TERRIBLE. Star Trek: Section 31. Did not understand what Star Trek is.
Didn’t understand character. Bleh.
EVERYONE SHOULD SEE XXXX BEFORE
IT'S TOO LATE, Run, don’t walk, to whatever distribution is available
in your country and watch the superb SF black comedy Creamerie. Funny,
sharp, and bleak.
BEST SCIENCE/SPECULATIVE FICTION SHOW OF THE PAST 10
YEARS: The Expanse.
NAME A BOOK YOU *NEED* A MOVIE OF (OR VICE
VERSA): A Merchant Ivory adaptation of A Mourning Coat by
Alex Jeffers would be amazing.
Welcome, Eddie!