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What a Life of Luxury to Be an Ape-Man

The Return of Tarzan, by Edgar Rice Burroughs – This sequel wraps up some of the hanging plot threads in the first book, but also takes the story in some different directions. While the first one was about a guy … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, British, Chinese, edgar rice burroughs, England, Fairy Tales, History, Magic, Mythology, Neil Gaiman, Prejudice | Tagged fairies, fletcher pratt, human sacrifice, jane porter, john hollyshoes, john uskglass, john uskglass and the cumbrian charcoal burner, jonathan strange and mr norrell, mary queen of scots, mr simonelli or the fairy widower, on lickerish hill, racism, rumplestiltskin, stardust, susanna clarke, tarzan, the blue star, the duke of wellington misplaces his horse, the ladies of grace adieu, the return of tarzan, the twelve, tom brightwind or how the fairy bridge was built at thoresby, treasures of the twelve, witches, zodiac |

This Planet Has a Moon Problem

The way things worked out, I ended up finishing several books around the same time, so here’s a series of reviews. It Waits in the Forest, by Sarah Dass – It’s another Rick Riordan Presents book, although I think its almost-eighteen … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Arabian, Authors, Caribbean, Chinese, edgar rice burroughs, Greek Mythology, incryptid, Islam, Japanese, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Piers Anthony, Religion, Rick Riordan, Roman, seanan mcguire, Technology, up-and-under, Xanth | Tagged a. deborah baker, alif the unseen, amtor, arabian nights, artemis, barsoom, bucks, change, christina rossetti, cuckoos, diana, dragons, emerald city, g. willow wilson, goblin market, h.g. wells, impossible city, it waits in the forest, jinn, john wyndham, johrlac, mani, mars, moon, pellucidar, pirates of venus, rick riordan presents, sarah dass, six crystal princesses, tarzan, the midwich cuckoos, the war of the worlds, tidal creatures, tsukuyomi, venus, village of the damned |

Man, You Should Have Seen Them Kicking Edgar Allan Poe

What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher – This is an adaptation and expansion of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which I read in preparation for this. It contains other references as well, with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Beatrix Potter, Book Reviews, Conspiracy Theories, Language, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Persian, Prejudice, Relationships | Tagged anthony hope, at the earth's core, bloody rose, colonialism, dragons, edgar allan poe, edgar rice burroughs, hollow earth, inkwitch, jack vance, kings of the wyld, necromancers, nicholas eames, pellucidar, rhialto the marvellous, satyrs, shamans, simurgh, t. kingfisher, tarzan, the dying earth, the fall of the house of usher, the prisoner of zenda, what moves the dead |

It’s Koopa Clobbering Time

Here are some more Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews, and for once I haven’t heard the reviews on the Super Show Show podcast at the Hard Times, because they haven’t gotten to most of these yet, “Mario of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged a basement divided, adee don't, albatosses, apes, beetles, big bad wolf, chippie chipmunks, fred travalena, gramma toadstool, honey i shrunk the kids, jungle land, karate, karate koopa, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, koopa-kola, lions, little red riding hood, little red riding princess, luigi mario, mario mario, mario of the apes, martial arts, melanie chartoff, misaki, mouser, mr. gibbel, mr. miyagi, mushroom kingdom, ninjis, no way to treat a queenie, plumb fu, princess i shrunk the mario brothers, princess peach toadstool, queen elizabeth ii, ratigator, sayanora, tarzan, tawny tyler, the karate kid, toad, triclyde, trouters, waldo the wizard, wolves |

The Gang’s All Here

Picture by Mark Spears I noticed on Joe Bongiorno’s Royal Timeline of Oz that he’s added several fictional works not directly related to Oz or L. Frank Baum, crediting some of them to Win Scott Eckert’s Wold Newton Universe chronology. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Greek Mythology, History, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Roman, Star Trek | Tagged a barnstormer in oz, aeneas, aeneid, anachronisms, conan the barbarian, count dracula, crossovers, dc comics, doc savage, doc savage his apocalyptic life, dorothy gale, edgar rice burroughs, great detective, h.p. lovecraft, henry w. walston, joe bongiorno, john l. nanovic, lester dent, marvel comics, oziana, philip jose farmer, robert e. howard, royal timeline of oz, sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, spock, tarzan, tarzan alive, the undiscovered country, thor, time travel, trojan war, virgil, win scott eckert, wold cottage meteorite, wold newton family, wold newton universe |

Me Tarzan, You Jane

Tarzan – The ape-man is one of the most prominent characters of twentieth-century fiction, dating back to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes in 1912. There were actually a lot of Tarzan books, but I’ve only ever read the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged edgar rice burroughs, jane porter, kala, kerchak, professor porter, rosie o'donnell, rudyard kipling, tantor, tarzan, tarzan of the apes, terk, wayne knight, william clayton |

Crisis in Infinite Springfields

The Simpsons has just recently ended its twenty-fourth season, and I feel like I’m one of the few people who still watches every new episode. Someone else must be watching it, though, or they wouldn’t keep renewing it. While it … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Futurama, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged aging, amy wong, captain america, charles montgomery burns, crisis on infinite earths, cubert farnsworth, dc comics, homer simpson, iron man, marge simpson, marvel comics, matt groening, philip j. fry, principal skinner, professor hubert farnsworth, tarzan, turanga leela, waylon smithers, wolverine, x-men |