Hello, I'm Bill, I'm 26, have a BA in history and am far too deeply in love with all things "Pulp" then is to be expected of someone my age. I grew up reading Edgar Rice Burroughs, especially the John Carter stuff, from a very early age (in 5th grade I did a book report on A Princess of Mars!), later got into Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and that whole gang, and I'll take swords-and-sorcery over Tolkienesque high fantasy any day, and Weird, atmospheric horror over the latest slasher movie as well. Then I started reading reprints of The Shadow and Doc Savage when I could get them. More recently, I've begun dipping my toes into hardboiled detective/crime fiction - I'll take Dashiell Hammett over Chandler, I think, and both of them are an order of magnitude above Spillane.
I've spent five years writing a blog reviewing horror movies, and I'm ready to change things up. I'd like to bring what I learned reviewing movies, as well as my history degree (since lord knows I'm not using it for anything that pays the bills), to bear talking about the cheap, disposable literature I enjoy so much. No high-fangled literary criticism here -- I don't have the background for it. Just discussions of what I've been reading and what I think of it.
Say hello. I don't bite.
Hi there! I'm a fan of the Pulp Era in adventure fiction too. One of the first SF books I ever read was "Doc" Smith's "The Skylark of Space". I discovered Doc Savage much later, but became a fan of him too.
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I look forward to reading your blog.
Hi Kurt! I read Doc Smith's "Spacehounds of IPC" not too long ago myself - fun stuff, for sure! If you get a chance, check out the novel "The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril," as Doc Smith himself is a strong supporting character in that.
DeleteI'm digging the webcomic! Keep up the great work!