Merchandise, And The Unapologetic Plugging Thereof
We’d like to draw your attention to some merchandise and end-of-year deals that may align with your holiday gift giving plans: Our Twelve Book Bundle is always a good pick. Seventy Maxims of Maximally...
View ArticleDo You Design T-Shirts?
Sandra and I are looking to engage the services of a designer for a new round of Schlock Mercenary t-shirts. This will be a work-for-hire project that pays a flat fee for each design, plus a slice of...
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi
There has been quite a bit of noise on social media regarding the spoiler content in reviews of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, so I’ll be even less specific than I usually am when reviewing things that...
View ArticleFinal Day for “by Christmas” Delivery!
UPDATE: This aired on Monday the 18th, so the final day has kinda passed. If you’re ordering Schlock Mercenary merchandise, and you need it delivered by Christmas, you must place that order today, and...
View Article6,403 Days
We used to celebrate round-number milestones when counting the number of days that Schlock Mercenary has been running, but once we hit 2,000 I realized that the next “important” round number was 5,000,...
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was every bit as much fun as I hoped it would be. In part this is because I saw it with my sixteen-year-old daughter, but mostly it’s because the folks on-screen were...
View ArticleHappy 2018!
Happy 2018, everyone (at least everyone celebrating these things in conjunction with Gregorian calendars.) I spent most of the holiday break being sick, which is no fun, and breaking a tooth, which was...
View ArticleConFusion This Weekend
I’ll be attending ConFusion Through The Looking Glass in Detroit this weekend. I’m not on any panels (by choice) and I’m neither exhibiting (by choice) nor selling merchandise (you see the pattern...
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Our Slightly Ambitious Goals for 2018
We just sent the files for Random Access Memorabilia: Schlock Mercenary Book 13 off to the printer¹. Yes, we sent those about three months later than we wanted to, but they’re off, and we know what...
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The Illuminated Plasgun
I had an epiphany several weeks ago, a vision of sorts in which I could see very clearly what kind of lighting I needed on my drawing table. This led (hah!) to an investigation of LED strips, which in...
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Find Sandra and Also Me at LTUE This Weekend
Sandra and I are participating at LTUE in Provo, Utah this weekend. This is our home town show, and we’re going to have a table in the dealers’ room. New items beneath the Schlock Mercenary shingle at...
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Black Panther
(NOTE: This review is a bit late, yes. My bad. I’ve been super busy.) I saw Black Panther on Friday afternoon during its opening weekend, and while I really enjoyed it, I must acknowledge that my...
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Annihilation
Annihilation did some magnificent things, but ultimately it didn’t tell a story that I enjoyed very much. I can’t complain at all about the acting, the effects, the camera work, or the sound design,...
View ArticleThe Big Five-Zero
I’m fifty years old. Wow. I don’t want skull-shaped balloons¹, or a headstone-shaped cake. I just want to get my stuff done, and be surrounded by people who are happy. If the pattern holds true, my own...
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A Wrinkle In Time
I saw A Wrinkle In Time in the IMAX theater on opening night, and loved it. The film is beautiful, and the younger cast members were absolutely brilliant, especially Storm Reid and Derek McCabe. It’s...
View ArticleSchlock Mercenary T-Shirts!
We’re making t-shirts again! We’re using Kickstarter, because it’s worked pretty well for us in the past, and because late last year we promised to do a t-shirt Kickstarter in February of 2018. I know,...
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Pacific Rim: Uprising
The last fifteen years have spoiled us. Back in MY day when we heard that a movie had a sequel we were mildly enthusiastic because we knew it wouldn’t be as good as the first one. Smokey and the Bandit...
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Ready Player One
Ready Player One was a visual extravaganza with a story that gave it convenient excuses to feature pop-culture icons from the past thirty years. I enjoyed it a lot, but the most innovative part about...
View ArticleT-Shirt Kickstarter Ends Tuesday!
We’re in the final days of the Schlock Mercenary t-shirt project. As of this writing we’re 5% shy of being 300% funded, but more importantly we’re only fifty shirt sales away from a free shirt. It’s a...
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Rampage
Rampage was everything I wanted from a cinematic adaptation of one of my favorite video games. The writers did a fine job of splitting the difference between making the monsters our protagonists, and...
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