If you want to get in the spirit of Harlan Ellison’s latest releases you ought to pay for them with pictures of Presidents. As, of course, you’ll want to do after reading these reviews:
Paul Anderson rates 7 Against Chaos, the new graphic story written by Harlan Ellison with art by Paul Chadwick and Ken Steacy, 4.5 skulls out of 5:
Together, Ellison, Chadwick, and Steacy create an epic story that feels both progressive but also a callback to any fan who started reading comics prior to the 1990s, when computers helped shape the look and feel of books. But, in spite of this, it is not a homage to those comics, nor “retro”.
Clay Stafford reviews the Subterranean Press reissue of Harlan Ellison’s The Deadly Streets, first published in 1958.
[The] writing, the characters, the plotting, and the situations still hold true. The “daddy-o’s” didn’t bother me a bit and the prose goes down like a teenager in a log flume.
Judge Darryl Loomis at DVD Verdict approves the Blu-Ray of A Boy and His Dog:
It may not be the best piece of science fiction ever made, but A Boy and His Dog is one of the best genre adaptations out there. It has its problems and, for a time, seems like two different movies, but its humor and cynicism make up for any missteps. It’s a great time, one of my favorites of the genre, and it finally, after all these years, gets a proper home video release.
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]
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I think the only time I saw “A Boy & His Dog” was at Discon II in 1974. Boy, was that along night.
“a long night” …. sheesh.
…saw it there as well, The film was loaded reel by reel, and between rewinding and reloading reels, Ellison lovingly and engagingly talked and talked. It might have been the first film that had commentary with its premier showing. I don’t think this kind of experience could ever be repeated, and I’ve largely avoided seeing the film again. I sat close enough to watch Ellison and hear him, while a former girlfriend of mine tried her best to flirt with Harlan…
Long night, yes. A unique showing.
Mr. Ellison once again screws the contributors to Last Dangerous Visions by engaging in finishing more projects of his own while breaking all of his promises to LDV’s contributors to finally get the anthology out. And we’re supposed to celebrate this, enable him, and profit him?
A large number of LDV stories have escaped:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Dangerous_Visions#Alternative_publications_of_the_stories
I suspect some authors are ok with the non-publication since the stories are not, shall we say, reflective of their current work.
Beating on Harlan over LDV is sooooooo last century.
Discon II was my first convention, and seeing A Boy & His Dog and Ellison in person was one of the highlights for this young neofan. Ah, memories.
I hope for Harlan that Last Dangerous Visions is not part of his tombstone.
The stories that have not surfaced are probably no good. Anyway.