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Irregular’s Intel – Game to Page: The Video Game Based Novel

Blog-III do have to admit, I have read my share of novel adaptations. Mostly movie, although there have been some television series thrown in there for fun, too. Oh, there was that awesome time in the mid to late 90s when Marvel turned out some really good original prose for their more popular characters. However, that is not why I write this piece. Continue reading Irregular’s Intel – Game to Page: The Video Game Based Novel

Irregular’s Intel – New Pulp: Classic Action For a New Age

IrregularIntelThe summer of 1984 found me reading the adventures of Remo Williams: The Destroyer, The Soldiers of Barrabas, The Phoenix Force, and a handful of other action novels that were in print. It also introduced me to the character that would forever change my life: Buckaroo Banzai! Dr. Banzai was an astrophysicist, neurosurgeon, rock star, race car driver, presidential adviser, martial arts master, and about a dozen other things that I could mention here. He is the reason why I do all the things and stretch my horizons more and more on a daily basis. At any rate, the character was inspired by the pulp character Doc Savage. The world he lived in was very similar to that of Flash Gordon, The Phantom, The Spider, The Shadow, and the host of pulp figures who came before. I gained an appreciation for these two-fisted heroes of daring do who fought evil, regardless of the odds… and usually got the dame at the end. I still love those books. But, last weekend at the Akron Comic Con I was introduced to something else… something I never knew existed… NEW PULP! Continue reading Irregular’s Intel – New Pulp: Classic Action For a New Age