Burning Fields #8 Review

I use the climax of BOOM! Studios' Burning Fields to give an overview of this deceptive and well written series, see it over on Front Towards Gamer:
 http://ftg.operationsupplydrop.org/2015/09/29/burning-fields-8-review-comics/

Tet #1 Review

I discuss my love of sleazy stories with a social conscience as we take a look at the new IDW Vietnam comic entitled simply Tet, about a murder mystery set on the eve of the Tet Offensive, full review over at Front Towards Gamer

http://ftg.operationsupplydrop.org/2015/09/11/tet-1-review-comics/

Static Thoughts - True Detective Season 2

Edited by Robert Beach

Follow-ups are always difficult. It’s a rule of life that a 2^nd installment of anything is severely hit or miss. The general logic behind this is sequels are faced with a number of difficult choices: whether to provide more of the same or take a different approach, for instance. 

Even if the creators decide to simply produce more of what’s already proven successful, there’s the question of what worked so well in the original piece. A story is made up of so many individual parts it can be hard to pinpoint the exact aspects of it that resonates with an audience. This is where True Detective season 2 goes horrible, terribly, catastrophically wrong.