The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is more like an extended essay than a graphic novel. The text, sometimes in captions and sometimes in ball...

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is completely unhinged. But it is interestingly unhinged. At the very least, it is a structural wonder, an...

 I saw Star Wars when it first came out in 1977. It was very good. It was generally accepted that Star Wars was pretty heavily derived from ...

There was a thing called the Bible code, wasn't there? If you take the text of one book of the Bible and print it in a single long line,...

A meta review in six episodes This essay is intended for people who do not intend to read The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, but are interes...

 6: Review After Twice Upon a Time I said I was giving up on Doctor Who: it was no longer worth my headspace. (The discourse about the First...

  5: On My Mother's Side Star Wars and Star Trek and every single Marvel Comic cohere into one single story. Or, at any rate, if you squ...

4: Squee All fictional characters are constructs: David Copperfield and Dorothea Brooke just as much as Charlie Brown and Buzz Lightyear. So...

 2: Spoilers There were relatively few trailers or pre-publicity materials prior to the transmission of Power of the Doctor. This led to som...

2: Blossom "Oh, the blossomiest blossom!" exclaims the Thirteenth Doctor. She is just about to regenerate. Her last will and test...

 1: Review The Power of the Doctor was a load of Rubbish. I enjoyed it very much indeed.