All that fantasy jazz.
For consistency's sake: I'm Nick Beadle, a lingering senior in journalism, political science and running campus media.
I have tubs of fantasy texts at the house. Mostly comic books, but also prose by Ray Bradbury and Neil Gaiman (among others). My DVD collection, while meager, spots me Lost and Donnie Darko, too.
I admit that a lot of what I read straddles that unseen portal between science fiction, but I'll be damned if portal bears on tropical islands (insert "Inconvenient Truth" joke here) and farmboy demigods powered by the sun tan ain't fantasy. So while I've never been a fan of the fly-around-on-a-broom-and-hit-the-ancient-monster-of-utter-darkness
-with-your-big-golden-sword-and-use-the-hidden-amulet-of-your-avatars
-to-save-the-day-in-three-more-books stuff, I think I have a nice handle on the genre.
I have read most of Gaiman's stuff (big fan of Sandman, American Gods and their conceptual children) except for his children's books (until next week), a few of his short stories and Good Omens with Terry Pratchett. I think Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes is one of the better meldings of SF and fantasy, granted one I haven't re-read since 9th grade. I have at least seen the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, and I have been forced to read little excerpts of the books by my 16-year-old brother and an ex-girlfriend or two.
I was that kid who hung out by the supermarket newstand while his parents shopped, so I know a fair bit of the contradictions and spiderwebs of Marvel and DC's comic book continuity from the late 80s and the "Dark Ages" of early 90s on. When I procrastinate, I tend to go looking for the backstory to some of the quick and out characters that popped up when the superhero market was oversaturated in the mid-90s, and with a good bit of successthanks to Wikipedia and sites like this detailed history of The Flash.
May Odin grant mercy to Bloodaxe and Thunderstrike.
I have tubs of fantasy texts at the house. Mostly comic books, but also prose by Ray Bradbury and Neil Gaiman (among others). My DVD collection, while meager, spots me Lost and Donnie Darko, too.
I admit that a lot of what I read straddles that unseen portal between science fiction, but I'll be damned if portal bears on tropical islands (insert "Inconvenient Truth" joke here) and farmboy demigods powered by the sun tan ain't fantasy. So while I've never been a fan of the fly-around-on-a-broom-and-hit-the-ancient-monster-of-utter-darkness
-with-your-big-golden-sword-and-use-the-hidden-amulet-of-your-avatars
-to-save-the-day-in-three-more-books stuff, I think I have a nice handle on the genre.
I have read most of Gaiman's stuff (big fan of Sandman, American Gods and their conceptual children) except for his children's books (until next week), a few of his short stories and Good Omens with Terry Pratchett. I think Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes is one of the better meldings of SF and fantasy, granted one I haven't re-read since 9th grade. I have at least seen the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, and I have been forced to read little excerpts of the books by my 16-year-old brother and an ex-girlfriend or two.
I was that kid who hung out by the supermarket newstand while his parents shopped, so I know a fair bit of the contradictions and spiderwebs of Marvel and DC's comic book continuity from the late 80s and the "Dark Ages" of early 90s on. When I procrastinate, I tend to go looking for the backstory to some of the quick and out characters that popped up when the superhero market was oversaturated in the mid-90s, and with a good bit of successthanks to Wikipedia and sites like this detailed history of The Flash.
May Odin grant mercy to Bloodaxe and Thunderstrike.
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