Pros multi-media zines: reviews ahoy!

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Hello, DIALJ Christmas tree watchers!

So we have had music as we open the presents, and there have been calendars and icons and ficlets and stories and I have none of these. I can't do graphics, and I made someone go ewww with my most recent drabbly effort (*iz proud*) so perhaps I won't do that, and I stupidly posted a story a fortnight ago which would have done quite nicely today and now I haven't got one for today. Whoops. But byslantedlight did say anything Pros-y. So I thought I would tell you all about my zine adventures.

I like zines, and I have bought quite a lot of them. Most of them are zines which are still in print, and some of them are very recent indeed. And nearly all of them are Pros-specific. So Pros-specific that even a crossover with Ladder of Swords is quite the departure. It is comparatively easy to find reviews of recent zines, and it is comparatively easy to find reviews of Pros-specific zines.

But recently I took the plunge and bought second-hand a great heap of crossover and what I gather are called multi-media zines. I kept waiting for them to sing at me, or to smell of interesting things if I scratched them, but apparently that is not the same kind of multi-media. Alas. Anyway, it is not nearly so easy to find reviews of these zines. Not if you only know about Pros resources on the web. (I did find a few which listed all the B7 pairings in them, and I expect that there are reviews over in S&H-land, but that is foreign territory to me.) So I thought I'd do some.

So here we go. I split them into separate posts, a zine per post. And over the course of the day, as LJ permits, I shall post a bunch of them. I am hoping to post them for Concupiscence, Concupiscence 3, Dark Fantasies 2, Dark Fantasies 4 and It's Greek To Me. We'll see how it goes. If you get fed up, do feel free to beg me to stop!

Pros in multi-media zines: Concupiscence

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First in my adventures in multi-fandom magazines with Pros content today is Concupiscence. (What is this, you ask? Background/intro to adventures here)

Concupiscence: "...Professionals and Gifted Amateurs" was published by Manacles in 1991. It has 150 pages. There are five Pros stories and seven others: two Wiseguy stories, and single stories about Blakes 7, Starsky and Hutch, Star Trek:the Next Generation, Star Wars and General Hospital.

Three of the Pros stories are already online; a fourth is on the Proslib CD.

( Overall, I liked it very much )

Pros in multi-media zines: Concupiscence 3

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Bounding onwards through old multi-media zines. For background, see here.

Concupiscence 3 was published by Manacles in 1993. It has 155 pages. There are two Pros stories (which come to 23 of those pages) and six others.

( I liked the Pros stories; the rest were a mix )

Pros in multi-media zines: Dark Fantasies 2

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Another in my big batch of second-hand multi-media zines from the states: Dark Fantasies 2. Published by Maverick Press in 1994, with 261 pages and seven stories. There is one Pros crossover and one Pros AU story.

( Only one real Pros story, but what a story... )

Pros in multi-media zines: Dark Fantasies 4

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And now to review the most recently-published of my batch of second-hand zines (What's all this? see here.) Dark Fantasies 4 was published by Maverick Press in 1996 and thus is a mere 15 years old! It has 203 pages, eighteen stories, and assorted poetry, plus an editorial and an advert at the back for a Man From UNCLE zine. There are five Pros stories in it.

( The Pros stuff is 84 of the 203 pages, and almost all of it BDSM... )

Pros in multi-media zines: It's Greek To Me

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And the last of my Pros-in-old-multimedia-zines reviews for the day. To save on repetition, background here.

It's Greek To Me was published by Olyve in 1992. It has 178 pages and contains three Pros stories, four Blakes 7 stories, one B7/Quantum Leap cross, one Alias Smith and Jones story, two where the show is not listed, and a page of B7-related poetry.

( Overall, I have to say, the stories I enjoyed the most were not the Pros ones... )