Day five: hello again!

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Hiya again, DIALJ. It is me again, all day. Muahaha. Last year, I posted a heap of multi-media zine reviews, and people liked them. So I have some more batches of reviews, and I hope to post at least some of them today. Some are multi-media, some are Pros-only, and some are crossovers. I'm having a bit of a last-minute edit of the zine ones, so here's one of the others for now: crossovers with Ladder of Swords.

Oh, I do like the film Ladder of Swords. It has a bear. How can it go wrong? (Answer: by losing the bear. Noo!) Also, it has some great female parts: honestly, I like the drunken wife, she's great. And it has Bob Peck, effortlessly stealing every scene he's in, even when certain people start doing some sort of calisthenics routine in the background. And the landscape. I spent half the time watching it going "I'm sure I know this place, where did they film that?"

Other attractions are also available.

And so when a friend lent me the zine Czardas - which crosses Pros with Ladder of Swords - I had to go away and watch Ladder of Swords again. Oh, the hardship. And I realised that I had by now read a good proportion of the Ladder of Swords crossovers. Not that there are that many, really. There are so few that it's possibly to read them in one big group. So I did. And here is some nearly-Pros stuff in the form of thoughts on the various Pros/Ladders of Swords stories I have found.

( Not that there's that many... )

Adventures in multi-media zines: Concupiscence 2

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Bah, having some delays here today. Okay. Last year I inflicted my thoughts about a variety of multi-media zines on people. Clearly I liked them because now I have a few more. Last year, I had acquired Concupiscence and Concupiscence 3. This year, I am filling in the gaps, so here is Concupiscence 2.

( The zine is good, but it was not the Pros stories which enchanted me )

And another zine review: D-Notice.

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So it occurs to me that not a single one of today's offerings has been purely Pros. It is perhaps time to remedy that. Another review, and this one is a Pros zine proper: D-Notice.

D-Notice was published in 1995 and is, as far as I know, out of print. I bought it second-hand. It is 156 pages long and contains five stories which total about 87,000 words. Three of the stories have been online for some years; a fourth only arrived online earlier this year. So if you are looking for fiction you can't get on the net, this is not the zine you should put at the top of your list.

( But I enjoyed this zine very much indeed, and I am glad I got it. )