I've watched the first two episodes of Netflix's live action One Piece . I can't help wondering who this show is for despite t...

A new chapter of my webcomic, Dekpa and Deborah , is now online. I hope you like pirates. I know I do. Happy Birthday to Thomas Hobbes, ...

Last night's Mandalorian was a mixed bag for me. There were some ideas I really liked but I think the teleplay by Jon Favreau would...

'Twas the year 1961 and director Robert D. Webb ruthlessly plundered the footage of older pirate films to make the mild, stage bound a...

I'm having some trouble getting pictures online. The web hosting service I've used for over twenty years now is starting to seem a...

It remains a mystery to me that 1942's The Black Swan exists and that people don't seem especially interested in it. I watched it...

A savage hatred between two brothers foments over a lifetime in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1889 novel The Master of Ballantrae . Gloomy ...

To-day I read the latest issue of Sirenia Digest . It includes the first part in a serialised version of Caitlin R. Kiernan's upcoming...

So the new Doctor Who special was really bad. I won't confidently predict this one'll be universally hated, as I did for the last...

A new chapter of my webcomic, Dekpa and Deborah , is finally online. I passed the 200 mark with this one and now the comic stands at 202 p...

What would happen if you set Treasure Island in space? Well, that's a question that's been answered no less than three times in f...

Despite the popularity of pirate films in the mid-20th century, there were surprisingly few made about the infamous Barbary pirates. 1953...

There's a new chapter of my infrequently updated web comic, Dekpa and Deborah , online to-day. Deborah brings matters between herself ...

Sometimes, no matter how much you dance, people still think you're a pirate. Even the title of 1936's Dancing Pirate implies he...

Of all the pirate names to inspire fear on the seven seas, "Puddin' Head" ranks pretty low. But the film featuring that char...

And so I come by Sir Walter Scott via H.P. Lovecraft. Perhaps this is not a common statement nowadays. But Barnes and Noble has put out a ...