One available in my Etsy store… …and six from my sketchbook:

Once I realized that “Project 2025” was going to be the Democrats’ latest boogeyman, a vague title to which they can ascribe any number of fever-dream warnings about a second Trump presidency because no one has read the damned thing, I decided to read the damned thing. Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. The whole…

Iron Warrior (1987) – This is the third movie of the loose “Ator” franchise, i.e., the third movie in which Miles O’Keeffe plays a barbarian warrior named “Ator,” even though there’s now even less connection to the earlier movies than there was between first first and second. (A few dozen more of these, and Ator…

Hawk the Slayer (1980) – I last saw this when I was eighteen. Unlike me, it has not improved with age. Generic good-guy prince Hawk (John Terry) inherits a magic sword from his father to fight his bad-guy older brother Voltan (Jack Palance (!), a full thirty years older than Terry).  The big bad-guy affront…

That’s right, I finally filled another sketchbook, so the Sketch of the Day has recommenced!

The Raid: Redemption (2011) – My son introduced this movie to me with, “It’s Dredd without Judge Dredd but with John Wick-levels of action.”  Sold! The story is little more than a premise: An Indonesian S.W.A.T. team (with rookie member Rama (Iko Kawais) as the protagonist) stages a raid on a thirty-floor brutalist apartment building…

Deathstalker 2: Duel of the Titans (1987) – We visit again the sword-&-sorcery subgenre called “Completely Unrelated to the Boris Vallejo Poster Art.” The only commonalities between this movie and the first Deathstalker are (1) the protagonist’s name — “Deathstalker” — and (2) the setting, “generic ancient pseudo-European fantasy world.” This time out, instead of…