Author Archives: Joe Skonce

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“Starsigns” #6

By | Nov 9, 2023 | Reviews

A successful action series needs to have an ebb and flow of exciting setpieces and quiet moments to breathe. Too much action and the story becomes numbing, the spectacle becomes meaningless. You need those moments to relate to the characters and help make them feel fleshed out and real, not action figures smashing together for […]

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“Edenwood” #1

By | Oct 26, 2023 | Reviews

Worldbuilding is hard. You need to establish rules, factions, conflicts, and complicated storytelling devices. If you’re not careful, what can be an exciting epic and powerful story can quickly be overwhelmed with a feeling that you aren’t exploring a strange new world but rather doing homework for a world that isn’t your own. But if […]

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“Star Trek: Holo-Ween” #2

By | Oct 12, 2023 | Reviews

While there have been plenty of “holodeck run amok” episodes of Star Trek, it’s always been an episode premise that I still love to see. It’s a way of paying homage to the multigenre origins of the original crew finding themselves on a gangster planet, an old west planet, or a world where Roman culture […]

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