Jim Wright

I like you too.

Thanks.

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(29) The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, Matt Dinniman

Trains! Dungeons and trains!

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(28) The Donkey King, Emily Selove.

Subtitled "asinine symbology in ancience and medieval magic," this book is all about yelling loud with huge erect penises.

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"Overmorrow" is an archaic English word that seems to have at least three different origins according to the internet.

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(27) Carl's Doomsday Scenario, Dinniman

Carl is on town level, and fights weird vampire things.

The humor is mostly snarky pop-up windows in the text.

The out-of-dungeon antics are childish and not particularly believable.

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(26) The Sinister Pig, Tony Hillerman

Usually, the titles of these books have something to do with Navajo, or at least Southwestern Indian, religion. This one is used twice, but no explicit reference to a myth is given.

Drug smuggling through oil pipelines. Weird idea.

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I found this at Office Depot, saving some time going to the art supply store. But it had a drawing on it, so I drew Joe Brosky there.

Unfortunately, I only have the middle half plotted, not the end quarters.

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I need a shorter short to write, and maybe actually finish in a reasonable amount of time. How about this?

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Riffing off the 1964 trial of a similar name.

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Sci-Fi Largely Missed Excel Spreadsheets, Experts Note.

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*And if you like Reacher novels, you're illiterate.

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(25) Other Plans, Caimh McDonnell.

Right after I put him in a list of authors that show people are doing things right, he puts this out.

The plot makes no sense: stereotyped rednecks* are taking over a town and guarding high-tech weapons for an ex-military gun-runner.**

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** Similarly, the weird way the ex-military gun runners interacted with the rednecks (like they're all upper class), makes absolutely no sense.

This characterization is Reacher-level bad:* the baddies are mindless and utterly evil for no reason other than the author is mindless.

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* The inept woodmanship of the rednecks is directly counter to the skills most rednecks usually exhibit.

The people who shoot deer signs with shotguns are usually upper-middle class Irishmen.

They are here to be stereotypically racist so it's okay to shoot them.

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This novel doesn't seem to do anything except get a golden USB 9mm MacGuffin into Bunny's hands, presumably to be important in the next novel.

The inciting incident makes no sense. Would make a good farce if McDonnell was on his game in this one, but he wasn't.

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If you never want to get anything done, just wait until the time is right.