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Chadzilla
Concord, California.
Chadzilla is the Internet handle for writer and critic Chadwick H. Saxelid,
Interests: Writing, reading, cinema, film scores, and comic books.
Recent Activity
So I was hard at work writing this story, see, attacking it (or just flailing at it) from all directions, when the house of cards that was its narrative structure collapsed in front of me. Seeing a story that I... Continue reading
Posted yesterday at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
There has been so much discussion over what did or did not "go wrong" with 2013's BayCon, over at the convention's UNofficial facebook page and on quite a few blogs - comments and observations being both good and bad, of... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
This review appeared in the May 2013 edition of the Concordian. I have read enough war stories to fully understand just how much of a hell on Earth the battlefield is. What has not been quite as effectively communicated, however,... Continue reading
Posted Jun 3, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
Real light haul this week: Crossed Badlands #28 & Night of the Living Dead Aftermath #8. Continue reading
Posted May 22, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
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"You have to get me out of here." A group of estranged friends and family gather together in an isolated cabin in the woods, so they might help drug addict Mia (Jane Levy) kick the habit. Something is not quite... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
This review appeared in the April issue of the Concordian. I doubt that I am alone in not giving all that much thought to trees. When I was a child, trees were nothing more than just another set of monkey... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
After taking a break from comic book shopping, I dropped by the comic book store and emptied out my save box: The Walking Dead #109, Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath #7, Crossed Badlands #27, and Godzilla #11. Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
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Not a lot of blogging time this week, as I have real writing to do, so I thought I would share the ultimate Over-The-Top Star Wars sequel that never will be: And the poster for it: And some Star Wars... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
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While this week has been a rather eventful one in terms of real world events and tragedies, for my writing, not so much. Saturday: 490 words. Sunday: 0 words. Monday: 0 words (spent the day watching the news, glues to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
As big (and forgiving) a fan of Moonstone's Kolchak: The Night Stalker comic book series as I am, Kolchak the Night Stalker: Bare Bones is not a collection that I would recommend reading. I fear it will test the patience... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
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"Work, stupid magic!" Three Boston University students, Shauna Brown, Mike Archer, and Katherine Rinson, are pulled into an alternate world of actual magic, ominous mystery, and dangerous adventure. When I first sat down at my computer, my intention had been... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
"Ah'm profoundly an' conspicuously mental." Andrew Frazer Jackson, a Scottish man clinging (with psychotic fierceness) to the belief that his insanity is the result of a former lover poisoning him with a chemical weapon, tells captives (more on that in... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
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I hit a crucial juncture in my outlining of a my writing project: the point where I knew it as time to stop planning the damned thing, and start writing it. Tuesday: 207 words. Wednesday: 674 words. Thursday: 518 words.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
"I'm the go-to girl for dirty deeds done dirt cheap, right?" Giles recruits Faith to undertake the most dangerous and distasteful of missions, the assassination of a Rogue Slayer. No Future For You is not just a Faith story, it... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
Secrets (featuring Titanosaurus): Tristan is a young man with an incredible, and incredibly powerful, psychic talent. One that draws the attention of United Nations funded Institute located just outside of Gresham, Oregon. While Tristan enjoys exploring and strengthening his ability,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
The indomitable and incorrigible Carl Kolchak, genre television's first paranormal investigator, returns in seventeen stories of the weird and the bizarre. When it was first printed, some seven or eight years ago, the anthology Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook served... Continue reading
Posted Apr 8, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!
"Somewhere there is a land beyond human understanding... a place we only glimpse in our darkest nightmares. It is the world of the weird, and you can explore it... if you dare enter... The House of Secrets." Abel, the caretaker... Continue reading
Posted Apr 5, 2013 at Chadzilla ROARS!!!