Today, Warner Bros.’ Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, an animated film in which a Gilded Age Batman battles Jack the Ripper, is available for download, followed by a DVD and Blu-Ray release a week and a half later. The film made its world debut at the Newseum in Washington, DC on January 12th, and I wasContinue reading “Batman: Gotham By Gaslight”
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A Yard Sale Find
It’s Yard Sale Saturday in Dallastown. At least every other block, there’s a yard sale. I stopped at most every one I passed, took a glance, said a few words of hello to the hosts, and moved on. You get glimpses into people’s lives — the Hello Kitty collection here, the Hilary Duff CD collectionContinue reading “A Yard Sale Find”
Ellery Queen's A Study in Terror
DAW Books published in 1988 a Jack-the-Ripper anthology, Red Jack, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, and Frank D. McSherry. Recently reprinted by iBooks as Jack the Ripper, the anthology’s centerpiece is the Ellery Queen-bylined Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Terror. Never having read Queen’s novel nor seen its film adaptation IContinue reading “Ellery Queen's A Study in Terror”
Red Jack
I’ve had Jack on the brain recently. Jack the Ripper, that is. My friend Michael sent me an e-mail a few days ago. He’d just seen From Hell, the Hughes Brothers film adaptation of the Alan Moore/Eddie Campbell comic book miniseries about the Whitechapel murders of 1888. I’d started to write a response, left itContinue reading “Red Jack”