Jasher Drake

listened to the audio drama version of this and it was so fun! very cool to have hicks in a lead role and was nice to have bishop back even though he sounds ancient as. newt was cute too.

godzilla fits so well into a pirate tale! love the inclusion of so many sea-based kaiju like ebirah and oodako but found all the secret society conspiracy stuff a bit lame. great visuals and cool monster fight though.

shout out to my ancestor sir francis.

cute little love letter to the jun fukuda era of godzilla.

might be the biggest barsoom boy on the planet rn - absolutely loved every second of this one! edgar rice burroughs is back with sci-fi ideas so out there for the 1920s that it's insane. we've got a new human protagonist ulysses paxton stepping in for john carter and the whole story style completely swerves away from big martian battles into this wild little tale about a ragtag crew of body-swapped nobodies.

the meat of the plot sees ulysses become an assistant to this mad scientist/brain transplant guy who's casually swapping brains between different bodies and wants to train ulysses up so he can one day move his own brain out of his decrepit body and into a fresh new one. but then ulysses catches feelings for this ugly old lady who actually has the brain of a hot young barsoomian local in her and he's like “no wait i love you but before we get married we're going to have to get your brain back into your original body because there's no way i'm marrying a wrinkly ol' crone”.

from there it just spirals. brains getting tossed into the wrong bodies, people waking up as the opposite sex, martian monkeys with the brains of men, legendary assassins brought back to life with new hearts, a whole society of wacky religious fanatics duped into believing their 100% fake god is 100% real.

burroughs frickin' does it again.

builds a world and a story so wildly original and full of bizarro sci-fi charm that i'm completely in awe. am i ever reading another series again??

r.i.p mario and marion... i think?