© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-tjanson Recent reviews written by member tjanson en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_312358243972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - They haven’t played together in over 35 years and two members of the band are now deceased; yet the Beatles still dominate the music and pop culture scene. Every year we hear about new Beatles material, previously unreleased, being found and presented... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~312358243972 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:14:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_312358243972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_221379661444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - There have been a number of books written about Bob Hope, but The Road to Comedy by Donald W. McCaffrey is the first to do a thorough critical analysis of the star's film career. It's possible that many people who were born after the late 1960's make not... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~221379661444 Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:15:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_221379661444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_220862713476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - The movie serial is a lost art form, extinct now for some 50 years although its spirit lives on in television with such episodic shows as "Lost", "24", and others. The last of the serials was many years before my time but I developed a fondness for them... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~220862713476 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:02:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_220862713476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_218969837188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Back in the mid-1980's when I was a regular reader of the Fleetway/Quality Judge Dredd comics, my favorite stories were always those that involved Dredd and Psi-Judge Anderson's arch-nemesis the ghoulish Judge Death. Death and his four Dark Judged... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~218969837188 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:13:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_218969837188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_218968526468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - My fondest memories of Harvey Comics were back in the early 1970's when we were returning home from vacation in the family station wagon. My dad stopped off at a Rexall drug store and bought me a stack of about two dozen Harvey comics. There were Richie... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~218968526468 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:04:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_218968526468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_212692864644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - It's always a special pleasure to read any book by Tom Weaver and "It Came from Horrorwood" is no different. Weaver is back with 20 more interviews of actors and filmmakers of horror and sci-fi films. The interviews in this book originally appeared in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~212692864644 Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:35:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_212692864644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_212692536964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - I first started collecting comic books in the early 1970's and then sold the bulk of my collection several years later to pay for my first car when I was in high school. One of the runs I held onto, however, was Master of Kung-Fu, and the main reason I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~212692536964 Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:31:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_212692536964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_191961403012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - In Nightmare's in Red, White & Blue, Author Joseph Maddrey traces the history of American horror films and how they reflected the culture, attitudes, and the social and political climates of the periods. He starts with an evaluation of the silent era and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~191961403012 Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:48:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_191961403012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_191960419972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - I guess it's pretty ironic that a comedy team that did over 30 films together over 16 years is most remembered for their horror spoofs that continue to be enormously popular to this day. In "The Horror Spoofs of Abbott & Costello" author Jeffrey Miller... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~191960419972 Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:35:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_191960419972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_189094071940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Seven years after his death, the art of Alex Schomburg has never been more popular, or more sought after by collectors. Schomburg was the preeminent cover artist of comic book’s golden. His striking covers depicting action and damsels in distress in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~189094071940 Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:37:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_189094071940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_188947271300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - When I first began collecting comics back in the mid-1970's, one of the first books I bought was Conan the Barbarian #42. The cover featured Conan battling a winged gargoyle, high above a city, while the gargoyle also held a comely wench. That book would... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~188947271300 Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:45:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_188947271300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_188823408260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Hard-boiled Detectives, mysterious heroes, shadowy villains, evil oriental masterminds, and dames in distress...they are the stuff of the pulp magazines and the subject of this wonderful book by Frank Robinson which traces the history of pulp magazines... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~188823408260 Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:26:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_188823408260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_182664072836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - When I was a kid...and I'm NOT saying when that was...decorating for Halloween consisted of mainly taping those old cardboard decorations of skeletons, witches, or bats, etc, on your windows, carving a jack-o-lantern, and maybe stuffing a dummy. Today,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~182664072836 Mon, 9 May 2005 13:51:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_182664072836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_181248167556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Marvel Comics began producing a G.I. Joe comic book back in 1982, the same year Hasbro rolled out the new 3 ¾” line of Joe action figures. The series was a big hit and would be one of Marvel’s top sellers for many years and spawn several companion... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~181248167556 Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:53:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_181248167556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_180748258948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Artist/Writer Mark Hansen is best known as the Creator of Ralph Snart, that manic character he created for NOW comics in the mid-1980's and recently resurrected. But Hansen created another character, equally as manic and decidedly more violent...the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~180748258948 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:36:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_180748258948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_180747538052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Sokora Refugees is a fantastically funny new graphic novel from TokyoPop combining fantasy elements and modern day humor in a refreshingly original story. Kana Tanaka is having a very bad day. She's late for class, hasn't studied for the big test, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~180747538052 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:28:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_180747538052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_179654397572?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Sign of the Shapeshifter is the third book in the Knights of the Silver Dragon series for Wizards of the Coast's Mirrorstone imprint. Wizards of the Coast is best known as the makers of the enormously popular "Magic: The Gathering" collectible card game... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~179654397572 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:04:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_179654397572?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_179654069892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - I don't collect many comic books anymore. Where I once had a collection of some 12,000 comics, I now have less than 200. I've sold off most of it but one thing I do still collect is comics that have a Christmas theme, particularly those that are... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~179654069892 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:59:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_179654069892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_176169913988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Wizards of the Coast is best known as the makers of the enormously popular Magic: The Gathering collectible card game, Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, and their related lines of fiction and home to top fantasy authors R.A. Salvatore and Margaret... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~176169913988 Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:11:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_176169913988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_175534149252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Wizards of the Coast is best known as the makers of the enormously popular "Magic: The Gathering" collectible card game, "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game, and their related lines of fiction and home to top fantasy authors R.A. Salvatore and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~175534149252 Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:17:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_175534149252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_175404322436?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Bob Burns is the foremost collector of sci-fi and horror memorabilia, and it's all kept in his basement. This book is a guided tour through Bob's remarkable collection of props, costumes and other items that Bob has collected for nearly 50 years with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~175404322436 Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:48:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_175404322436?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_175403667076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - The Wanderers is many things...an urban gang drama, juvenile comedy, changing of the times study and more. It works on all these levels and has become a certified cult classic. At it's core, the Wanderers is about the final death of the innocence of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~175403667076 Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:40:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_175403667076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_175257128580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Have you ever visited a city on vacation and wanted to know where to find the very best pizza? Well look no further than this well-written and comprehensive guide to America's favorite food...Pizza! Food Writer Ed Levine who has had a lifelong love... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~175257128580 Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:36:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_175257128580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_175255621252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - Based on actual events, Rosewood relates the events that led to as many as 150 African Americans being murdered and burned out of their homes in Rosewood, Florida in 1923, by whites from a neighboring town. This was all the result of a white woman... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~175255621252 Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:27:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_175255621252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_175250837124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tjanson - The Legends of Texas Barbecue is not so much a cook book as it is a reverent tribute to Texas-style barbecue and the legends who made it famous. As author Robb Walsh notes in his introduction, "Southern barbecue is a proud thoroughbred whose... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~175250837124 Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:14:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_175250837124?linkin_id=8003929