Tuesday 30 July 2024

Alrightreads: Tributes

Bali Rai, Doctor Who: Rebellion on Treasure Island

2023 / Library book / 228 pages

**

Patronising edutainment crossover. I was debating whether I needed to struggle through the more squarely kid-oriented ranges to complete this era, but I'll let myself off the book hook.


Rhys Hughes, A New Universal History of Infamy

2000-2004 (collected 2004) / Ebook / 183 pages

***

The painstaking Borgesian facsimile is more admirable than entertaining. Fortunately, things loosen up in the second half with more conventional Hughesian twptra.

Faves: 'The Honest Liar: Denis Zachaire,' 'Streetcorner Mouse,' 'Finding the Book of Sand'


Melanie Miller and Tom Golden, Blackadder 5: The Village Years

2011 / Ebook / 10 pages

**

Not terrible, until it sputters and dies along with the enthusiasm. Could even have made a viable charity special, back when its specific parody was a bit less niche.


Carlton Mellick III, The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment +2: An Adventure for 3-6 Players, Levels 2-5

2010 / Ebook / 215 pages

***

Standard metafiction given a horny juvenile nipple twist.


Peter H. Cannon, Scream for Jeeves: A Parody

1994 / Ebook / 86 pages

***

Not as funny as Alan Moore's weird brew, but it satisfied the craving.