Blood Tacos #4 edition by Brad Mengel Bart Lessard Nick Slosser Thomas Pluck Oren Brimer Johnny Shaw Literature Fiction eBooks
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There was a time when paperback racks were full of men’s adventure series. Next to the Louis L’Amours, one could find the adventures of The Executioner, the Destroyer, the Death Merchant, and many more action heroes that were hell-bent on bringing America back from the brink. That time was the 1970s & ’80s. A bygone era filled with wide-eyed innocence and mustaches.
Those stories are back! The quarterly magazine Blood & Tacos is bringing back the action, the fun, and the adventure. Also, the mustaches.
In each issue of Blood & Tacos, some of today’s hottest crime writers will choose an era and create a new pulp hero and deliver a brand-new adventure. Each issue will include 5-6 stories featuring action-packed mayhem written in the style of that bygone era. The stories might not always be politically correct, but whether satire or homage, they will deliver on every page. Fast and fun, action and adventure, Blood & Tacos.
So enjoy this serving of Blood & Tacos. And remember, if it’s too cheesy, it’s a quesadilla.
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Blood & Tacos is the brainchild of Johnny Shaw, screenwriter and author of the novel Dove Season A Jimmy Veeder Fiasco. When he’s not writing or teaching, he is usually in an undisclosed warzone working as the demolitions expert in the mercenary group, The Bushmasters. He also enjoys badminton. His website can be found at Johnnyshaw.net. Or follow him on Twitter at @BloodandTacos.
Blood & Tacos is published by Creative Guy Publishing, the company that brought you such fine books as Amityville House of Pancakes (Vols 1-3), Stays Crunchy in Milk, Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, Brine, and many others with odd titles but excellent stories.
Blood Tacos #4 edition by Brad Mengel Bart Lessard Nick Slosser Thomas Pluck Oren Brimer Johnny Shaw Literature Fiction eBooks
Johnny Shaw is funny as hell and his friends are funny, too. And I haven't even started the three Jimmy Veeder fiascos, yet.I recently sat down and gobbled four issues of Shaw's 'Zine, Blood & Tacos faster than peanuts from the concession booth en route to the lost elephant graveyard.
If I'd laughed any harder, I would have wet my bed.
The joke here is that the stories in B&T satirize those hairy-chested men's paperbacks of the 1970s and 1980s that featured knuckle-dragging heros fighting off hippies, communists, Mafiosi and other threats to the American way of life. The set up is, these tales were supposedly discovered by some of the top pulp fiction authors currently working in the field, including Nick Slosser, Ray Banks, Andrew Nette, Gary Phillips, Josh Stallings, and Shaw himself.
Number 4 features the Sanitizer in "The Potomac Penetration," a tale that is supposedly penned by Marion Hillberry (writing as Stack Grannett) but is actually the product of Nick Slosser, a writer who works at Murder by the Book, a mystery bookstore in Portland, Oregon.
The story introduces The Sanitizer, a former CIA agent working as a janitor at a nuclear power plant near Washington, D.C. who becomes involved in a phony meltdown that is intended to force evacuation of the nation's capitol so an army of Russian moles can steal the classified documents fleeing bureaucrats have left lying on their desks.
The scheme was hatched by the Scarlet Flower, a femme fatale who suggests to me how Jessica Rabbit might have turned out had she been raised a Young Pioneer in Leningrad.
For sheer insanity, there is Michael Muldoon, the vice- battling "Father Dukes," a rather punch-drunk former heavyweight who took up the cloth and a lifelong fight against crime after beating an opponent to death in the ring.
In a heavily abridged adventure called "Dopehouse Inferno" the good father fights his way through a building that is literally a den of inequity, seeking "The Piper," a crooked lawyer who controls all vice in Delaware City.
In the process, Father Dukes destroys the building, destroys The Piper, and destroys just about everything else within several blocks that has any material value.
The story was penned by Bart Lessard, author of Rakehell (2013) and of The Danse Joyeuse at Murderer's Corner (2011), masquerading as Milt Walsh, the supposed creator of the character. It makes liberal use of every ethnic stereotype in the book -- plus a few that I swear Lessard must have invented himself -- beginning with the hero, who is portrayed as the dullest-witted yet thickest-skulled Irishman who ever quaffed a Guinness.
The stories in Blood & Tacos are send-ups that lack the seriousness of the neo-pulp specimens in Thuglit and some of the other cyberpulp titles. But are they funny? My dear sweet god, yes!
How funny? Funny enough that at least two of the nights I was sitting in bed reading them, my raven-like cackling woke up my partner of nearly 47 years. Believe me, if you are willing to risk that sort of calamity, you'd best be rewarded by some cheap laughs!
Blood & Tacos has cheap laughs in profusion. (Were you expecting maybe expensive laughs from a publication that retails for less than a buck?)
If you are looking for serious literature that will force you to think Deep Thoughts and ponder Deep Ideas, Blood & Tacos will probably leave you a little disappointed.
On the other hand, if you are looking for a few hours of solid amusement, buy the entire set and have a ball: this 'Zine is the most fun I've had since I was a High School sophomore sitting on the can in the middle of the night and reading the old Harvey Kurtzman Mad Magazine anthologies.
All you have to do is find a way to muffle your laughter so you don't rouse the neighbors. . .
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Blood Tacos #4 edition by Brad Mengel Bart Lessard Nick Slosser Thomas Pluck Oren Brimer Johnny Shaw Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The featured story is a classic in hemanly fiction. Still the grindhouse of fiction If you lived for b movies and Corman style stuff this is great stuff
This book, while quite a fancy for adventure, has too fast of a recovery. Everything that is shot at Brick gets deflected. Unless of course it's convenient. Such as the blow to his head that causes him to dream and remember his past.
The tile conveys my opinion on this latter trend.
All known writers who now get off discovering ancient pulp, easy and uninteresting pulp( a collector might like it ), and fill this series with it.
Not my cup of tea. I like what most of them write. Not especially interested in what they unearth. And it is not the first time.
This was the end of Blood & Tacos for this reader
This was a quick fun book to read.
I look forward to each edition and am sorry to hear they will be only semi annual now, Lightening this sad news with the announcement of followup novellas in the future. I have really enjoyed the over the top wackiness of each offering. In terms of satire Blood & Tacos is no Troma, each author works hard to deliver a genuine a knock out blow like Father Dukes as he Mario's his way through inner city decay battling villains. Given that the Men's Adventure Books these stories are based on often fully read as unintentional satire these imitations are actually better than most of the real thing. Three of the stories, Brown Sugar, The Sanitizer and Apache Blood carry the action as well as any boom fest Mack Bolan novel being about as equally close to reality. Oren Brimer's parody of bad writing was more a comedy skit, but I enjoyed his LANDBOAT, the boat the goes on land despite the poured on silliness. If I were a smoker a cigarette would have fallen from my mouth.
Johnny Shaw is funny as hell and his friends are funny, too. And I haven't even started the three Jimmy Veeder fiascos, yet.
I recently sat down and gobbled four issues of Shaw's 'Zine, Blood & Tacos faster than peanuts from the concession booth en route to the lost elephant graveyard.
If I'd laughed any harder, I would have wet my bed.
The joke here is that the stories in B&T satirize those hairy-chested men's paperbacks of the 1970s and 1980s that featured knuckle-dragging heros fighting off hippies, communists, Mafiosi and other threats to the American way of life. The set up is, these tales were supposedly discovered by some of the top pulp fiction authors currently working in the field, including Nick Slosser, Ray Banks, Andrew Nette, Gary Phillips, Josh Stallings, and Shaw himself.
Number 4 features the Sanitizer in "The Potomac Penetration," a tale that is supposedly penned by Marion Hillberry (writing as Stack Grannett) but is actually the product of Nick Slosser, a writer who works at Murder by the Book, a mystery bookstore in Portland, Oregon.
The story introduces The Sanitizer, a former CIA agent working as a janitor at a nuclear power plant near Washington, D.C. who becomes involved in a phony meltdown that is intended to force evacuation of the nation's capitol so an army of Russian moles can steal the classified documents fleeing bureaucrats have left lying on their desks.
The scheme was hatched by the Scarlet Flower, a femme fatale who suggests to me how Jessica Rabbit might have turned out had she been raised a Young Pioneer in Leningrad.
For sheer insanity, there is Michael Muldoon, the vice- battling "Father Dukes," a rather punch-drunk former heavyweight who took up the cloth and a lifelong fight against crime after beating an opponent to death in the ring.
In a heavily abridged adventure called "Dopehouse Inferno" the good father fights his way through a building that is literally a den of inequity, seeking "The Piper," a crooked lawyer who controls all vice in Delaware City.
In the process, Father Dukes destroys the building, destroys The Piper, and destroys just about everything else within several blocks that has any material value.
The story was penned by Bart Lessard, author of Rakehell (2013) and of The Danse Joyeuse at Murderer's Corner (2011), masquerading as Milt Walsh, the supposed creator of the character. It makes liberal use of every ethnic stereotype in the book -- plus a few that I swear Lessard must have invented himself -- beginning with the hero, who is portrayed as the dullest-witted yet thickest-skulled Irishman who ever quaffed a Guinness.
The stories in Blood & Tacos are send-ups that lack the seriousness of the neo-pulp specimens in Thuglit and some of the other cyberpulp titles. But are they funny? My dear sweet god, yes!
How funny? Funny enough that at least two of the nights I was sitting in bed reading them, my raven-like cackling woke up my partner of nearly 47 years. Believe me, if you are willing to risk that sort of calamity, you'd best be rewarded by some cheap laughs!
Blood & Tacos has cheap laughs in profusion. (Were you expecting maybe expensive laughs from a publication that retails for less than a buck?)
If you are looking for serious literature that will force you to think Deep Thoughts and ponder Deep Ideas, Blood & Tacos will probably leave you a little disappointed.
On the other hand, if you are looking for a few hours of solid amusement, buy the entire set and have a ball this 'Zine is the most fun I've had since I was a High School sophomore sitting on the can in the middle of the night and reading the old Harvey Kurtzman Mad Magazine anthologies.
All you have to do is find a way to muffle your laughter so you don't rouse the neighbors. . .
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