Over the last three days I’ve gotten no less than 40 messages from random people warning me about Candace Owens, AKA Red Pill Black. I was told she’s a fraud, a phony, a doxxing social justice warrior in disguise. This all came from internet rumors. Of course, I spent quality time with Candace this last […]
World Series Predictions And Other Baseball Matters
Earlier this morning I received a call from the Oakland A’s front office, folk a little higher up in the org than your standard fare. They called and said they were happy to hear me out and they were hoping that I might reconsider my season tickets for next year. I told them I had […]
Everyone’s Aware Of The SJW Problems, Now Do Something About It
Robert Tracinski wrote a nice article this morning on what it would look like to have a Culture War win. Visionary writing like this is necessary because we have to be able to envision the goal’s results if we’re going to figure out how to get there. However, I also think it’s premature. It’s only […]
Review: Rocky Mountain Retribution by Peter Grant
Peter Grant’s Brings The Lightning was my favorite fiction work of 2016, so I was thrilled to see a sequel come out this year. The first story is one of travelling west, working hard, and persevering through all sorts of adversity. It’s really a testament to the American dream, perfect thematically for a western and […]
Oh, There Are No Problems In The Industry
“I just don’t want to get involved.” “You’re just too negative these days.” “Extremist.” “I don’t like the way you’re doing things not necessarily what you’re saying.” I hear it all the time. Every time there’s a contingent of industry professionals or wannabe professionals who want to impress the old guard who’s rapidly losing their power in […]
Periscope: Playing The “I Don’t Want To Be Associated With…” Game
It’s a foolish game, and it’s a big one in comics and science fiction. It’s an enemy tactic to actually hurt independent thinkers in culture to force us into divisions that are rather pointless. I give my thoughts on it. One of my more important periscopes and worth a watch. https://www.pscp.tv/w/1nAJEWvvByXKL Alternatively, I will have […]
Alt-Hero Gets Mainstream Media Attention
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/vox-days-alt%e2%9c%b0hero-comic-book-answers-call-right-wing-challenge-sjw-marvel/ A nice article on the project, of which I’m excited to be a part of. It’s really making waves in culture because of how hungry people are for content that doesn’t signal to SJWs. Very encouraging. And with Chuck Dixon and my involvement, you can be sure it’s going to be awesome fun. Do […]
Interview With Dragon Award Nominee Daniel Humphreys
Yesterday, Daniel Humphreys released the second book in his popular zombie fiction series, A Place Called Hope. He stopped by the blog here to answer a few questions about the book and series: Zombies have been all over the media these last ten years with a lot of books, comics, films and tv shows. What inspired you […]
Marvel Comics Editor: All Men Are “Part Of The Problem” #ComicsGate
The implication is clear: all men are evil and abusers if only by proxy. Not to mention this is quite the marginalizing of male victims of sexual abuse. It reminds me of the way I saw a lot of posts this last year with you say “I’m not” that’s exactly what a Nazi WOULD say. […]
4chan vs. Shia Labeouf Season 7
This has been the most compelling reality show on the internet, probably of all time. I blogged about it a few months ago when the first couple of seasons of capture the flag occurred, so far with 4Chan undefeated even into this seventh season. Now the stakes are so much higher, and the flag is […]
The Book 20 Years In The Making
Last night I finished up my edits on what will be the first in what I hope will be many space opera / military SF novels set in this particular universe. It’s titled The Stars Entwined and follows an Internal Affairs investigator for humanity’s Interplanetary Navy as he navigates a powder keg of a political situation […]
The Orville’s Ratings
I’ve been talking about The Orville almost every week, reviewing each episode on my Periscope thus far (which you can follow here where I do daily broadcasts live, or I upload to Youtube later here ). It’s a fabulous show, capturing the heart and soul of Star Trek in a way I haven’t seen since Voyager. About […]
Star Trek Discovery Goes Full Toxic
As if it hadn’t already. When they started shutting down fan productions because of the show, we knew there was going to be trouble. When the producer started talk of “levels of diversity” we knew it wasn’t going to be much but a political show. They doubled down in their advertisements, stating the Klingons (who […]
Smoke And Fire
I’m not directly in the fire in CA, but I’m close enough where the smoke has made the air pretty unbreathable. Sorry for the lack of blogging, but because my kid has a lung condition and I thought it’d be best if we high-tailed it out of California for the sake of his breathing. We’re […]
The Power Of Rhetoric
One of the best parts of Vox Day’s Social Justice Warriors Always Lie book was the explanation of utilizing rhetoric vs. dialectic arguments. This is a small point, but something that flies over a lot of heads, and actually is the difference between success and failure in internet marketing and getting your point across in […]
A Second Alt-Hero Novel Is A Go!
It’s been part of the stretch goals, but I haven’t wanted to talk about it much until it was a sure thing, but I am now contracted for not one but TWO Alt-Hero novels for this cool project that keeps expanding, keeps getting better, and is fast becoming an intellectual property to be reckoned with […]
The Sci-Fi Elite’s Insulting Attempt To Erase History At NYCC
This weekend, N.K. Jemisin and Ann Leckie had a panel at New York Comic Con, one of the very few the book publishing industry can muster at these events. The topic seemed innocuous enough – “What Makes A Science Fiction Classic?” Something several friends could debate around a table, and is also something very hard […]
Praxis by Justin Knight
Last Friday, as I mentioned in my periscope earlier, we had a new science fiction novel come out by one Justin Knight, of which I had the privilege of reading an advance copy. Praxis is the story of a group of humans going to a mining colony for the first time, mostly focused on the […]
Interviewed On Geek Gab: Today At Noon Pacific!
I’ll be interviewed about the recent troubles SFWA’s leadership has given me over my journalism in science fiction publishing.
Chuck Dixon To Join Alt-Hero Team!
I’m frankly more excited about this than my own involvement. It’s a stretch goal that needs to be met, but Chuck Dixon has been brought in to write issues 7-9 of Alt-Hero. If you’re not familiar with comics, Chuck is one of the most prolific and most highly regarded writers in the comic industry. He […]
SJWs Ruin Board Games: FFG To Kill L5R Tradition
Legend of the Five Rings is a game I’ve played since it’s inception in 1994, in both card game and RPG fashion. It was a CCG, similar to Magic The Gathering, and for a long time it was hailed as an alternative to the game. I thought it was better. It required stronger tactics, more […]
Alt-Hero and Project Update
Getting a lot of traffic again this week from both the Marvel #ComicsGate article and the announcement made last night about Alt-Hero. First off, a cool interview on my writing background just went live here. For those new here, hi! I’m Jon Del Arroz, geek entertainment journalist and science fiction author with a healthy dose […]
Marvel Uses Stan Lee As Shield For Their Hate
This actually would have been a great example for the increased vitriol I was talking about in my last blog post, but I just saw this video Marvel released, where they had a very old and frail looking Stan Lee talk about how Marvel “always has touched on cultural issues” — a standard mantra I […]
As We Win More Bigly, Our Enemies Get More Desperate
What a couple of weeks its been! First, I want to thank my readership for their tremendous support and faith in Gravity Of The Game. I’ve only received great feedback on how wonderful of a story it is, and most of that is coming from non-baseball fans! Like always, I put a heavy focus on character and […]