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Blood & Tacos #1 by Gary Phillips, Christopher Blair, Cameron Ashley, Johnny Shaw, Matthew Funk
whatmeworry's review
4.0
Blood & Tacos is a collection of short stories and reviews written in celebration of the Men's Adventure pulp paperbacks of the 70s and 80s. If you don't know what they are you may well not enjoy Blood & Tacos but if you do then I urge you to grab it for you Kindle, it's only 77p for crying out loud.
It's not perfect, some of the stories are better than others (the title story was my personal favourite) but it is a whole heap of fun that made me laugh out loud a number of times and kept me turning the virtual pages. The writers involved pay homage to the frequently sexist, racist and reactionary Men's Adventure series with a knowing eye that cleverly and amusingly satirises the bigotry without getting in the way of the shoot outs and fist fights.
The best part is that editor Johnny Shaw is planning to do one of these a quarter and the second one is already out. The first thing I did after finishing volume one was download volume two.
It's not perfect, some of the stories are better than others (the title story was my personal favourite) but it is a whole heap of fun that made me laugh out loud a number of times and kept me turning the virtual pages. The writers involved pay homage to the frequently sexist, racist and reactionary Men's Adventure series with a knowing eye that cleverly and amusingly satirises the bigotry without getting in the way of the shoot outs and fist fights.
The best part is that editor Johnny Shaw is planning to do one of these a quarter and the second one is already out. The first thing I did after finishing volume one was download volume two.
matts's review
4.0
The idea was fun, but the first story was so clunky that I was worried I'd misspent my 2 bucks. But they got better and the last one, Blood & Tacos was great obnoxious fun.
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