BEST OF APRIL 2023

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues, this time with a look at April’s best.

GOLEM (1980) – My review of this Polish science fiction film that is sort of a blend of Eraserhead and Patrick McGoohan’s series The Prisoner. An authoritarian dictatorship has risen in the aftermath of a global nuclear war. Click HERE.

NEWS ROUNDUP: APRIL 29th – The New York Times calls out Joe Biden for the explosion of child trafficking at his disaster of a southern border. Plus much more. Click HERE.

CANADIAN-MADE SUPERHEROES 1941-1950 – From well-known names like the superheroine Nelvana of the Northern Lights (at left) and the superhero Thunderfist to less celebrated figures like Freelance, Nitro, the Blue Raven and Commander Steel. Plus superheroines like the Wing, Ghost Woman and many more. Thirty-eight characters in all. Click HERE.

BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART THREE – The long, action-filled voyage of the hero Mael Duin, an epic myth dated to around the 900s A.D. Click HERE.

PATHFINDERS IN SPACE (1960) – The neglected British sci-fi television series. Includes my review of its sequels, Pathfinders to Mars and Pathfinders to Venus. Click HERE.

JESUS: A PASSION PLAY FOR AMERICANS (1969) – Before Jesus Christ Superstar and before Godspell came this rock/ jazz version of the last days before the Crucifixion. Click HERE.

ARK II (1976) – My review of this short-lived American science fiction series about attempts to resettle the Earth after a destructive war hundreds of years in the future. Click HERE.

JUSTICE SOCIETY/ JUSTICE LEAGUE TEAM-UPS – 1975-1979 HERE.  1970-1974 HERE.

BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART FOUR – The Vision of Adomnan: Centuries before Dante’s Inferno came this Irish myth about an Angel giving Saint Adomnan a tour of Heaven and Hell. Click HERE.

NEWS ROUNDUP – April 10th: Matt Taibbi exposes MSNBC’s fraudulent reporting HERE. 

BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART FIVE – The epic myth of The Expulsion of the Deissi. Think Game of Thrones meets Exodus. Click HERE.

THE BRICK MOON (1872) – “Ancient” science fiction about the construction and launch of an artificial satellite more than 80 years before it happened in real life. Click HERE.

CHARLTON COMICS SUPERHEROES – And not JUST the handful who inspired the Watchmen. I examine their characters from before they were bought by DC. Features over 30 superheroes, including Mercury Man, the Shape, Wander, Celestia and the Witch. Click HERE.

BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART SIX – The Cattle-Raid of Cooley: better known as Celtic Mythology’s answer to The Iliad. Click HERE.

NEWS ROUNDUP: APRIL 7th – Another elected official leaves the Democrats to join the opposition party, plus much more. Click HERE. APRIL 12th – The many Biden scandals. Click HERE.

BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART SEVEN – Bricriu’s Feast: Cuchulainn in the forerunner of The Green Knight, and The Phantom Chariot of Cuchulainn, about the pagan hero being brought back from the dead by God to describe his battle with Satan to Saint Patrick. Click HERE. 

THE CHALLENGE (1970) – Telefilm starring Darren McGavin and Mako as two soldiers placed on a deserted island to fight each other to the death. Click HERE.

AMERICA’S NOTORIOUSLY CORRUPT POLITICAL PARTIES GO ALL IN – Banana Republic America in all its disgusting nature. Click HERE. 

NEWS ROUNDUP – April 24th HERE, April 19th HERE

THE HERETIC (1996) – The independent superhero whose adventures were set in the same world as Hellboy. Click HERE.

BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART EIGHT – Features Cuchulainn in The Wooing of Emer, plus The Voyage of Bran, and Connla being lured to a mystic isle. Click HERE.   

NEWS ROUNDUP: April 17th HERE.

COOL NAMED COLLEGE SPORTS TEAMS – Hesston College HERE and Hawkeye Community College HERE. 

BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART NINE – Features the myths The Conception of Cuchulainn, The Wooing of Etain and The Conception of Mongan. Click HERE.