Mourning,
A Tribute
Multi-Media
Genzine
Publisher:
AllGen Press
Review: Wow.
That's the first thing that came to my mind as I read the stories, poems
and tributes that are included in the zine "Mourning".
The zine is the first from the new AllGen Press and while it's sad that
circumstances were that this was their first zine, it's a wonderful debut for
the press. I'm happily anticipating
many more releases from AllGen in the future.
First off, the overall zine.
It's 200+ spiral boung pages of
I'm not going to try to comment on every single story,
there's
Gotham Burning, by D.L. Slaten.
This is the very first Batman
I rather wish there had been more Highlander stories. The one included, Always Hope, by Christina A is good, but
seeing as how the original Highlander lived in New York, it would have been nice
to have seen Connor's reaction. (in
other words, Beth needs someone to write more HL stories.
<bg>)
The Invisible Man story is good, although I stayed sort
of lost since I don't know the characters.
Not that it mattered, the emotions were the same shared by us all.
The Man from UNCLE story, The Day Jeffrey Died by Karen
Poitras and J.H. Hindman, is wonderful. I've
been a fan of UNCLE for years, but have never read much fanfic.
As with the Batman story, I was curious as to how it would work.
Again, it worked beautifully and again, there were tears as I read it.
In fact, I'm trying to get my sister to read the zine,
based on the Batman and UNCLE stories.
There are several Magnificent Seven stories that are
well written, but since I'm not a fan, I didn't really know the characters going
in. Kudos to the authors for
presenting stories that didn't depend on the readers knowing the details of the
show or the characters.
My favorite of the multi-media stories is No Degrees by
Jane Mailander. There are many
shows represented in a series of short scenes.
It's well written and shows the events of the day through the eyes of
many of our favorite characters.
The Professionals and Real Ghostbusters stories are well
done.
The Sentinel stories make up the bulk of the zine.
Not that I'm
There's
a Seven Days story that echoed what many of us wish
Stargate
SG1, "Please Let Me Help" by Chrys and "Together" by Sheila
Paulson are both very powerful.
Starman. If
there's a story that I had to say I didn't quite
The fanfic stories end with Starsky and Hutch.
Another story
The zine closes with a series of poems, essays, thoughts
and
whew.. If
you've made it this far, thanks! There's
simply no way to do the zine justice in any fewer words.
So now, go and buy a copy of the zine. $5.00 of the price goes to charity and it's a wonderful zine
to curl up and spend an evening reading.
Reviewer: virginia