A Second-hand SPROCKET Review

The first supercolossal Candle Light Press maga-jam book SPROCKET: Gaps In Film (available in our store, hint hint) had it's first review from CLP friend (and author of the great foreword in ZOO FORCE: We Heart Libraries) Brian McNeil. He had a bad run-in with a cat last week (only scratches, so we know it wasn't the good Captain...) and now his arm looks like a human one only bigger. They didn't stitch him up at first to let the goo run out, but the goo kept coming.

He told me this while were in the concessions line before seeing THE HANGOVER together. "Get your own popcorn," he says. "I'm oozing pus." Anyways he decides he'll go to the ER after the movie to have them take another look. Before he goes, I give him a copy of SPROCKET to pass the time in the ER. You only think you've waited for stuff if you've never been to the Emergency Room.

About 10pm he left a message on my phone. He'd read SPROCKET and it had him crying laughing in the waiting room. The story of the Questoleros in particular, he said, drew the best response and had people looking at him for a while there.

So there you go--SPROCKET: Gaps In Film is funny enough to make you laugh even if you're in the ER with a mauled arm that's oozing pus. You're welcome.

--John