Last Straw Archive

Last Straw on Twitter: 1.0 Star Wars Anonymous

Posted November 12, 2024 By John C Wright

My “Last Straw” column on the platform formerly known as Twitter is up:
https://x.com/johncwright2001/status/1856377864083349871
The Last Straw is an ongoing autopsy of The Last Jedi — a failure that demanded Starquest: Space Pirates of Andromeda:
https://a.co/d/cNGCf7R
to revive pulp-era space opera in all its grandeur, wonder and fun.

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Changes Afoot!

Posted January 23, 2020 By John C Wright

Jagi, here.

Some of you may have heard, but Superversive Press–the publishing company that was publishing John’s more recent books and some of his older ones–has shut down. This means that any links you have for John’s new books are  no longer any good.

The non-fiction and possibly, in the future, some fiction collections, are now posted on Amazon directly by us.

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Interview: the Last Straw

Posted January 10, 2020 By John C Wright

My latest novel ‘THE LAST STRAW’ is an analysis, criticism, and screed against the second film in the Disney Star Wars trilogy, THE LAST JEDI, uttered with all the disappointed outrage of an offended fanboy, adorned by the wickedly poisoned pen of an editorial opinion-writer, but composed with the cold, critical eye of a professional storyteller.

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Protected: The Last Straw 16: No Future

Posted November 2, 2018 By John C Wright

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Protected: The Last Straw 15: Non-Theme of No-Empowerment

Posted October 26, 2018 By John C Wright

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Terminal Correctness in Star Wars

Posted October 19, 2018 By John C Wright
Is THE LAST JEDI so absurdly bad just due to accident? I say it was deliberate, to the degree that word has meaning when speaking of perfectly unselfaware, self mesmerized auto-lobotomy victims.

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Protected: The Last Straw 14: Plot Twists and Plot Plops

Posted October 19, 2018 By John C Wright

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Protected: The Last Straw 13: The Non-Characters

Posted October 12, 2018 By John C Wright

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Protected: The Last Straw 12: The Non-Fight Scenes

Posted October 5, 2018 By John C Wright

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Protected: The Last Straw 10: Nonfight on the Flagship

Posted September 21, 2018 By John C Wright

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Protected: The Last Straw 08: Spacehorses and Codebreakers

Posted September 7, 2018 By John C Wright

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Protected: The Last Straw 06: Dim and Dank On Planet Swank

Posted August 24, 2018 By John C Wright

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