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Elric James CollvillElric James Colvill is a writer, historian, literary scholar, and an unabashed, lifelong geek. Graduating from ISU in December 2009 with a Master’s Degree in English, Elric has been feeling the love of the recession and is currently cobbling together a living however he can while he pursues his writing career. Presently he is re-editing his first novel, Weird Wyrd, until he feels it is acceptable enough for publication (which is difficult since he never actually feels anything is good enough, but he’ll just have to get over it). Also, he is working as the lead editor for a role-playing game system in development through one of his colleagues, to be released sometime next year if luck holds out. Elric published his Master’s thesis, Fear and Loathing in American Literature: Freedom, the American Dream, and Hunter S. Thompson and performed copy editing work for a scholarly treatment of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief (sounds bloody exciting, doesn’t it?) in cooperation with senior editor and project leader, Dr. Matthew Wynn Sivils, in 2009. Elric’s main areas of writing interest lie in science-fiction and fantasy, both humorous and dramatic. email button

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[By Elric Colvill | 21 Jul 2010 | No Comment]
Off the Beaten Path: Blade of the Immortal

Hello, everyone. I have returned once more with another somewhat obscure manga offering this week: Blade of the Immortal. Where my previous offering, Excel Saga, is a humorous, off-the-wall series, Blade of the Immortal is considerably different. If you are a fan of samurai stories, stylish violence, wit, bizarre characters, and deep story, then this might be for you. Read on to learn more.
Blade of the Immortal, known as Mugen no Junin in Japan (literally meaning Inhabitant of Infinity), comes to us from the imagination of Hiroaki Samura, a classically …

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[By Elric Colvill | 7 Jul 2010 | 4 Comments]
Off the Beaten Path: Excel Saga

If anyone has perused my bio here even a little, they will know that I am a fan of anime and manga – Japanese cartoons and comics, typically of a more adult nature. And not “dirty” adult, but grown-up focused instead. One such series, a favorite of mine since 2002 when I first noticed it, has been a small-market series called Excel Saga, created by Japanese mangaka Rikudo Koshi. Excel Saga might be familiar to some reading this, but not in the context I am writing about today. The most …

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[By Elric Colvill | 23 Jun 2010 | One Comment]
Egg on face, foot in mouth, head up ass: The joys of American politics

I can’t help but marvel at just how worthless our would-be leaders are anymore. I cannot claim to know all the ins and outs of our political system and merely speak as one of the faceless millions, but I cannot help but feel that our entire system of government is completely broken. Now you are likely sitting there saying “duh, when did you figure that out?” But I don’t simply mean “busted-down,” I don’t mean “in desperate need of maintenance and repair,” I mean “broken beyond all recognition, totaled, and …