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Daniel Angelo Monaco is a former resident of Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Illinois, and, at some point, California. He’s a graduate of Southern Illinois University and has previously worked as a video journalist, radio news reporter, shoe salesman, office manager, set dresser on a soft core porn set, and a production assistant on various reality TV shows. He once took Gene Simmons’ lunch order and once tried to eat a four pound steak. He likes science fiction, loves horror, craves fantasy, and feels ambiguous about reality in general. Currently he works at Louisiana State University where he also attends graduate school. He originally took up writing because he thought calling yourself a “writer” is a really classy way to say “heavy drinker”.

 
By: Daniel Monaco June 18, 2015

1993, Part Two: Jurassic World, “Originality”, Creativity, and the Fine Art of Making a Proper Summer Blockbuster

This started out as a straight up review of the movie Tomorrowland but as I started writing it, I ran into the same problem I had when I tried to review Jupiter Ascending a few months ago. At a certain point a movie becomes so bad that reviewing it becomes almost counter productive. It’s like yelling at a […]

 
By: Daniel Monaco February 27, 2015

Leonard Nimoy, 1931 – 2015

The New York Times is reporting that Leonard Nimoy, beloved geek icon, star of stage and screen, and the man who invented the Vulcan Nerve Pinch has passed away at the tender age of 83 years old due to complications from pulmonary disease. His fans knew this day would come eventually. Mr. Nimoy had recently retired […]

 
By: Daniel Monaco February 4, 2015

Race to the Bottom: Comics, Race, Gender and Fandom

The 21st of February, 2015 will be the three year anniversary of the day we lost Dwayne McDuffie. If he had lived he would have turned 53 this year and the reason I’m writing this article, the reason I want everyone to remember Dwayne McDuffie’s passing, is two fold: Part 1: Dwayne McDuffie was a ground breaking […]

 
By: Daniel Monaco January 30, 2015

“I Say, Good Riddance”: The Ultimate Universe, Marvel, and the Fall of “Wide Screen Comics”

Okay, I notice that a lot of my posts have been following a pattern where I build up my opinion to make it seem more controversial than it actually is by pretending to be the brave hero who drops truth bombs on everybody and then levels two barrels of bad ass commentary with an in […]

 
By: Daniel Monaco January 15, 2015

It Came From The Big Easy: Three if by Space Invades the New Orleans Comic Con

So yeah, I need to get a computer at home. That much is obvious. Because you see if I had a computer at home I would be able to post these gorgeous, fantastic, amazing photos the day I got back from the astounding, amazing, spectacular New Orleans Comic Con and not today on friggin’ Thursday. […]

 
By: Daniel Monaco December 11, 2014

Anime For People Who Hate Anime: One Man’s Desperate Attempt to Actually Like Something He Hates

Okay, I am going to confess something to all of you and I would like that confession to be met with the respect it deserves: I hate Anime. I recognize that’s probably not the most popular opinion here on Three if by Space where all of our most heavily trafficked articles are written by and […]

 
By: Daniel Monaco December 10, 2014

“It’s Not You, It’s Me!”- It’s Time To Break Up With DC Superhero Movies

Dear DC Superhero People, Hi, I’m Daniel Angelo Monaco, I’m the guy who spent his lunch money in the 90s on all of your crap. You may remember me as that middle school kid who bought a special edition of Batman Year One and thus helped you put a down payment on that yacht you […]

 
By: Daniel Monaco November 17, 2014

The Red Mist Descends: Universal Exec Confirms Everyone At Universal is Stupid

When Pirates of the Caribbean 4 came out and I went on my last violent rampage through Burbank, I promised myself and that district court judge I wasn’t going to murder anymore Hollywood Executives. I mean, honestly it was really very nice of the LAPD to let me off with a misdemeanor to begin with and all of those […]

 
By: Daniel Monaco November 11, 2014

Class Warfare: Tabletop RPG Sucks and It’s Your Fault

I want you to understand something important before we get started,  I love the thing that I am about to criticize. I spent a hundred and fifty dollars in money I didn’t have last year on table top RPG materials I probably shouldn’t have bought and the reason is because I love this stuff. Obviously […]

 
By: Daniel Monaco November 4, 2014

“Welcome To Abilene”: DC’s Next Big Idea and Why it’s Going To Annoy You

Let’s talk about DC Comics for a moment, you remember them right? I know everybody forgets that there is such a thing as a “Not Marvel Comics” out there but I assure you, they exist. DC Comics, they publish Batman, remember?   So let’s take a trip back to 2011, an ancient age separated from […]