Ranged Touch
@rangedtouch.bsky.social
Bespoke critical deep dives. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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If you still hunger for more JUST KING THINGS, our Patreon-exclusive BONUS EPISODE this month is a wide-ranging edition of the yearly Q&A special where Michael talks a great deal about Dean Koontz and CMRN shares a story about coyotes and brave wives: www.patreon.com/posts/just-k...
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
If you still hunger for more JUST KING THINGS, our Patreon-exclusive BONUS EPISODE this month is a wide-ranging edition of the yearly Q&A special where Michael talks a great deal about Dean Koontz and CMRN shares a story about coyotes and brave wives: www.patreon.com/posts/just-k...
We return to the question of BASEBALL this month for a rather light lift on JUST KING THINGS, as a fairly solid co-authored short story is, for some reason, touted as a standalone novella with A FACE IN THE CROWD, giving us opportunity to discuss King's "cash-in" era: rangedtouch.com/2025/11/10/a...
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We return to the question of BASEBALL this month for a rather light lift on JUST KING THINGS, as a fairly solid co-authored short story is, for some reason, touted as a standalone novella with A FACE IN THE CROWD, giving us opportunity to discuss King's "cash-in" era: rangedtouch.com/2025/11/10/a...
SHELVED BY GENRE completes Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's FROM HELL, learning a great deal of things in another barn-burner 4-hour episode! Plus, if you pay close attention, you'll catch the official announcement of our NEXT UNIT. Listen in: rangedtouch.com/2025/11/07/f...
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
SHELVED BY GENRE completes Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's FROM HELL, learning a great deal of things in another barn-burner 4-hour episode! Plus, if you pay close attention, you'll catch the official announcement of our NEXT UNIT. Listen in: rangedtouch.com/2025/11/07/f...
A sneaky weekend drop of the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we spend 3 hours talking about a book that is 80 pages long! It's worth it, though, as few texts have been as impactful on how we talk about our present moment as Mark Fisher's CAPITALIST REALISM:
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November 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A sneaky weekend drop of the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we spend 3 hours talking about a book that is 80 pages long! It's worth it, though, as few texts have been as impactful on how we talk about our present moment as Mark Fisher's CAPITALIST REALISM:
rangedtouch.com/2025/10/31/8...
rangedtouch.com/2025/10/31/8...
Five-star runtime? More like five PENTAGRAM runtime! Today Shelved by Genre talks for over four hours about the first nine chapters of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's high concept Jack the Ripper yarn FROM HELL, bringing all our diverse pools on knowledge to bear: rangedtouch.com/2025/10/24/f...
October 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Five-star runtime? More like five PENTAGRAM runtime! Today Shelved by Genre talks for over four hours about the first nine chapters of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's high concept Jack the Ripper yarn FROM HELL, bringing all our diverse pools on knowledge to bear: rangedtouch.com/2025/10/24/f...
A new JUST KING THINGS bonus ep, available to all our Patreon supporters: we tackle 1994's THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, the best movie of all time according to IMDb, perhaps because of how immaculately it's made and how confusing its message actually is. www.patreon.com/posts/141116...
October 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A new JUST KING THINGS bonus ep, available to all our Patreon supporters: we tackle 1994's THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, the best movie of all time according to IMDb, perhaps because of how immaculately it's made and how confusing its message actually is. www.patreon.com/posts/141116...
The saga of Roland and the Dark Tower is over, but that doesn't mean there's not more to be seen in Mid-World! 2012's A WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE has some stuff to say about werewolves, storms, matricidal forgiveness, little trains, and of course, Elf Language rangedtouch.com/2025/10/13/t...
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The saga of Roland and the Dark Tower is over, but that doesn't mean there's not more to be seen in Mid-World! 2012's A WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE has some stuff to say about werewolves, storms, matricidal forgiveness, little trains, and of course, Elf Language rangedtouch.com/2025/10/13/t...
SHELVED BY GENRE has completed the second half of THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, in which Alan Moore & Co expand the character's mythology, making some truly baffling and ill-advised choices but also giving us some of the coolest-looking Swamp Things ever put on paper. rangedtouch.com/2025/10/10/s...
October 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
SHELVED BY GENRE has completed the second half of THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, in which Alan Moore & Co expand the character's mythology, making some truly baffling and ill-advised choices but also giving us some of the coolest-looking Swamp Things ever put on paper. rangedtouch.com/2025/10/10/s...
This month's GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES is a little bit of a swerve. @ckunzelman.bsky.social talks to @jacobgeller.com about YouTube essaying and how it intersects with knowledge production! rangedtouch.com/2025/09/30/8...
September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This month's GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES is a little bit of a swerve. @ckunzelman.bsky.social talks to @jacobgeller.com about YouTube essaying and how it intersects with knowledge production! rangedtouch.com/2025/09/30/8...
Today on SHELVED BY GENRE we continue our Alan Moore unit by talking about the first three books of SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING and we also talk about how this guy sounds like Jiminy Cricket. rangedtouch.com/2025/09/26/s...
September 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Today on SHELVED BY GENRE we continue our Alan Moore unit by talking about the first three books of SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING and we also talk about how this guy sounds like Jiminy Cricket. rangedtouch.com/2025/09/26/s...
We asked and Chicoblue from the discord delivered. We present this for you to witness:
September 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
We asked and Chicoblue from the discord delivered. We present this for you to witness:
The cabaret is leaving town--SHELVED BY GENRE today discusses the last book of V FOR VENDETTA, in which everything sort of wraps up, and we wonder which debonair antiheroes might be our next object of fixation: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/12/v...
September 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The cabaret is leaving town--SHELVED BY GENRE today discusses the last book of V FOR VENDETTA, in which everything sort of wraps up, and we wonder which debonair antiheroes might be our next object of fixation: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/12/v...
Meanwhile on Patreon, our Bonus Episode for this month covers the TV miniseries adaptation of 11/22/63, which features some incredible performances and interesting changes, and also one of the worst performances we've seen in a King adaptation, or maybe anything! www.patreon.com/posts/just-k...
September 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Meanwhile on Patreon, our Bonus Episode for this month covers the TV miniseries adaptation of 11/22/63, which features some incredible performances and interesting changes, and also one of the worst performances we've seen in a King adaptation, or maybe anything! www.patreon.com/posts/just-k...
JUST KING THINGS heads to the local diner to discuss one high school teacher's mission to go back in time and teach more high school, and also get a girlfriend, learn how microphones work, and if he has time, stop the Kennedy assassination. It's all here in 11/22/63: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/08/1...
September 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
JUST KING THINGS heads to the local diner to discuss one high school teacher's mission to go back in time and teach more high school, and also get a girlfriend, learn how microphones work, and if he has time, stop the Kennedy assassination. It's all here in 11/22/63: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/08/1...
This week it's a Shelved By Genre bonus ep, and Patreon supports can hear us talk about one of V for Vendetta's key influences, the absurd, campy, and immaculate revenge flick THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES: www.patreon.com/posts/138200...
September 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This week it's a Shelved By Genre bonus ep, and Patreon supports can hear us talk about one of V for Vendetta's key influences, the absurd, campy, and immaculate revenge flick THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES: www.patreon.com/posts/138200...
A new unit begins today on SHELVED BY GENRE, now covering selected works of Alan Moore. We kick things off with a long chat on the first two books of V FOR VENDETTA, making time to offer up some of our trademark earthshaking reinterpretations of the classics: rangedtouch.com/2025/08/29/v...
August 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A new unit begins today on SHELVED BY GENRE, now covering selected works of Alan Moore. We kick things off with a long chat on the first two books of V FOR VENDETTA, making time to offer up some of our trademark earthshaking reinterpretations of the classics: rangedtouch.com/2025/08/29/v...
The next unit of SHELVED BY GENRE is here: from now through when 2025 restarts at the end of the year, we're taking a long but not exhaustive look at "Alan Moore qua Alan Moore"—some early and later work, some major and some more marginal, all geared toward contemplating This Guy and His Deal.
August 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The next unit of SHELVED BY GENRE is here: from now through when 2025 restarts at the end of the year, we're taking a long but not exhaustive look at "Alan Moore qua Alan Moore"—some early and later work, some major and some more marginal, all geared toward contemplating This Guy and His Deal.
For our Hallmark movie interlude on SHELVED BY GENRE, we watched 2006's 10.5 APOCALYPSE, a made-for-TV epic in which a series of massive earthquakes test the soul of a nation and everyone finds their personal nausea limit for the use of faux-documentary shaky-cam: rangedtouch.com/2025/08/15/1...
August 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
For our Hallmark movie interlude on SHELVED BY GENRE, we watched 2006's 10.5 APOCALYPSE, a made-for-TV epic in which a series of massive earthquakes test the soul of a nation and everyone finds their personal nausea limit for the use of faux-documentary shaky-cam: rangedtouch.com/2025/08/15/1...
On this month's JKT Bonus Episode, we're talking about the film adaptation of 1922, which is very good, and features a stunning performance by barefoot-is-legal advocate Tom Jane as A Jerk From the Midwest: www.patreon.com/posts/136231...
August 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
On this month's JKT Bonus Episode, we're talking about the film adaptation of 1922, which is very good, and features a stunning performance by barefoot-is-legal advocate Tom Jane as A Jerk From the Midwest: www.patreon.com/posts/136231...
Murder, revenge, malevolence, and marital strife: JUST KING THINGS covers King's first novella collection since 1990's FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, as 2011's FULL DARK, NO STARS shows Steve taking familiar setups of stories past and swerving straight into the grim and grody: rangedtouch.com/2025/08/11/f...
August 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Murder, revenge, malevolence, and marital strife: JUST KING THINGS covers King's first novella collection since 1990's FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, as 2011's FULL DARK, NO STARS shows Steve taking familiar setups of stories past and swerving straight into the grim and grody: rangedtouch.com/2025/08/11/f...