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The Birthday haul (a/k/a “Game reviews to come”)
I had a lovely little birthday party with my wife, Melinda, and niece, Jenny. They bought a glittery banner and I realized I’ve never had a banner for my birthday party before. They also restarted a long-abandoned tradition of lighting a candle on the cake for every year I’ve been alive, and there’s a reason…
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Today I’m as old as Jack Benny
Today’s my birthday. The big 3-9. For the first time, I’m turning 39.
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New poll feature
Note the new poll on the right, there. Please vote!
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First new comics in ages!
Recently, I finally found a copy of the out-of-print TPB “Hitman: Local Heroes”. Zombie Night at the Gotham Aquarium is still one of the best comic book stories I’ve read. It has page-turner panels, splash pages, hilarious dialogue and a unique premise. If Hitman were to ever be adapted to the screen, it would…
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Wrath of Khan. 30 Seconds. By Bunnies
It’s been a while since the bunnies did a truly great movie.
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Keep up with Phil Meadows
Many of you know Phil Meadows from his time as the art director for Fanzing.com or as the illustrator of the comic works I’ve written (Job Wanted, Time Meddlers and Metro Med). Phil and his wife Sherry are currently in China adopting their second child, and you can follow their adventures in their blog. Their…
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Batman podcast part 2 is coming
I’m determined to get the microphone issues resolved. I know, you think I’d have done this by now, but I’m trying to track down the color-coding schematic for my Logitech surround sound soundcard. Then I have to pull the computer away from the wall and get my skinny little niece to crawl behind it, sit…
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Odd bit of plagiarism
As some of you remember, I got into comic books because of my late uncle Leslie, whose worn stacks of comics I would read whenever I was at grandma and grandpa’s. He was into the old Marvel monster books, some of which were narrated by three witches. Stories like a giant alien mummy inside the…
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Classic comic recommendations from the readership?
Hello everyone. My birthday is coming up and I want to add more variety to my Amazon wishlist. With my local comic shop kaput, I don’t really read many comics anymore. I’ve finally gotten down to the dregs of my stockpiled trade paperbacks, like The Transformations of Jimmy Olsen. After years of everyone raving about…
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Live by the teleprompter; die by the teleprompter
The Irish PM reads Obama’s speech, and Obama thanks himself because that’s what it said on the teleprompter. John Romano’s right: if this was George W. Bush, the video would be everywhere already.