Right now, I’m working on a collaboration with another author, which is both very cool, and tunes me in to some of the issues that come along with it. Not that this project is encountering any particular problems, but inside the process it’s easier to see where the problems might come in.

It was timely, then, that I ran across a couple of things ( Read more... )

Tarri and I went to see The Dark Knight last night. Very good movie, and highly recommended. The somewhat funny thing is that I spent today reading reviews of the movie, and I found myself agreeing with parts of the few negative reviews that are out there, but I still think it’s a great film. The buzz seems to like Ledger for an Oscar, and I can ( Read more... )

Jerry Holkins, a/k/a Tycho of Penny Arcade, has discovered the Anita Blake series. The comic is also quite funny.
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Something said in Ferrett’s discussion of the latest twists in the Spider-Man comics resonated with me for some reason. What was said was that Spider-Man was no longer a character in his stories, but a commodity. Ultimately it would mean that he could never advance as a character the way we usually think of it; Marvel has too much invested in ( Read more... )

All both of you out there who read DC Comics (I'm lookin at you, helaaspindakaas), can anyone explain WHAT THE FUCK happened with the Infinite Crisis garbage?

In my favorite titles, Green Arrow had just been stabbed twice through the chest and his family (not to mention city) blown to shit, and Batman had just watched The Joker blow up Jason Todd and himself ( Read more... )