Beginning last year, I started keeping a journal in which I write down every movie that I watch. If I've already seen the movie before, I put a black asterisk by it. This serves a lot of purposes, including helping to jog my memory, but it's also helpful at the end of year when it comes time to assemble the top 10 list that I'm expected to compile ( Read more... )

You know I've been busy when it takes me over a week to post about this:

Hellboy in Hell, as anyone reading this probably already knows, marks Mike Mignola's first time drawing Hellboy in way too long. It also marks an entirely new chapter in Hellboy's existence as a character, and one that I've been very excited about since it was first announced ( Read more... )

It's no surprise that any new Hellboy book is a big deal for me, so I was very excited to get my copy of Hellboy: House of the Living Dead last night. I wrote up the following review, which is copied from my Goodreads accountNormally I'm not a fan of what I think of as "gimmick" stories. All too often, the gimmick is all they have going for them. ( Read more... )

A lot has been going on, which, as usual, means I've been posting less. Honestly, while I'll always keep updating my site here, the best place to keep up with me these days is probably over on my Facebook (I know, I know ( Read more... )

I had a surprisingly good Free Comic Book Day yesterday. I made it out to Elite, where I was surprised to see Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, which is always a pleasure. I wish I'd known they were gonna be there, I'd have planned for more time out.

I picked up the Baltimore/Criminal Macabre issue, as well as the Mouse Guard/Dark Crystal issue. I also ( Read more... )

I've gotten the luck of checking out a couple of comics in the last few days that are worth talking about at some (minor) length. First off, thanks to the good folks at Dark Horse, I was fortunate enough to get a free, unbound, black-and-white preview copy of the first issue of the new Baltimore series by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, and Ben ( Read more... )

I'm a couple of days late reporting back on this, but my weekend was a little busier than I'd anticipated. So: Free Comic Book Day was a success! Much better than last year. I got the Mouse Guard and Sixth Gun comics, as well as a couple of others. No place I went to had The Tick, but otherwise I'd consider it a good haul. I also bought a super- ( Read more... )

So, forgive the shortness of this post, but I felt I had to share this right away. There's going to be a crossover between Beasts of Burden and Hellboy! Basically, two of my very favorite (and very different) supernatural monster fightin' comics out right now are going to be crossing over for one special issue, with variant covers drawn by both ( Read more... )

Somehow I am just now learning about a big spread of articles done several months ago by Pop Matters to celebrate Hellboy's sixteenth anniversary. I accidentally stumbled across them by way of an article comparing Hellboy to Dylan Dog, which I found while I was talking to Reyna about Dylan Dog today ( Read more... )

Cullen Bunn has been posting some comic covers that captured his imagination when he was younger, and I thought it was fun, so here's one of mine (from the Grand Comics Database):


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