As comic book writers go, Brian K. Vaughan has a pretty solid batting average. He created the Eisner Award-winning Y: The Last Man, the singular Ex Machina, and Marvel’s Runaways, all of which are great titles. (I have some quibbles…
SnoutCast #7: Dungeons, Dragons, and Dealin’ With It
Longest. Podcast. EVER So far. [ Download mp3 – 59 MB ] 0:00:00 – Disclaimer, à la Better off Ted0:02:14 – Belated trivia answer: Corby sculpted the final DRUID case design0:02:59 – How is Dungeons & Dragons like The Game?0:05:05 –…
Nigh of the Tiger
So… I’m an uncle. Well, technically, I was an uncle before–by marriage–but this is the first of the next generation with any of my family’s DNA: That’s baby Kara, born last night to my sister Joy and her husband Jon….
Comic Book Report: Planet Hulk
I’ll be honest: I was never really into Marvel comics. I don’t have anything against them; they just never spoke to me in the same way the mythic characters of the DC universe did. So it doesn’t bother me as…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Technobabble”
I was having a hell of a time writing this week’s story. I’d started at least three different pieces since last week, but couldn’t get traction on any of them. Then it was after ten o’clock Thursday night, and I…
Comic Book Report: Scalped Vol. 4
Kurt Busiek himself recommended Scalped to me last year, and he was not wrong. (That in itself is a bit of a story–he was signing at Excalibur Comics on Free Comic Book Day, and when I stopped by during a…
Comic Book Report: Star Trek New Frontier
I cannot recommend this book. It collects “Turnaround,” a five-issue miniseries published by IDW in 2008. And while I realize it’s part of an ongoing storyline, there’s just too much “continuity bingo”–which is a phrase I just made up to…
I am a LOLcat!
Think you can come up with a better caption for this photograph? I dare you!
Friday Flash Fiction: “Practice”
I don’t remember why, but while driving around earlier this week I wondered aloud to D what the world might be like if people were fans of things besides TV shows and movies–if, for example, there was a fandom for…