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Today has not been a very good day for me so far. I’ve gotten things done and I can look back on the past few days and recognize how much I’ve accomplished on this working vacation, but at the same time, I’m feeling monumentally overwhelmed. I’m taking on a lot right now, but it’s all [...]
I’ve taken this entire week off from work as vacation time. I’m using this week to recharge my batteries and relax a bit, but I’m also taking this time to clean my living space and start getting ready for my move to Lawrence, KS. And I’m mostly using this week to get myself more organized, [...]
Of all the superheroes coming out this spring and summer, the one I’ve been excited about the most is Green Lantern. I don’t generally read reviews, but just before the movie came out, I was seeing advanced word on Twitter that was discouraging me. Green Lantern just wasn’t getting very good advanced reviews or a [...]
Few things give me as much pleasure as reading a cracking-good superhero comic. I grew up reading superhero comics–I can barely remember a time when I didn’t have superhero comics in my life–and they still haven’t lost their appeal. I love bright, colorful stories of brave people in absurd costumes wielding strange weapons and using [...]
I dreamed of George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones. Except I’ve never read the book or seen the TV series adaptation, so my mind filled in all of the blanks. But in the dream, this is how the book was. There were a group of fantasy late-medieval/early-Renaissance kingdoms constantly intriguing against each others. These [...]
As I’ve mentioned, DC Comics is doing a huge reboot of all of its comics, starting everything over at #1 and introducing a bunch of new titles. Sadly, the more I learn about the reboot, the less enthused I am about it. Some of my dismay at the reboot is fairly petty. For example, I [...]
Those summer days were long and weary, but full of the plump expectations of rain and regret that seemed to always punctuate our time together. I remember strolling down the great, stone steps to the shore, your soft hand in mine, as we chatted about the nights we’d lost to alcohol and fireworks, our clothes [...]
You know how a musician will put an add up somewhere saying something like, “Guitarist seeking musicians to jam with”? This is something like that. I love writing. Even when a particular bit of writing is giving me fits, I love the act of writing. I always feel much happier after I’ve done some writing, [...]
The biggest comics news in a long, long time–if you haven’t already heard–is that starting in September, DC Comics will be releasing new comics digitally on the same day they’re released in physical stores. As I understand it, that’s huge, considering retailers have fought hard to keep this from happening. But I don’t buy or [...]
