One, Two, Three, Four, We Don’t Want Your Siancong War!
The Siancong War, as some of you probably know, was Mark Waid and Kurt Busiek’s solution to having MU characters with origins or backstories tied to specific military conflicts. Create …
Category: Superheroes
Your Kickstarter and Humble Bundle Guide for January 13, 2022
Travis talks about some cool Kickstarter projects and Humble Bundle offers that you might want to know about!
At Christmas I felt … the sting of death!
Back in the 1980s I read a mystery, A Taste for Honey by HF Heard. It’s the first of three about “Mr. Mycroft,” an elderly, brilliant retiree turned beekeeper living …
“She could never love me!” Comics and disability cliches
For me, the best kind of film reference book is one that makes me see movies with fresh eyes. Even movies that weren’t covered in the book. For example, Heather …
I did not care, at all, how this strange state of affairs had come to pass
Reading BLACK WIDOW: The Ties That Bind by Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande earlier this year made me realize the way I read comics has changed. I picked up the …
Three things to vent about
Not the post I’d planned to write, but three different things in three different media irked me this week, so — 1)The TPB of Punk Mambo by Cullen Bunn and …
The Sandman that time forgot
(As I don’t have the clear head to do any writing on my aliens book right now, here’s another repost from my own blog). Everyone nerdy enough to read our …