Did FBI Director Kash Patel and I buy comics from the same comic shop in Richmond twenty-five-ish years ago? The news about the Punisher-themed challenge coins Patel had made for the FBI makes me wonder. I was not expecting to see a post about Patel and the challenge coins in Facebook’s University of Richmond alumniContinue reading “Pondering the Past”
Category Archives: Comic Books
The Wistful Adventure
A fun little piece of sponsored content dropped into my Facebook feed earlier this week — Dark Horse Comics is making figures based on the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit of the 1970s. The Hobbit I grew up with. The Hobbit whose songs I know — “The Greatest Adventure,” “That’s What Bilbo Baggins Hates.” Mock-ups of DarkContinue reading “The Wistful Adventure”
Tales of Diamond: The Great Pwnage of 2012
Last Wednesday, my eighteen year career at Diamond Comic Distributors drew to a close, all part of the ongoing clusterfuckery that is the Diamond bankruptcy. But my Diamond career almost didn’t reach five years. The tale was semi-legendary within Diamond Towers. It would be spoken of in hushed whispers, that someone did this, and whoContinue reading “Tales of Diamond: The Great Pwnage of 2012”
The Neil Gaiman Thing
I have been thinking today of an essay Neil Gaiman wrote almost thirty years ago, for an edition of Fritz Leiber’s The Swords of Lankhmar. It begins: “It is too often a sad and unwise thing to go back and read a favourite book. Favourite books are the treasure-chests of memory; just thinking of theContinue reading “The Neil Gaiman Thing”
Decorating the Bedroom
Late last year, acclaimed comic book creator George Pérez announced that he has terminal prostate cancer. Since then, the outpouring of love for the artist of Crisis on Infinite Earths, The Infinity Gauntlet, New Teen Titans, Future Imperfect, JLA/Avengers, and too many other projects to name from the comics world has been both massive andContinue reading “Decorating the Bedroom”
KIMOTA!
This morning Marvel Comics sent out a press release: KIMOTA! In honor of the 40th anniversary of Miracleman’s groundbreaking reinvention, Marvel is proud to announce the brand-new MIRACLEMAN OMNIBUS. This extraordinary collection will house the influential work on the character from all of its legendary creators such as Alan Davis, Garry Leach, John Totleben, andContinue reading “KIMOTA!”
Seen About Town
Well. I hope this church doesn’t have a pumpkin patch because with that kind of attitude the Great Pumpkin will not be stopping.
Thoughts on Mars Attacks Red Sonja
I had a bunch of unread comic books piling up, so yesterday afternoon I sorted through them, decided that some of them were never going to get read and put them in a box for recycling, then picked through the rest to read something. I wanted to read Lavie Tidhar and Paul McCaffrey’s Adler, butContinue reading “Thoughts on Mars Attacks Red Sonja”
And Then There Were Peanuts
Ten childhood friends, now estranged in adulthood, are invited to a weekend retreat on a secluded island. A cryptic poem and a message hint that each of these friends harbor personal and professional secrets and that soon they will each die in an elaborate revenge plot. These friends — these peanuts — may not makeContinue reading “And Then There Were Peanuts”
The Calculus of Future Comics Purchases
A few days ago I decided I just had to tackle the piles of graphic novels sitting on my living room table. I have reluctantly concluded I must go out and buy another bookcase; the question then will be, where will it go? One of the graphic novels among the piles was Batman: Gotham byContinue reading “The Calculus of Future Comics Purchases”