Only two weeks ago there was snow. Today, it reached 75 degrees. And, since it was a Thursday — and thus, my weekly department conference call — I decided the best way to take that conference call was at the park up the street. No, literally. It’s up the street. It’s five blocks (I justContinue reading “A Day at the Park”
Author Archives: Allyn Gibson
Deadline Week
This has been a week. Honestly, the month where we offer the year’s Free Comic Book Day books is always a rough one. Usually, it’s something that’s done around Thanksgiving (the January catalog goes to press the first week of December), but with a later Free Comic Book Day in 2021, it was this month,Continue reading “Deadline Week”
A Cookbook Acquisition
I feel like every baseball team should publish a novelty cookbook once every ten years or so…
Investigative Cemetery Explorations
After a couple of mild winters, this year has brought the snow. Since the beginning of the year, I think there’s been a snowfall at least once a week, and for most of the last month there’s been snow on the ground. It hasn’t been warm enough to melt the last snow, and the nextContinue reading “Investigative Cemetery Explorations”
A Frumious Snow
Pennsylvania has been blasted with snow since yesterday. The forecast had called for anywhere between 8 and 24 inches of snow, and I think the total came in closer to the lower end of that spectrum. I cleared the sidewalk this morning, then cleared my car. Then it started to sleet and another phase ofContinue reading “A Frumious Snow”
A Song That Feels Like Warm Summer Days
I am of an age where, when I hear the name Stan Getz, the famous jazz saxophonist, I think immediately of the exchange in That Thing You Do! in which while the Wonders are interviewed at KJZZ, a jazz radio station in southern California, Skitch Patterson begins to talk excitedly about the music that reallyContinue reading “A Song That Feels Like Warm Summer Days”
A Puzzling Absence in the Frasier POP!s
This week, Funko announced POP! figures based on beloved 1990s sitcom Frasier. A Funko POP! figure, for those three people whom I envy for having successfully avoided them for the past decade, is a vinyl figure of a pop-culture icon (celebrity, comic books, film, musician, etc.) that stands about 3 3/4″ tall, has a weirdlyContinue reading “A Puzzling Absence in the Frasier POP!s”
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”
Remaking an Ebook Cover
When I was in college, I read Jean Airey’s legendary novella, The Doctor and the Enterprise. Written in the 1970s, it was a crossover between Star Trek (near the end of the Five Year Mission) and Doctor Who (between “The Deadly Assassin” and “The Face of Evil”). The text had been uploaded by Airey toContinue reading “Remaking an Ebook Cover”
Doctor Who: The Knight, the Fool, and the Dead
Steve Cole’s novel The Knight, the Fool, and the Dead, the first book in BBC Books’ Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious project, was in my shipment this week. I knew from reviewers that the book was short — maybe more novella length (ie., under 45k) than a full novel. I don’t think I was preparedContinue reading “Doctor Who: The Knight, the Fool, and the Dead”