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Some days it’s hard to find a blog topic, especially when the political noise is cluttering everything and making it very hard to focus on cultural items, but the lesson of all of it is — a lot of things are out of our control and we just have to keep working on what we […]

Last night I started reading Popeye by E.C. Segar, one of the earliest heroes in comics and maybe the first humor strip that had a continuing building narrative. The plotlines are simple, but there’s an elegance to them at the same time. The characters are wide-eyed, joyous about everything even their failures, excited for strange […]

I had not idea this was a thing but just discovered there’s a crew running a vintage sci-fi month. Every month is vintage sci-fi month for me, as when I read, that’s pretty much what I read. I just got finished with reading A.E. Van Vogt’s first novel, Slan, which was originally serialized in 1940 […]

Last night’s New Years Eve shows were about the saddest thing our culture’s ever produced. It was low budget, washed up D-Listers with empty streets and sad piped-in fake applause. It’s the culmination of everything our corporate culture has become: fake, empty, hollow, devoid of talent. Everyone’s incentivized to produce art which is functionless, meaningless, […]

You might have seen me rabble rousing yesterday about a former Marvel Comics writer Sean McKeever. He took to twitter to be a complete dick to me for my “crime” of having bought his book directly from his online store (to help support him) and giving it a positive review. This isn’t abnormal in the […]

In the 90s, Don McGregor was your Zorro writer. He penned one of the most famous Zorro runs from Topps Comics, as well as a daily syndicated newspaper strip. Those were cancelled, and a small start up company called Papercutz got the license for Zorro in the early 2000s. Papercutz is a company that specializes […]

I came across a very interesting blog from Marvel editor Tom Brevoort today, which went over a claim that Ditko/Lee recycled characters and ideas through their stories. When you’re coming out with as many stories as they did, looks, names, ideas get recycled to some degree. It doesn’t make one incarnation less original than any […]

Really funny moments on Twitter this morning. Baldwin’s wife, who goes by “Hilaria” even though her real name is “Hillary” has been caught faking being Spanish this entire time. Apparently, the Baldwins have a stalker who brought forth evidence of Hilaria faking an accent while she’s been getting interviews in Latina Magazine and the like […]

It might come as somewhat of a surprise to people, but I don’t let my children play video games nor use the internet. I’ve watched as so many in this generation raised their kids on ipads, staring at a screen like zombies from the age of zero, and they can hardly function in any environment […]

For those who have been following for the last couple of weeks, my dog’s had a big health scare. He’s a puppy, so it’s weird. Too many strange symptoms from a 104 fever to a lot of pain, refusal to poop for several days. It was really frightening. Doctors kept telling me there were some […]

I was curious as to Star Trek novelizations, as folk around here might know I’m a big fan of the show. When I looked into “where I should start reading” because, of course, they have their own continuity set up after the shows which has a zillion books, I found out it’s not-so-easily done: Look […]

“The biggest problem in comics is comic book fandom. By definition, the fan is single-minded, not interested in exploration and an open mind. This is dumbing down and deviation up.” – Steve Ditko Steve Ditko wrote many essays in his later years about the destructiveness of the comic book industry and particularly that of fans. […]