Happy Canada Day

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Even though my Canadian roommate is in Baltimore today, I thought I’d recognize Canada Day with this favorite old comic book scan featuring the Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles’s visit to Ottowa where they are threatened by the Awesome Sho-Gun Super-Warrior (who appears to be a giant robot with super-inappropriate nipple cannons and pelvic spike [...]

Marry, F*ck or Kill

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Week 3, and people seem to be participating, so I’ll keep going. This week, we’re using fictional characters because you know how I love my comic books. Yes, yes, I know, I left out *your* favorite character. Get your own blog. I get to pick the contestants in this here part of the intertube. Choice [...]

Holding Out for a Hero

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

I see there’s a new hero factory meme going around. With almost 5 years of blogging under my belt, I’m starting to feel like an elder stateman, recalling “the first time” these sorts of things were all the rage. At any rate, here’s my new superhero self: Astonishing? Really? Although the new one has catchy [...]

You Have Some Heath Ledger on Your Face

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can’t savor all the… little emotions. In… you see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are. As seen on IO9. Order your very own at Amazon! Personally, I prefer my Spiderman ski mask when I’m out [...]

Adventures of Thor

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

It’s an animated GIF, so hopefully it plays.

Who Watches the Watchmen?

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Please, please don’t let this suck. The trailer is promising, but I’ve been let down before. I care about this almost as much as I cared going in to the first X-men movie. If for some strange reason you’ve never read Watchmen by Alan Moore yet, please do so before March of next year.

Mama, I’m a Marvel Whore

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

How to know if you’ve become a Marvel whore: While changing to workout at the gym, you realize you’re wearing your Incredible Hulk underwear, your oversized vintage Spiderman T-Shirt, and carrying your Iron Man movie promotional water bottle. Also, your trainer has nicknamed you Tony Stark for some reason. You’ve been on a date with [...]

Whedon loves his magic bullet references

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes yesterday. To clarify, although I joked, it’s not the getting older that had me reluctant to ackowledge my birthday yesterday. I didn’t want to celebrate my birthday because no amount of well-wishing was going to keep it from being a crap-tastic day. Call me crazy, but I think [...]

Comics! Free!

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

J.R.R. Tolkien thought the phrase “Cellar Door” to be especially beautiful. No offense to J.R.R. (I can call him that, we’re close), but if he had lived into the 21st century, he might have realized English contained a phrase vastly superior in it’s beauty: Free Comic Book Day. Jennifer, Jacob and I spent the day [...]

WonderCon: Day 2

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Today was made of awesome, wrapped in an awesome shell, and topped off with awesome sauce. Okay, so I had a really good time. I spent most of the day in the big hall watching the parade of stars,  including The X Files panel with David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz (although [...]