The Important Things

This guy I work with says, "I've really mellowed out the past month or so."We're preparing for a massive move over the weekend, almost everyone on my floor is shifting places, and he's calming himself down as he tells me and a co-worker about the storage facility where we can send the overflow of boxes of media kits, etc."I lost my mother last month."I hate moments like that, especially with people I barely know. I never know what to say and, not being particularly religious or anything, even the simplest platitudes like "God bless." are awkward. Worse, though, is that…

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Meet the Cast

Hard to believe we'll be married SEVEN years in July!!! I must've put up with some serious shit in a past life. And Salomé must've been pretty bad in hers.Mr. Incredible and Dash. I never said we weren't enablers!I'm SO dreading the teenage years...

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CBC Team-Up: Countdown to Power Pack’s Sea of Red

Comic Book Commentary's Dynamic Duo, Editor Guy LeCharles Gonzalez and The Sidekick Stephen Maher, team up to take on a clutch of recent comics, fighting for truth, justice and a decent read for three bucks! In this issue, they take on Marvel Team-Up #7, Firestorm #12, Power Pack #1, Lex Luthor: Man of Steel #2, Countdown to Infinite Crisis, Batman #638 and Sea of Red #1.Stephen Maher: So, did you get to read the books?Guy LeCharles Gonzalez: Yeah. Mixed bag.Maher: Yeah. Sorry about Moon Knight. Bwahahahaha!Gonzalez: Bleh. As bland as Kirkman made it sound. At the same time, the issue…

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Because You Demanded It!

Well, a couple of you anyway. :-)So yes, like Jay-Z and the common cold, I'm back again (Shut up, Omar!) slipping in quietly, hopefully able to settle in comfortably before anybody notices.What can I say? At one point after signing off here a couple of months ago, I decided I'd start using my LiveJournal account for the more personal kind of blog that I tend to despise, but there's something about LJ I've never liked and I only posted one thing of interest, along with a few dumb memes. LJ's great for commenting and the threaded discussions, but as an…

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Retro: Forgotten Realms #1-4

As an unashamed, born again player of Dungeons & Dungeons, I was excited by last month's official announcement that Devil's Due was on the verge of "acquir[ing] the license to the entire D&D® library." While I've enjoyed some of the D&D-based novels TSR/Wizards of the Coast has published over the years, too many of them have been bland, formulaic marketing promotions for their latest gaming supplements or campaign setting, and I hadn't picked up a comic book version in...well, ever, actually.My return to D&D two years ago coincided with my return to comic books, and it was at my first…

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ménage à trois: 3/30/05

[One Marvel, one DC, both published the previous Wednesday, plus a random indie from whenever I feel like it, each reviewed quickie-style: 1 Minute=bad, 10 Minutes=good. Connections, if any at all, may be forced purely for the experience.]On a comic book Wednesday dominated by DC's creatively bankrupt death and resurrection tales in Countdown to Infinite Crisis and Batman #638, it was tough work to pull together a satisfying threesome of graphic pleasures. So tough, in fact, that I ended up settling for a mixed bag of great (Mu #3), good (Batgirl #62) and, "It took how long for this crappy…

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Review: Frank Miller’s Sin City (Movie)

Sin-sational!?!In a word....hardly. In two words, not really; but in any case it's a movie that should be seen. In fact you can use just about any cliché in the book to describe Frank Miller's Sin City and be dead-on. It's a jaw-dropping, eye-popping, action-packed, must-see crime drama that's very well-acted. It's also a campy, over-dramatized, mechanically flawed film that tries to be too true to its roots. It's one big contradiction, and so is this spoiler-free review.Sin City is not a traditional movie adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City Graphic Novels, it's a direct translation from the page to…

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