LINK: Reality Check + NYCC Update
My latest Establishing Shots just went up, and I go off on a bit of a personal, real world tangent before ripping into idiot trolls: At this point, there’s some ill-mannered idiot out there reading along wondering why I’m not writing about Spider-Man’s new costume (I give it six months), or offering yet another opinion
On The Shelves: 2/1/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! It’s the beginning of Black History Month. Flashback: one year ago. Still one of my favorite posts. My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 2/1/06. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all
No news is good news
…for the time being, at least. I’d say it’s a 50/50 shot right now, which is actually a little better than what I thought a week or so ago. Keep those fingers crossed! In other news, I need a vacation. And another 3 hours added to each day! Ugh. PS: Cleared out 12,000+ emails from
Comics Took A Back Seat This Week
It was a rough weekend here at stately Gonzalez Manor, between a nasty virus laying the kids low and our respective exhaustion meters hitting their red lines, coupled with my 9-to-5 making it impossible to stay on top of my four-color fixation most of the week. Days like this are what escapist entertainment were made
COMMENT: Buzzscope Update
I just sent out an email to all of our columnists updating them on what’s what over at Buzzscope and, in doing so, was rather impressed with the roster we’ve put together over the past couple of months. Check it out: WeeklyRonée Garcia Bourgeois’ “What A Girl Wants” (every Monday)Jim Salicrup’s “Addicted to Comics” (every
Good Vibrations
If you catch this in time, at 10am EST, send some good vibes in my direction. Got a meeting that could result in a big personal change. 🙂
COMMENT: Comics & "the Mainstream"
The Comics Reporter’s Tom Spurgeon, in his first CR Sunday Magazine of the new year, said: “Screw being mainstream anyway. Comics has a lot of its cultural power not just as a secondary art form, but as a semi-disgraced secondary art form. I think because of their personal neuroses, which in many cases expresses itself
Farewell 2005
Don’t let the door hit you… No, not really! It’s been a year of extreme ups and downs (and the downs were particularly rough), but the end result has been relatively positive. For the most part. I’m too lazy to shoot from the hip like Salomé did, and I already covered the comics side of
COMMENT: On 2006, and Some Greatest Hits
Personally, 2005 has been a pretty damn good year, from a comics perspective. CBC’s barely a year old, quickly evolving from being a total lark to something central to reformatting my writing chops post-poetry slam era. (Not surprisingly, the activist angle of my work has transitioned intact.) Plus, I went from contributing reviews and the
Thanks, Santa!
Got the two things I wanted most this year: 1) Creative MuVo TX FM 1 GB MP3 Player 2) Vs. System: DC Comics JLA Deluxe Collector Deck Box Set Happy holidays!