Brain Dump: Thanksgiving Edition
Turkey Day was as close to perfect as I could imagine; Salomé and the kids, a few friends, some good food, low-stress. Friday we hung out in Jersey, and Saturday and Sunday we chilled. Priceless! Five things I’m thankful for, in no particular order (except for the first one): 1) Salomé, Isaac and India: Without
CBC Quickees: Home Sick Edition
Can’t title these by the previous Wednesday anymore since my posting schedule and To Read pile are wildly out of sync. Been home sick most of this week, though, and have been able to cut the pile almost in half. Rocketo #1 and XIII #1 are still buried at the bottom, and I’m thinking I’ve
Holy Cow!
Just finished polishing off the first draft of my first official paper of the semester, for my Schooling in America class. Like 5 minutes ago, at 1:45am, when the last of 9 pages came out of the printer. Because I tend to edit as I go along, and do most of my research as I’m
Industry Buzz #3: Flawed Diamond?
There was some interesting buzz last month about Diamond Comic Distributor’s policy of canceling orders for comic books that don’t reach certain thresholds, a move which, long story short, primarily affects small press titles selling under 1,500 copies/issue, and it’s led to the inevitable speculation about the eventual demise of independent publishers. The fact that
On The Shelves: 9/28/05
Support GOOD Comics! Try something NEW! My weekly look at select comic books being released tomorrow, 9/28/05. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not, find another
CBC Quickees: 9/14/05
Better late than never, and it’s a small but mostly good batch… All-Star Batman & Robin The Boy Wonder #2 (DC Comics, $2.99): Oh, Frank, what in the hell are you doing? On first read, I groaned at how bad the scripting was, particularly Batman who sounds like a crazed Adam West auditioning to play
On The Shelves: 9/21/05
Support GOOD Comics! Try something NEW! My weekly look at select comic books being released tomorrow, 9/21/05. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not, find another
INFO: Baltimore Comic-Con *UPDATE*
UPDATE: Turns out I’ll be heading down for this after all, albeit only for Saturday, so the end of this post still applies. I doubt I’ll hit any of the panels, except for the DC Comics: A Look Ahead at 12pm, but I’ll definitely be wandering the floor, looking for interesting comics and passing out
First Day of School, Part I
You expect there to be some tears on a day like this, your kid’s first day of school. Today, it was India’s, and while I didn’t expect her to have too much of a problem with it – especially since we took her in, hung out for a bit, and picked her up – I
D&D: Mateo Cor Marak
Mateo Cor Marak Tiefling Rogue/Lvl 3 Male, 21yo, Chaotic Neutral Born into slavery in Innarlith (Lake of Steam) to the human concubine of a once-powerful wizard, Mateo was abducted by the local enclave of Red Wizards when the truth of his fiendish bloodline became known – Rakshasa, given away by his catlike eyes and pointed