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The Comic Book Heroes by Jones and Jacobs

My job at Full Sail University has me in the company of a couple of “Comic scholars,” and while I often think they’re blowing hot air (yes, I’ve told them as much), they’re a lot of fun to be around … Continue reading →

What a bummer

Well, I had a blog all ready to go, but two events the last couple of days caused me to write this instead. The two events are unrelated, but combined just make for one bummer of a few days. The … Continue reading →

In the Spirit of Thankfulness part 2

My thankful missive was longer than I expected, so here is the second—but no less important—half of the 30 days of thankfulness. I’m thankful for… 14 my sister. Even though I was pretty mean to her when we were kids, … Continue reading →

In the Spirit of Thankfulness part 1

All these posts going every day on Facebook got me a bit in the thankful mood…but there was no way I was going to keep up with that. So, I offer, here in its entirety, my 30 days of thankfulness! … Continue reading →

Eric Shanower’s A Thousand Ships

I picked up Eric Shanower’s Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships recently not just because it was on the sale table, but because the interior art (not the cover!) drew me in. Be warned, some spoilers follow (as if you … Continue reading →

A Heart Scare

Most of you reading this know me at some level. I don’t think I get many random readers here, not on the usual entries, anyway (there are a couple of my posts that frequently get random visitors…I may talk about … Continue reading →

Recommendations

Recently I got a recommendation for a book of fiction by a longtime friend (thanks, Bill!). He read a book that he liked and took the time to recommend it, pointing out a few things specifically that he thought I’d … Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo and my burfday!

Most of you in the writing world have heard of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. For those of you who haven’t, it’s a month long stab at writing a novel, or at least 50,000 words of it. NaNoWriMo started … Continue reading →

Robot solicitation calls

So anyone who’s been around me and the wife when we talk about solicitation calls will know I like to mess with the callers. While I won’t go in to all the ideas that we shouldn’t be getting any of … Continue reading →

Thirteen Days To Midnight by Patrick Carman

I haven’t done a book review in a while so I thought I’d talk about my latest read. I gave it three stars in Goodreads, but would probably have given it 3.5. So I’ll confess to never having heard of … Continue reading →