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June 16, 2013
Sacramental Horror
(Hey everyone, as you know, I’ll be attending the press junket for the movie, The Conjuring. We will be posting a lot of content about horror, faith, movies and books leading up to the event. It’s going to be fun and exciting all around. To start it all off, I’m reposting an article I published [...]
June 14, 2013
“Supes” and the beauty of spectacle
The years of 1977 and 1978 changed my life. The two greatest movies of my childhood came out; Star Wars and Superman. These spectacles made me want to tell stories for a living. There are more than enough Gen X’er nostalgic pieces about Star Wars. However, I’ve seen very few about Superman. While this meant [...]
June 7, 2013
“Every artist is a cannibal…”
….every poet is a thief…” I’m not sure if you’ve been following the Prodigal Sam controversy. Prodigal Sam is a campus minister down in South Carolina, and has over 100,000 followers on Twitter by posting some pretty hilarious Tweets. As it turns out, some of them are riffs on other comedians stuff. Was he stealing? Was [...]
June 4, 2013
Comic Book Day Tomorrow-Here is what we’re looking forward to….
Hey Everyone, Every Tuesday night, we’re gonna post comics we’re looking forward to reading tomorrow. So, let’s get cracking….. Green Lantern #21 In case you missed it, GL #20 is sold out. You can’t get it anywhere. My agent and friend tried to get it in Louisville this past weekend. It was an amazing [...]
June 3, 2013
We’re back, on a new channel and DC Comics goes to the dark side!
Hey Everyone, We’re back on Geek Goes Rogue and, we’re no longer on the Evangelical Channel here at Patheos. Instead, we’re on the Movie Channel and we think that’s a better fit. So, to give you a sense of our new direction, we’re going to keep our “editorials” on all things geek related. But, we’re [...]
May 30, 2013
Writing Updates (What I’m working on)
Hey Everyone, We took a bit of a break here at Geek Goes Rogue. Essentially, we’re trying to re-imagine the blog a bit. Next week will be the beginning of our (Semi) new direction. Now, many have been asking about my writing and all the different stuff I’m writing at this point. Here is the [...]
May 27, 2013
Scary Story Contest over on Facebook!
Hey Everyone, Starting on June 1st, I’m going to be running a “Tell Your Scary Story” contest over on my Facebook page. It’ll go right up to October 15, the day 3 Gates of the Dead will be released. So, what’s the contest? Simple. 1) Go over to my author Facebook Page 2) “Like it” [...]
May 22, 2013
Daredevil and Cancer
In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a huge Daredevil fan. The current run by Mark Waid is telling some of the best “Man Without Fear” stories we’ve seen in awhile. (Spoiler Alert) But, I want to focus just on one aspect of issue 26 and it doesn’t have to do with Daredevil. At least, not directly. [...]
May 21, 2013
Sorry, but the Jedis are wrong: a Reflection on Geoff John’s Green Lantern Run
Tommorow, May 22nd, is a historic and sad day in the comic world. With issue #20 of Green Lantern, Geoff Johns will end his legendary run as the chief writer in the Green Lantern Universe. Over at Comic Resources, they ran a great interview with Johns on why he decided to end his time on GL. [...]
Sorry, but Jedi’s are wrong: a Reflection on Geoff John’s Green Lantern Run
Tommorow, May 22nd, is a historic and sad day in the comic world. With issue #20 of Green Lantern, Geoff Johns will end his legendary run as the chief writer in the Green Lantern Universe. Over at Comic Resources, they ran a great interview with Johns on why he decided to end his time on GL. [...]
