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with Tongue

I’m kind of starting to enjoy these quick bits of furious webcam-ing.  This is really what I do on my ten minute break at work if I’m not hungry or aren’t reading anything.  I set up (harder than it looks as the video is so dark), record, check levels, edit as much as I can [...]

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Cracking the Internet in Half

Okay, so it’s one thing to overhype your stuff to the tried and true fans; by this point, we should expect every issue of every comic that rolls off the Marvel assembly lines to fundamentally change our lives and bring peace to the Middle East.  No, let’s not get into whether or not the issues [...]

And a Light Shone Down from the Heavens…

And God granted us Dan Slott.
The Baltimore Comic-Con revealed to us the way and the light by announcing DAN SLOTT was going to be taking over writing chores on the Mighty Avengers, the finest Avengers news I’ve heard in a great long while.  Let me explain:
Originally, Mighty Avengers was supposed to be the ‘real’ Avengers [...]

The Right Tool for the Right Failure

I didn’t always, but I really like the Authority.
I’m sure somewhere Warren Ellis has said it smarter or better or not even this at all (seriously, YOU try and predict that man!) but it’s kind of the logical extension of the Justice League.  If people as powerful as Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman just hung [...]

God Speed, Green Lantern

Last year, I was lucky enough to be on a movie set for a particular project I’ll eventually be free to speak about.  Let’s just put it this way;  I am legally obligated not to say a thing about what I did, who I saw and what I heard and if that doesn’t make you [...]

An Open Letter to Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente

Dear Sirs,
When you first took over writing chores on the Incredible Hercules, I was rather upset and might have said some rather harsh words regarding your ‘hijacking’ of one of my favorite titles.  I didn’t think it was fair the the title character of the book formerly known as Incredible Hulk got kicked off his [...]

Give Peace a Chance

So, as Secret Invasion rolls along, revealing that yes, some people are Skrulls, some people are not Skrulls and hey, they’re doing whole Invasion under a religeous fervor!  For their troubles, the Marvel heroes have banded together to face this army and rip their stinkin’ heads off.
Some might say there’s a lot of out-and-out killing [...]

When the Wrong Thing Can be Right – X-Factor #34

This last issue of X-Factor ends their Secret Invasion tie-in and their She-Hulk tie-in and, I’ll be honest here, I can’t say it really thrilled me as much as an X-Factor/She-Hulk tie-in should have.  To be fair, I’ll admit my share of fandignance here and say that my expectations were probably really high and what [...]

All You Need to Know: New Avengers #43

You might have noticed that there was no recap for this issue.  Despite returning to ‘present’ time, despite the good push this particular story had when we first saw Ka-Zar and Spidey hash things out in the Savage Land right around the first issue of Secret Invasion when all the Marvel heroes that arrived on [...]

Convention Zen

I sit in my car, the husband driving (sadly, he won’t let me call him Happy Hogan as he’s both chauffer and bpdyguard this trip), listening to Sirius channel 22 (1st Wave!) and anticipating the Big One.
And for once, I’m not talking about earthquakes.
The San Diego Comic Con is like nothing else on Earth and [...]