thanks - i'm making a note to check those out!

cool - i just put Curse of Chalion on hold at the local library. thanks! i thought i'd heard of her vorkosigan works before, as stuff she'd originally written about star trek klingons but i must have had that confused with another series, since i didn't see any mention of that on the wiki page.

i've been reading about the release of the new 5th Edition Players Handbook for D&D - a friend picked up a copy at his local game store, but i'll be waiting until mine arrives from amazon. in the meantime, i've been reading online reviews* and came across mention of an Appendix E, which gives a list of inspirational…

ASS TO ASS

whoa - that is some seriously high praise. i mean that: Cowboy Wally Show is the best [i used to think kyle baker could do no wrong, although the Deadpool MAX miniseries kinda disabused me of that notion…]

i'm sure some people are going to dismiss this as a bunch of politically correct handwringing but the biggest objection i can think of to endlessly rebooting classic characters is that it's literally just one more white dude after another. i'm a white dude and i'm certainly not suggesting representations of white…

thanks to the new marvel reprintings, for the first time in 20 years, i re-read A Dream of Flying, volume 1 in the Miracleman collection. i don't remember ever having seen the 1950's-era mick anglo story that kicks off the book, although i do have [somewhere] the special from which "The Cleaners" was taken. the…

shit, man - i'm the same age as jason heller.

i love the amount of thought you've put into this.

my grandma used to talk about "the jew on the hill" - she'd get real defensive whenever we'd tell her she couldn't say shit like that, hurriedly pointing out that they were a nice jew, i never said different, stop being so sensitive.

robert plant isn't really interested in squeezing your lemons either.

i gotta disagree. the whole point about Blood Syndicate is that they weren't unrepentant - they had regrets, self-doubt, they felt conflicted about things. it's also worth noting they had a fairly stringent "code" about who they would be willing to attack - it isn't like they were running rampant. and another…

i think both icon and hardware from the milestone universe were routinely referred to as fairly rich black people - i mean, there were also much richer white people in the picture as well… of course, i'm not sure if either of those made the transition to the New 52 and it isn't like two examples [from the same small,…

Land of Rape and Honey probably had a more transformative effect on me than any other piece of music i've ever heard. seriously: thank you, mr jorgensen.

i shot a man in reno just to… shit, there was some reason. i forget.

well, as any listener of classic rock radio stations know, he is the Motor City Mad Man, after all.

i would have given it to you for Due South and the jeremy piven-version of Cupid.

i grew up in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and i still go out of my way to check ice cube machines and construction cranes for the logo - i don't think i saw any when i visited australia, but i've seen them in just about every state i've visitied.

i don't think Blood Syndicate has ever been collected and i don't think they did a complete job on Static but those were my favorite two of the bunch. i think Icon, Static and Wise Son were among the characters that got added to the DCU a couple years ago but i can't pretend to be an expert on that phase of things.

i thought the style of the time was tying an onion on your belt?! what the fuck…