In retrospect, it’s fitting that I sat down to read Ian McEwan’s first novel, The Cement Garden, right around the holidays. This slim book from 1978 is all about family, a disturbing account of four young siblings left in a house by themselves during one hot summer. It’s almost in poor taste to watch these children…

Okay, let’s talk Batman. It sort of sucks to be starting this column right at the tail end of Greg Capullo’s tenure as artist (he says he’ll be back, though). The guy has pretty much redefined the look of the character, while also taking a more classicist approach in things like “Zero Year,” and has done a lot in the…

At the height of my lit snobbery a few years back, I was obsessed with a blog called Shit My Cats Read, a site devoted to two cats who read and criticized contemporary fiction. The blog was really run by Scott Indrisek, owner of the cats, although the site guaranteed he was only the editorial assistant and Uni and…

Yikes! I told you that I’d fall off the blog wagon at some point, but I didn’t expect it to be so soon. It’s been 20-something days since the last time I posted, and I offer my sincerest apologies. I’ll blame day job for that. October and November have been very busy months.

I celebrated my girlfriend’s birthday this weekend with a lot of gin and plenty of food, and behold, it was very good. Somewhere in between all that, we watched two vampire movies for the first time: Matt Reeves’ Let Me In and Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark. This was unintended, but both of these movies are perfect for…

I spent a large part of Sunday roaming the halls of NYCC 2015 for the final time this year, just hungover enough to feel my inner Raoul Duke but sober enough to have chats with Babs Tarr in the morning and Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo in the afternoon. I met all three of these awesome Bat-creators at last year’s con,…

Eh, it’s not as bad as the title suggests. Handed it out a billion magazines yesterday morning to all the fans waiting in line to get into the show floor. Here’s a stack of the things:

NYCC week is here, which means a lot of work, but at least my day job is publishing its first print magazine for the event. Yay us! Besides that, lots of emailing, editing for future weeks, and planning personal stuff. Tomorrow is the EA Preview Event, where I’ll get to play the publisher’s upcoming line-up.

The only non-day job productive thing I really did this week was watch an old After Dark Horrorfest movie called Lake Mungo, a brilliant little mockumentary set in Australia, that not only emulates a documentary in every sense of the word, but also offers a fantastic sci-fi twist that pretty much holds the film…

Shitty weather and my back is killing from all the New York Comic Con prep. Don’t let anyone tell you sitting at a desk all day isn’t hard. I’m literally putting my back into it.

I’ve struggled for a long time to get this blog started, mostly due to time (of which I have almost none) and general terror that I have nothing to really say. But I’d like to do some personal writing that isn’t journalism, ramblings about nerdy stuff (you’ll still probably see a lot of that here), or fiction (which I…