if you can schedule my write-up on the Helfer/Baker SHADOW book for sometime after April 1, i'd very much appreciate it since i have a bunch of work deadlines this month… also, two other questions:

totally great write-up, and i especially appreciate your highlighting one of my favorite aspects of the series - Sakai's masterful handling of telling complete, self-contained stories while also allowing for recurring characters and consequences which inform other stories in the overall saga.

so i want to ask you about this CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE book - the internet tells me that MF'n WILD DOG is a featured player in this book and i am a huge, no hold's barred WD fan from waaaay back in the day. how big a Wild Dog fan am i? well, let me tell you this - i bought every issue of Action Comics Weekly…

well, Beta Ray Bill and FROG THOR - i love BRB but, c'mon, Thor-as-a-frog is just so bloody brilliant.

i stumbled upon the Michael Jai White movie BLOOD AND BONE over Christmas when visiting my family back in Wisconsin - my folks don't have cable or any streaming services but a bunch of expanded digital channels that show goofball reruns and B-movies day and night.

bring in Shang-Chi as MASTER OF KUNG-FU and you've got a bomb-ass killer idea.

yeah, the stereotypes stuff is also an issue with introducing kids or even adults to lots of earlier classics in the field, ranging from TinTin to Dick Tracy and The Spirit. (and was really brought home for me when i recently checked out a huge DVD collection of Loony Tunes from the library - wow, was insensitive…

the time spent with Orc Dave and Braga and little hints about orc society were some of my favorite parts of that series as it went on.

BONE, STRAY BULLETS, anything by Chris Ware or Alan Moore back then, with his America's Best Comics line, Scott McCloud's UNDERSTANDING COMICS - there was plenty of good stuff in the 90s and while a lot of it wasn't being put out by the Big Two, there were occasionally Marvel and DC books that were rewarding. YOUNG…

the baby-killer single volume?! where the hell did you find a copy of that? i thought they've been sold out for years, unless you were able to pay the $200+ i've been seeing it listed for in various places…

Discworld and Christopher Moore are a great combo - I'm re-reading GOING POSTAL right now and, as i typically do, wondering why i don't spend more time reading and re-reading everything Terry Pratchett ever wrote.

is that the old SLASH MARAUD from the late 80s or a reboot? if it's the old one, you might be interested in Peter Milligan's SKREEMER from a few years later, which i thought was a really bleak, chilling play on some of the same issues "dying society" ideas SLASH MARAUD plays with. there's a cliffhanger in one of the…

I. AM. A. STABBING. ROBOT! (BIP) I. AM. A. STABBING. ROBOT! (BEEP) I. AM. A…

yeah, i always thought Season 4 needed to have Xander join the military (which is the third big post-high school option for most of America besides Going To College and Getting A Job) and, cause of his left-over Halloween solider experiences, excel to the point where he gets assigned to The Initiative for some reason.…

i was always hoping they'd do an episode that used the hacker shortcut for the case of the week and then spent the rest of the hour showing how Brian was using odd minutes of down-time to improve the lives of people he was randomly bumping into, sort of how he spent a couple hours at the horse races to give each of…

i prefer using shallots since my wife hates onions but likes the onion/garlic blend of shallots after i introduced them to her. left to my own devices, i would chop up a quarter red onion and a clove of garlic per avocado but i've found that mixing shallots AND garlic gets kinda overpowering unless i'm making enough…

a guy i knew when studying historic preservation swore by his recipe for guacamole: one roma tomato, one shallot, half a lime and seven shakes of soy sauce for every avocado you use. do NOT mash the avocado, just finely dice everything and mix in a bowl, then MAYBE add black pepper if you want. (the one time he…

sounds like something i'll be trying next time i pick up fresh veggies… here's a dumb question: to roast the kohlrabi, would you dice or slice? and, roughly, how thickly sliced or what size chunks? when i bake potatoes i like to slice them roughly 1/16th inch or so for white/yellow potatoes on up to about an 1/8th for…

also, i'm not calling you dirty or lazy or anything but i found washing stuff as you go cuts down on kitchen mess by a HUGE amount, especially if you're hosting for several people.

i don't like kohlrabi, since the only way i've ever had it was raw, which is how my parents love it.