It’s not the Emerald City Comic Con, also taking place this weekend in Seattle, but the NorthEast Comic-Con is a fun medium sized show and a good place to find some deals and get some decent comics. I’ve been several times over the last few years both when it was in Hanover and the last... Continue Reading →
Every day we are asked to pick a side, Liberal or Conservative, Instagram or Twitter, Coke or Pepsi. You get the idea. Back in the mid-eighties, we had to pick our favorite transforming robots, Transformers or Go-Bots. Transformers were big, flashy, and had lots of moving parts. Gobots, on the other hand, were smaller, less... Continue Reading →
This piece is inspired by Professor Alan from the Relatively Geeky Podcasting network and his show the Quarter Bin Podcast. I am a big fan of mining the cheapo bins for treasure, but most of the searching I do is in dollar bins. A couple of weeks ago I was visiting family in Burlington Vermont... Continue Reading →
I am flattered the have been invited to participate in the mighty Super-Blog Team-Up Redemption Event. Chris Sheehan of Chris is on Infinite Earths and Cosmic Treadmill fame suggested me as one of the new blogs this year and I am very grateful that he thought this blog was worthy of entry into the SBTU.... Continue Reading →
I read a lot of comics this year, listened to a lot of awesome comics related podcasts, and went to a bunch of great conventions and shows. There were certainly more high points than there were low points and I thought it might be fun to look back at them now. Highlights Black Hammer Some... Continue Reading →
The earliest Christmas comic I can recall reading was in the Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book comics. It was the Carl Barks story “Letter to Santa” featuring Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck. Over the years I’ve read plenty of good Christmas stories, the Bark’s classic “Christmas in Shacktown”, Denny O’Neil’s “Wanted: Santa Claus - Dead or... Continue Reading →
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