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What I bought – 10 November 2010

“Bonding is like the romance in an Arnold Schwarzeneggar movie.” If it happens along the way, fine.” But it ain’t the reason you go there.” (Bruce Feirstein, from Real Men Don’t Bond)

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A review a day: Neozoic

Oh, the high concept! Who doesn’t love high concepts?!?!?!?

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A review a day: Abyss

Bringin’ the funny today!

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A review a day: Box 13

A comic for your phone? Will the madness never end????

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Flippin’ through Previews – September 2010

If I were a flunkie at DC, I’d propose publishing FIFTY Bat-titles a month … and nothing else! Come on, DC – you can’t lose! In the meantime, we’ll have to peruse this month’s Previews for other, non-Batman-and-thus-far-inferior titles!

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What I bought – 30 June 2010

The difference between men and sheep seems to be that men, unlike sheep, need not be led to the slaughter but are carried there on the wings of their own enthusiasm. (William Gerhardie, from God’s Fifth Column)

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What I bought – 16 June 2010

Let us not be deluded by forms of government. The word may be republic in France, constitutional monarchy in Prussia, absolute monarchy in Austria, but the thing is the same. Wherever there is a vast standing army, the government is the government of the sword. (Benjamin D’Israeli, 1852)

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What I bought – 19 May 2010

They hated Thomas for his courage, his brief moment as a bird. Everybody has dreams about flying. Thomas flew. One of his dreams came true for just a second, just enough to make it real. (Sherman Alexie, from “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”)

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What I bought – 28 April 2010

“It took me some time to figure out that love is in the details. It’s in the books and records and the stereo and the convertible. Love is always in the details. And that’s where the pain is too.” (John Crowley, from Aegypt)

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What I bought – 14 April 2010

You stay in prison, what your time calls duty, honor, self-respect, and you are comfortably safe. Or you are free and crucified. Your only companions the stones, the thorns, the turning backs; the silence of cities, and their hate. (John Fowles, from The French Lieutenant’s Woman)

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What I bought – 17 February 2010

“Beware of faking: people will believe you. People believe those who sell lotions that make lost hair grow back. They sense instinctively that the salesman is putting together truths that don’t go together, that he’s not being logical, that he’s not speaking in good faith. But they’ve been told that God is mysterious, unfathomable, so [...]

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Flippin’ through Previews – December 2009

Raise your hand if you love Previews #255! Yee-ha!!!!

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Flippin’ through Previews – October 2009

Ah, the anticipation of new comics is often sweeter than the reality of new comics, ain’t it? With that in mind, it’s time to check out Previews #253, which asks us to believe that we need a second JSA book!

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What I bought – 16 September 2009

“Stop hitting people with your Rex Harrison hat!”

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What I bought – 19 August 2009

“There’s a thousand dollars in there … or maybe there isn’t. Know what I mean?”

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