Comic Review: Drifter (Issue #1) by Ivan Brandon and Nic Klein

As I’ve read more and more comics, I’ve come to the realization that one of the things I am sorely missing is a good sense of the non-Marvel/non-DC comics worldview.  Thus, I have turned to Image Comics to find those gems that I would otherwise miss.  This is, of course, hardly a challenge for me, […]

Merry Holiday Things

Merry Christmas, everyone, from my weird family to yours. And may your new year be filled with mostly positive things and lots if pie.

On The Interview, Terrorism, and the Artistic Expression

By now, you’ll have heard that Sony had opted to cancel the release of Seth Rogen and Ethan Goldberg’s The Interview (2014)(starring Rogen and James Franco) in response to threats against their employees and movie theaters (many of which have refused to show the film).  They have since announced that the film will play in […]

On the World Fantasy Award and H.P. Lovecraft

(Correction:  a previous version of this post attributed the Guardian article to Damien G. Walter rather than Daniel José Older.  That has been corrected below.  My apologies for the mix-up.) We’re still talking about the World Fantasy Award and H.P. Lovecraft’s bizarrely shaped award-specific head.  Daniel José Older, who created the original petition to replace Lovecraft’s […]

Cancer Free Since ’03

For those that don’t follow me on Twitter, you’ll have missed the whole “Shaun had a cancer appointment today” stuff.  As it turns out, I remain cancer free, and have done so since the conclusion of chemo in 2003. And that’s good news indeed. So hurray to me. Good news for the holidays and all […]

6 Thoughts on 1.5 Seasons of CW’s Arrow — @cw_arrow

I’ve recently become a fan of CW’s Arrow.  If you haven’t seen the show, it’s easily one of the best superhero TV shows on air at the moment.  Don’t let the CW label fool you.  Arrow is good stuff.  It’s one part action thriller and one part superhero camp, all mixed together in a magic […]