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About Me

.. a website for the well-rounded geek

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anybody into comics. You don't have to remember the halcyon days of superhero Slurpee cups, but it would be nice if you know who Captain Action was.Bonus for Ambush Bug.

My Blog

Getting Back On Track

Oh, I know I have papers to grade. I know it. But instead, with a day job not particularly showing me a lot of love right now, I use my spare time to review some comics, run some interviews, and try t...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 20:45:00 GMT

Sparks 1

The first official review of Sparks 1 has appeared. The book comes out in stores everywhere in June, but of course we sent a few preview copies out. As I'm the editor and Chief Zorlac of Catastrophic ...
Posted by on Mon, 05 May 2008 08:41:00 GMT

Next Generation

My daughter stayed home sick from church yesterday, and though that's usually Dad's time to goof off with technology, it turned out to be a great bonding afternoon. Mainly because she asked me how I g...
Posted by on Mon, 05 May 2008 08:23:00 GMT

Catastrophic Comics -- Sparks 1

I’ve been remiss. Months ago, I hinted and all but named a project I was working on, and though it got announced a couple of weeks ago, did I mention it here again? No. Lame, lame, lame. I&rsqu...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:07:00 GMT

Grandma

This is something I just wrote for Chris Garcia's magazine, The Drink Tank. But I felt I should post it here on New Year's Eve, as it's been running around my head for a while. Oh, and like my grandmo...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:03:00 GMT

28 Minutes Later

Today the madness of Christmas brought with it a literal splitting headache. So after enduring the 14-person, 3-hour present opening marathon as we satellited my wife's sister's family, it became clea...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:12:00 GMT

The Golden Compass

I'm trying to put together coherent thoughts for my review of The Golden Compass, which I saw Monday night. All week long I've been getting caught up in discussions (both in media and personal) of whe...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:37:00 GMT

I Hate People Magazine

For the 27th year in a row, they have failed to name me "Sexiest Man Alive."
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:34:00 GMT

The Doctor

The hell of moving into a faux administrative role at school is that I'm suddenly drawn back into work a week or two before everyone else. (Not that any "regular" teacher truly gets as much time off a...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:15:00 GMT

Mike Wieringo

Yes, I loved his work, which mixed the traditional superhero with just enough cartoony style to make you feel that this was the TV show you wished you could be watching. That goes double when he was d...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:27:00 GMT