Michael - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I write about comics a lot. I'm the Editor in Chief at Comic World News , but I also blog about comics with a bunch of other folks at The Great Curve . I've got a groovy little column about Conan at Pop Thought and I've got my own blog about horror, fantasy, and sci-fi in all mediums. And, oh yeah, I've got a LiveJournal (but that's full of nonsense). I don't need another blog. Honestly. Steve Niles made me come here.

No, actually, it was Josh Fialkov who made me come here. I drop names. Sorry.

I also write some of my own comics and stories. I've had several short comics stories published in TALES FROM THE INNER SANCTUM and a short prose story called "Completely Cold" published in the back of all the September 2005 comics from IDW.

I'm working on a novel. I've recently been informed that it's a "Contemporary Fantasy" novel. That's good to know.

My Interests

I love horror. Mainly the suspenseful kind and the cheesy kind. I can take or leave the gory kind depending on whether or not there's a story to go along with it.

I like fantasy too. I can take or leave the elves and whatnot, but I really like a well-told contemporary or historical fantasy.

I love comics. Any kind. It's the medium itself that gets me.

Actually, I just like good stories of any kind. Any genre; any medium. From Homer to Stephen King; in books, comics, movies, TV, or theater. Doesn't matter.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interested in horror, fantasy, science fiction, or comics.

Actually, you know who'd I'd really like to meet? People interested in writing about comics. I could use the help at Comic World News. Seriously.

Music:

U2, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Billy Idol, The Pet Shop Boys, Dead or Alive, Duran Duran, Adam Ant, Dean Martin, Death Cab for Cutie

Movies:

Casablanca, Star Wars, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Curse/Night of the Demon, Frankenstein, anything with Kenneth Branagh, Sandra Bullock, Harrison Ford, Keira Knightley, Johnny Depp, Julianne Moore, Scott Foley, or Kate Beckinsale

Television:

Currently: Grey's Anatomy, Surface, Gilmore Girls, Lost, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica

Current shows that I'm catching up on via DVD: Arrested Development, House, Stargate SG-1

Other DVD shows that I go back and watch: Felicity, Friends, Alias, The X-Files, Scooby Doo, Magnum p.i., The Andy Griffith Show, The Dukes of Hazzard, Firefly, Star Trek, Xena, Wonder Woman, Batman: The Animated Series,

Books:

Too many to list. I just love the things.

Heroes:

Charles Dickens, Stephen King