Animated for the Web

The web seems to be downright lousy with “animated” versions of comics lately. Everything from the graphically excellent, voice talent minimalist Watchmen to the new Stephen King comic N. While I think the trend is interesting as a whole, I’d hate to see it displace traditional still comics. Part of me likes that there is [...]

Comic Book Sightseeing: House on The Rock

I’m going to assume that if you’re here you know Neil Gaiman’s work. That being said, I’m not going to assume that you have read American Gods, but I will assume that you’ve heard of it. One of the major concessions of the book is that in America we’ve managed to subvert the naturally powerful [...]

Cider!

So Lauren and I have been working on this for a while. I’ve been kind of documenting the process as we go along, but have put off blogging it for a while. Mostly because I’ve been busy, but largely because I’m kind of lazy, too. Anyhow, we started a hard cider a while ago. Maybe [...]

Superhero Theme Songs

Hypeful has a list of the Top 20 Superhero Theme Songs up right now. I don’t agree with all of them, but it’s interesting reading. I’d say the one glaring omission I see is The Ramones cover of Spider-Man. Anyone have any other songs that they feel have been slighted?

Harvey Dent Could Eat Peaches All Day Long

I really can’t get over how totally and unnecessarily awesome the new Batman movies are. Honestly, looking back I am still really okay with the first two “serious” Batman movies, but as a fan of the books, I was totally blown away by Batman Begins, and have been really looking forward to The Dark Knight [...]