So I have good news and bad news this week, which would you like first? The bad news! Okay, the bad news it is. Today’s column is going to be kind of short. Maybe that’s good news to you haters out there but the other three readers really like this column and it’s going to bum them out. The reason for the short column is I am traveling all week for various things for my day job and this means lots of dinners with clients and late nights and...

Superman is having a good year. Maybe the best year he has had in quite some time. Not only is there a new movie on the way but Scott Synder and Jim Lee are tackling a new Superman book in June and it’s actually Superman’s 75th anniversary, which is pretty impressive when you think about it. So yesterday DC released an article on their blog about Superman, which can be found here. The article (or more correctly list) contains the six must-read...

This weekend is Memorial Day weekend. It’s weird to think that a few years ago this weekend used to be the kickoff of the summer blockbuster movies but now they start in April basically. The times are a changing. Anyway, Memorial Day is set up to tribute the fallen solders of our armed forces but overtime has also become just a day to remember those we have lost in our life. So this weekend as you enjoy barbeques and time with family I hope you...

Today we are going to briefly discuss an enigma of comics. There are many weird traditions about comics but there is one that has always caught my eye. It’s the double initials of comic book characters. It seems so odd that so many characters have first and last names that start with the same letter. It’s something that’s always been perplexing to me so I did a little bit of digging to see if I could find out why. Now mind you the Internet is a...

There has been a lot of grumbling lately about Dan Slott’s run on Spider-Man. Unless you live in a cave without the Internet, you know that Slott had Doc Ock switch bodies with Peter making him effectively Spider-Man while Peter Parker died in the body of Doc Ock. It really ticked off fans. For me personally, I don’t care for the series. Now don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a cool idea but I just don’t care for Dan Slott’s run on Spider-Man. A...

So I want to share with you some of the fun of C2E2 but just like Life Magazine, I am going let my photos do the talking. Well photos but also with tiny captions. I mean come on. it’s not like a picture says a thousand words or...