Flashback! To “Star Trek: Into Darkness…!”
I will finish this thing if it kills me. But, it isn’t really about Star Trek: Into Darkness. Because that movie’s just garbage, and you shouldn’t see it. Somewhere in a file on this very computer is a...
View ArticlePrincipia Comicbookia: APPENDIX I
Or: “Of Tricksters And Tuning-Forks” * Circumlocution, Bloggers! That’s how you talk yourself around and around things, and into them and out of them, and no one sees you come and no one sees you go…...
View Article“I Don’t Like To Lose”
In the dream, I find a way to move out of check…but then the board rotates, and I find that way is blocked. I think hard, and find another way, this one perfect. The other one was wrong, I see that...
View ArticleSurely You’re Joking, Mr. Elmslie: A Curious Conversation About Adventure...
Welcome, Bloggers! To the interview I’d planned to post way back in July 2011, with countryman and comics fan Matthew Elmslie, busy at work on his actual second superhero novel, called Ded & Sac....
View ArticleTempest In A Peepot
Okay, I don’t know why Noah Berlatzky hates hates HATES Maus so much — sometimes it seems like he hates it even more than anything by Alan Moore, or Jack Kirby! — but even for him this may be going a...
View ArticleNew Year’s Bray
Bom Dia, Bloggers! Did you have a nice holiday season? Myself, I was blessed with Many Books, among them Andrew Rilstone’s “Do Balrogs Have Wings?”, a lovely thing that could never (in the last fifty...
View ArticleMoore Interviews, Moore Problems
So I guess you’ve all seen this, right? I don’t know if I would comment on it right away, if I didn’t have something of a personal angle on it. But I do, so I probably should. That personal angle, by...
View ArticleAttention Must Be Paid To this Man
Happy Birthday, Tim! He’s done this before; right when I started blogging he went into this whole John Cusack thing about how he didn’t want to sell anything or buy anything or manage anything...
View ArticleSome Sherlock Holmes Remarks On “Elementary”
You can blame The Illogical One for it, Bloggers! For in the comments of his recent ad-hoc survey of American TV dramas, in response to someone who said they preferred Elementary to Sherlock, our own...
View ArticleBememe The Benign
I admit it, it’s all to give Andrew a diversion from his work… So a little while ago, the always-brilliant Jonathan Burns suggested to me that a person who would make a GREAT Doctor who wasn’t from...
View ArticlePursuant To Peter Dinklage
“Well, what makes you think I was playing a dwarf?” “You…uh…excuse me?” “What. Makes you. Think I. Was playing a dwarf in Game Of Thrones?” “You, uh…is this a trick question?” “Kind of, yes.” “But...
View ArticleBLOG TOUR MEME!
Tagged by Andrew, because whenever someone mentions my name I must appear…and he got it from Lawrence Burton, and to be honest I haven’t checked how deep the stack goes, but… * 1. What are you working...
View ArticleThat’ll Do, Pig
Huh. Doesn’t even work at all anymore. God, they have really made this impossible. So begins Hour Two of trying to post here, Bloggers, and as I’m sure you’ll see the effort was of debatable worth in...
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