The Company He Keeps
Looking down the length of the barricades in the culture war on which I stand, I see nothing by faces I’m proud to fight alongside: Makes me feel like one of the Gondorian knights standing behind Aragorn and Gimli and Théoden King at the Black Gates. How the heck did I...
A Meme For All of Us
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Adventure Constant: Exuberant Adventure
Somebody gets it: The explanation of the title of this exuberant adventure comes about three-fourths of the way into the book, and is so original and droll—well, and so outlandish—that when I came to it I laughed out loud. By that point, our hero, Jack Dashing, has been in,...
Welcome to the New Digs
Seagull Rising had a good run, but it’s also high time for a little more focused branding on the blog. The regular posts will continue, the PulpRev conversation goes on, and odd occasional commentary on the zeitgeist (like this post) will appear, but with a custom URL and a better...
Learning From Everything
By now you’ve all heard about Diversity and Comics. He watches the train wrecks so you don’t have to, but he does it in a way that really helps readers understand WHY current Marvel sucks worse than [insert Razoerfist analogy here]. Now, the man talks about individual comics for...
Not Sure How The Military Guys Do It
Today I took down the Christmas shower curtain and replaced it with the off-season shower curtain. Dad being gone for seven months will do that to a household. No matter how much the little woman steps up her game, there will always be a long list of things around...
Dragon Awards – The Allied Vote
It’s award time for fans of fantasy and science fiction, and that can mean only one thing – DragonCon ballots are up and ready for completion. The red fiery trophy is the new hotness that all the cool kids want to win, and my on-line social circle has a heavy...
One Down
How do people ever have time to feel poignant? My oldest ventures out tomorrow into the cold, harsh, and uncaring world of higher education, and the non-stop barrage of things that Must Be Done before he flies from the nest has left me no time to pause and ponder...
Backing A Book You Can’t Read
My cover artist, Rapha Pinheiro, launched his crowd funding project for his next comicbook: Salto is a Fantasy Steampunk, written and drawn in France when I was living in Angoulême to study comics. The book tells the story of Nu, an inhabitant of an underground city where everyone is made...
On Romance
“Wait. So you like romance, Dad?” My teen daughter asked this perfectly legitimate question in the middle of house cleaning, interrupting one of my typical soliloquies on the problems of modern storytelling. (If you think the PulpRev-o-Sphere is bad, trying living with one of us. This isn’t an act,...