I tend to enjoy novels that shine a spotlight on different cultures, whether it’s the Sengoku period of Japan or modern day Lebanon. Since I don’t travel, this is my way of vicariously experiencing other ways of life and seeing what other people have to go through in their daily struggles. Love as a [...]
A famous actor was dying once and all around his bed family and friends gathered to hear the great man’s final words. After a time of silence, he looked to them and said, "Dying is easy, comedy is hard!" After slogging through innumerable bad comedies in recent years, I am inclined to agree. Good adult [...]
Welcome to the special Thanksgiving edition of The Haul. I’d like to give thanks to the comics creators whose work I’ve reviewed here for making some damn fine comics to review. I’d also like to thank Scott Wherle for letting me post my reviews here. And without further ado, the Haul: Tales of the [...]
I didn’t feel up to writing a T&T last week because a member of my family died. It was one of those “suddenly and unexpected” things. She was fine on Friday morning, and died Monday morning. I loved her very much, and will miss her a lot. Because, unlike Hal Jordan, Phoenix, Green Arrow, Superman, [...]
Back-Story No, this isn’t the story of how I’m in constant pain with my bad back. But now that I’ve brought it up, I wonder how much sympathy I can garner from mentioning the stabbing pains that run up and (That’s enough, Ince. Get on with the column, you pathetic wimp – Ed.) Ahem. Back-story [...]
Twee. Either you love it, or there’s something wrong with you. Something which will no doubt result violence against my girly-pop listening ass, leaving me bloodied amidst a pile of broken The Field Mice vinyl and ripped cardigans. Anyway, I thought I’d devote this column to some of the bands and labels that are keeping [...]
Nirvana ushered in a whole new era of rock and roll with the opening riff of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” off the band’s 1991 breakthrough album Nevermind. Those three chords defined a generation and established Alternative music’s credibility (at least in the commercial sense). However, the burden of being earmarked as the most influential band [...]
Character Profiles Part of my current job involves creating the character profiles for my client’s project. Now, I can’t go into the specific details of what I’m doing (for obvious reasons), but I thought I would reflect on how important it is to do this work. Although I’ve already discussed characters, in an earlier column, [...]
Welcome to another edition of the Haul. I just realized that I only read one series regularly that’s past issue 20 (Queen & Country)… Hopefully some of these books that I review regularly will make that leap and that will no longer be the case. Anyway, here’s the Haul for this week: Walking Dead #13 [...]
Citizen Cope – Bullet And A Target Wendell Pai – Webmaster and Spiritual Guru of Randomville: Hmm…here’s that funk-reggae thing that never seems to go away. It ain’t bad; it ain’t good, I just don’t care. (2/5) Kristin Clark – Promotions: Wendell said it…it’s all been done before. (2/5) Christian Boyles – Writer: Remember Everlast? [...]