Monthly Archives: August 2007

Empire City

On April 8, 2008, Frank Miller, Inc. filed to protect the trademark Empire City in relation to a “series of comic books, over sized comic books and graphic novels, coloring books, fiction and nonfiction magazines and books in the field of leisure and entertainment”.
Frank Miller is an American comic book writer and artist most known […]

What I’m Buying for the Week of 09-24-08

MARVEL
Captain America #42
Immortal Iron Fist Orson Randall and the Death Queen of California
Wolverine First Class #7

DC
ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER #10
AMBUSH BUG: YEAR NONE #3 (OF 6)
BLUE BEETLE #31
DC UNIVERSE: DECISIONS #2 (OF 4)
GREEN LANTERN #35
REIGN IN HELL #3
SUPERMAN #680
SUPERMAN/BATMAN #52
TRINITY #17

This is a slow week. Therefore I have […]

Curvaceous good luck

While at the HQ last month I picked up another (likely) drawer queen which I lusted after during initial release, the Schempp Kris. I love the hybridization risks that Spyderco is willing to take on product (the dyad, kiwi, volpe, all come to mind) and the Kris is a cool compromise between Spyderco functionality and […]

Time Capsule

I’m sure most of us have done this as a kid, or recently if you are a kid. Buried something so you could dig it up later, like a special treasure. Unless you forgot about it, it usually would not be long until you dug it up to rediscover things from your… “past”. As an […]

Understanding Comics Chrome

The launch of Google’s new browser, “Chrome” has a lot of people talking. Rather than bog us down with boring technical details, Google have hired acclaimed comic book artist and author of “Understanding Comics”, Scott McCloud to explain the new features and how they were conceived. It makes for some interesting and very digestible reading.
Understanding […]

A Phenomenon Known As “J.J. Vu”

Even though I’ve never seen A.L.I.A.S., Josh tells me it had the same undertones. Maybe Felicity did too. It was, after all, about time travel. Maybe J.J. Abrams only has the one idea. Regardless I am going to stick around for Fringe and see where it goes. The pilot got me interested and the follow […]

All We Wanna Do Is Eat Your Brains

I hope Eli washed that bowl beforehand.
Heroes season 3 premiered this week. I don’t even know where to begin. Season 1 showed so much promise. Season 2 swerved directly into oncoming traffic, collided with a bus full of legless orphaned nuns, each holding a kitten and exploded into a fireball of fail that could be […]

Cop e-writes in fringe mint; 545 people

The first part of the blog title is an example of Anguish Languish. That’s the process of writing a word, phrase or even an entire Fairy Tale using completely different real words that phonetically sound like the original word. For example, “English Language” becomes “Anguish Languish”. “Little Red Riding Hood” becomes “Ladle […]