GEEKING OUT: Mark Millar’s “Kick-Ass”

Okay, so speaking of trade paperbacks that are coming out…  If you went to some place that happens to sell comic books today, you probably saw the hardcover for Mark Millar’s much-ballyhooed Kick-Ass prominently displayed on the shelves.  The book, which in full disclosure I have never read a single frame of, has become something [...]

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GEEKING OUT: Garth Ennis’ “Crossed”

Garth Ennis has made an entire career out of pushing the envelope when it comes to his story-choices.  Hell, Preacher alone was both awesome and risque enough all in itself to list Ennis as an all time great comic writer. Ennis own twisted and particularly take on the zombie-genre, Crossed, has been around for a [...]

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Eggers Hits the Newsstands

Step right up Dave Eggers!  You’re next in the line of people attempting to revitalize the newspaper industry!  Okay, so maybe the line isn’t quite that long, and Eggers ambitions may not be quite that grandiose, but in a perfect world, revitalizing the industry may just be what he ends up helping to do.  As [...]

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GEEKING OUT: Ed Brubaker’s “The Marvels Project”

The question: Is there any better writer in the comic universe than Ed Brubaker right now?  The answer: No.  I’ve made no qualms about the fact that HItV has been something of an Brubaker unabashed cheerleader in 2009.  But in all fairness, it has been completely observed.  The latest source of my adulation?  His flagship [...]

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Politics and Fiction: A Match Made In Heaven

Over at New York Magazine, they have unveiled a feature that I have to say is just incredibly cool.  The piece is their Political Fictions Project where they invited seven different writers to pen short stories based on seven prominent political figures.  From President Obama to Mitt Romney, nobody is safe from the imaginations of [...]

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It’s Your Chance To Be Sarah Palin!

Ok, so not really.  But still, this is pretty cool, or at least novel.  As a warning before I get to the point of this post, if you are here because you thought that I was being sincere in my title, I can confidently assure you that this blog is not the kind of place [...]

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Matt Drudge, You’re the Worst…

The image above comes from the front page of Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report this morning.  You may wonder, why do I choose to put this up instead of just discussing Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” directly?  Because it perfectly illustrates the two things that most infuriate me most about this latest turn in the wild ride [...]

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Maurice Sendak Doesn’t Need Your Stinking Kids!

So, Maurice Sendak is the man.  I mean, sure, he wrote a children’s book that has made him millions and millions of dollars.  Yes, he had the foresight to give his blessing to one of the most creative and talented directors in Hollywood to adapt the book into a film (which has thus far been [...]

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Pretty Soon We’ll Just Be Giving Books Away

Just in time for the holidays, it seems that local booksellers and publisher all over are going to be gut shot yet again by the big online bookstores.  The New York Times is reporting that Target is jumping onboard with perennial online titans like Amazon and Wal-Mart and is slashing their prices on many of [...]

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GEEKING OUT: Ed Brubaker’s “Criminal: The Sinners”

Typically I try to post about the same topic twice in a row, but this time I couldn’t really help myself.  So it’s twice the geek for half the price today, kids!  I just tore through the first issue of Void favorite Ed Brubaker’s latest entry into his Criminal series entitled The Sinners, and let [...]

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