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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“The A-Team” Trailer

So I’m probably the very last person in the world to put this trailer up (it dropped last week, and was kind of a big deal), but I’m going to post the new trailer for the upcoming “A-Team” movie anyway.  Now, I never watched the show, and don’t really have even the slightest of nostalgic [...]

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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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America’s Still Not Over the Whole JFK Assassination Mystery

I’ll be the first to admit it, I was not-so-secretly laughing at Muammar Gaddafi when he demanded to be told who was truly behind the JFK assassination in front of the United Nations a couple of weeks back.  While I’m still laughing at him, all of a sudden I’m not laughing quite as hard.  According [...]

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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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GEEKING OUT: Christos Gage’s “Absolution”

I was fortunate enough to pick up the third issue of Christos Gage’s new series Absolution today and allow me to say “wow.”   Now there’s a book that’s just starting to hit its stride.  Gage’s series takes a few pulpy cop cliches and injects new life into them with sharp writing and great art [...]

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The World Is Not Ending. Probably.

Oh, I love a good apocalypse story.  If you’re an uncontrollable, narcissistic, stress-whore with unlimited access to the internet (like me!) than you likely heard about a potential 2036 doomsday by way of an asteroid smashing into Earth.  If you somehow didn’t hear about it, here are the cliff notes; scientists who watch the sky [...]

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Will eBooks Be the Death of Literature?

If you’re the kind of person who is reading this blog, or really the type of person who reads blogs at all, you’re probably not adverse to the idea of reading an e-book.  However, this article from the New York Times suggests that might not necessarily be a good thing for the future of publishers. [...]

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Neil Patrick Harris Is the King of the World

Wow.  That’s just about the only word that I can use to describe New York Magazine‘s feature on actor Neil Patrick Harris. The article is a crazy, Dadaist, whirlwind of a read that focuses on Harris’ unique success as an openly gay male actor in Hollywood. Interestingly, the expansive nature of the article really mirror’s [...]

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