Oddest blog confession that I never expected to make: This new series of posts was directly inspired by seeing Julie & Julia last night with my girlfriend. Looking at the scope of what the film’s title blogger achieved for herself through a year of foodie blogging, I got to thinking about what subject matter I’m … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #1: ‘Daredevil’ #500
I rolled in late from the Finger Lakes Wine Festival Sunday (20+ travel hours on the road) and got back to business bright and early this morning. Here’s what’s been on my mind and monitor: • How many Kindle users out there are comics readers? Archaia announced that they’ll be putting out a new Josh … Read moreQuestions for the Week: July 20, 2009
It’s my fondest hope that one day some kid writing a book report on the Harry Potter series will use these like Cliff’s Notes. Ramping up for the release of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” this week, I did a five-part retrospective on five the main cast members and their characters for MTV News. … Read moreHarry Potter series for MTV News
“No. Not unless they’re librarians with machine guns. These men have seen combat… They’ll do.” –Professor Bruttenholm, B.P.R.D.: 1947 #1 My local shop was fresh out of DC’s new Wednesday Comics #1 this week, which I was quite looking forward to. I did grab five other books off the rack, however. For the record, I’m … Read moreWednesday Reactions: July 10, 2009
“Rand, the inventor of the philosophical system called Objectivism, never missed an episode of Charlie’s Angels. She was such a Fawcett fan, in fact, that she sought to cast the actress as the lead in a planned TV miniseries version of her best-known work, the gargantuan novel Atlas Shrugged.” Amy Wallace
Please excuse the cluttered website at the moment. I’m moving things around, but the goal right now is to tweak a theme into something I can harness multiple feeds with and streamline into one slick blog — thus the multiple-format posting today. We’re getting there.
Jeff Goldblum accepts his rumored death on The Colbert Report.
“Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every savage can dance. Why, I imagine even zombies could do it with some degree of success.” Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
• Can Longbox really stimulate the secondary market for comics? Rich Johnston’s Twinterview with Longbox founder Rantz Hoseley was one of the more interesting industry-related reads I had last week. Everyone in pamphlet comics has obviously been twitching for a smooth, accessibly platform to sell their content on and magically keep revenue up while losing … Read more2 questions to kick off the week: June 29, 2009
Good news from MTV-land this week. Over at MoviesBlog.MTV.com where you’ve been seeing me post about movies on a near daily basis this year, I’ll know be helming a new daily feature that kicked off today. It’s called “Twitter-Wood,” and I’ll be giving a quick look each day at a few movie-related tweets. Check out … Read moreRecent MTV Posts