I was watching It Might Get Loud on the weekend: a documentary type film about technique and influence from The Edge, Jack White and Jimmy Page. While chatting Jimmy Page mentions he was a studio musician when Shirley Bassey recorded…
Over the holidays I had a chance to roast a turkey and make gravy. It was a twenty pound bird and I somehow ended up with just under a cup of fat in the roasting pan. The fat was fairly…
Blast from the past: originally published October 6th 2000. It’s a sad time when I can’t get in any game playing, but that’s what happened this week. I’ve beaten most of my games in single player mode and look for…
Originally published at Comic Book Daily under my Bound Together column. During the 1990s The Tick from Ben Edlund and New England Comics was the hottest comic property going. The black and white comics were a smash success that led…
Originally published at Comic Book Daily under my Jiminy Christmas! column. Why are publishers still producing dust jackets? The technology has been around for a good century or so to print whatever you want right on the book cover. In…
I’m a big Mike Mignola fan, admiring his work since Marvel Fanfare. The Amazing Screw-On Head was a one-shot comic published in 2002 but somehow I missed it so I was anxious to pick up The Amazing Screw-On Head and…
Dan Brereton has been pigeon-holed as an artist of horror and horror comics. Image has published Dan Brereton: The Goddess & The Monster, a hardcover artbook collecting various horror illustrations. Let the pigeon-holing continue. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: After more…
A few weeks ago a local grocery store had pork picnic shoulder for $0.77 per pound so I picked up eight: seven in the freezer and one for the barbeque. Nice fatty pork shoulder is perfect for low and slow…
I was a faithful fan of Dark Horse’s Conan relaunch with Cary Nord as artist but after he left I drifted away. Came across Conan: Cimmeria or Conan Volume 7, depending on how you interpret the spine and title page…