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Birthday Wish

If I had one birthday wish this year it would be that all the children to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. If I had two wishes this birthday […]

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Comic Book Guy

“This will not do!” It always amazes me peoples’ varied perceptions of our cumulative geekiness as comic and SF fans.  And were you in my position you, too, would struggle with the connotations people in […]

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Call Me Stupid

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s a really stupid thing to want to do.” -Elvis Costello An anonymous email received in response to last week’s column- wherein I recalled the laughable […]

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Quality Control

Wisegeek.com describes quality control as: …a process employed to ensure a certain level of quality in a product or service. It may include whatever actions a business deems necessary to provide for the control and […]

Comics and Graphic Novels

Back to School

by Jeff Ayers “Bring us a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until somebody passes out.  And then bring one every ten minutes.” This past Saturday I was struck by a sudden, sharp, and sobering […]

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Attack of the Best-Selling Novelists!

Further proving this writer’s hypothesis that damn near everyone involved in the pop arts these days wants to be associated with comics and geek culture, an onslaught of prose novelists are releasing comics in the […]