My favorites... Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples "When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan, Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find…
January 2, 2017: Best Comic Book Reads of 2016 – Series and Graphic Novels!
A mix of 2016 and prior releases, here are my favorite comic book reads of this past year in no particular order... MY FAVORITE GRAPHIC NOVELS OF 2016... Replica (vol. 1) written by Paul Jenkins, art by Andy Clarke - Aftershock Comics Meet Trevor Churchill, an Earth-born peacekeeping agent on the intergalactic hub known as The Transfer.…
August 13, 2015: Recommended Reads! And Dark Matter screenshots!
After last year's impressive reading tally, I set the bar a lot lower this year but, even so, it looked like I was going to come up short of the 100 book mark. Over this past month, however, I've done some major catching up. Here are a few of the titles I enjoyed... Half A…
October 2, 2013: The Top 10 Titles of DC’s Supervillains Month!
In case you missed it, September was Supervillains Month, four glorious weeks in which DC celebrated 52 of its most colorful baddies by giving each their own one-shot. Following the events of Trinity War that saw Earth's greatest heroes defeated at the hands of Earth-3's nefarious Crime Syndicate, massive jailbreaks and irresistible opportunity resulted in…
July 4, 2011: Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire
It’s been years since Earth was struck by a mysterious plague. Called The Affliction, it killed billions and gave rise to strange genetic mutations – the birth of countless human-animal hybrids. Innocents, they are born into a hostile world where they are targeted by suspicious and fearful survivors. Gus is one such off-spring, a naïve…
June 29, 2011: Dinner and drinks with Hawkman! Episode 10 on track! Bento Breakfast! And a Sweet Tooth reminder!
Hey, look who it is! It's Michael Shanks (Stargate's Dr. Daniel Jackson, Smallville's Hawkman) who's in town shooting Saving Hope with Erica Durance (Smallville's Lois Lane). Michael texted me last week to let me know he'd be in Toronto and that I should set aside a night for catching up. He suggested drinks, I countered…
May 27, 2011: Getting the Book of the Month Club back on track! More Dark Matter Designs! Mailbag!
Given my increasingly busy schedule, I've been finding it very difficult to set aside any time for reading. As a result, I've shifted focus from novels to trade paperbacks which I find equally accomplished, just as enjoyable, yet also offer the added bonus of shorter narratives that don't require a lengthy commitment. And this got…
May 7, 2011: Thank you for taking me to geek festival!
We were pulling out of the parking lot, headed for home, when Akemi sunnily intoned: "Thank you for taking me to geek festival!". I explained that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it wasn't a geek festival per se. It was the Toronto Comic Arts Festival which, over the course of May 7th and 8th,…