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Recent Work: ‘Watchmen’ Ending Debate, Spider Jerusalem’s Endorsement and ‘Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe’

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

So, yeah… this is where I normally write about how busy I’ve been since the last few updates. How about we just pretend like I’ve done all that and made all sorts of excuses for not updating the site, and get right back to normal, eh?
Here’s a quick roundup of some of the pieces I’ve [...]

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Tags: comics · film · gaming · print comics · splash page

never met an obscure costume i didn’t like

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

The always entertaining wordsmith Kiel Phegley recently posted a retrospective look at his Halloween costumes through the years, and it made me wish I had photos on hand of some of my own. I still consider the massive cardboard Pac-Man costume my mother made for me back in Elementary School to be the greatest costume [...]

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recent published work: gears of war film update, halloween previews, etc.

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

I ended up biting off a big chunk of writing assignments over the last week or so, mainly due to my stubborn resistance to thinking, “You know what? I probably have enough on my plate right now. Someone else can handle that.” Some of the work was big news, some of it was Halloween-themed, and [...]

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Tags: comics · film · gaming · interviews · print comics · splash page · television

updatery: so how’s the mtv gig going?

September 23rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Well, I’m three weeks into my new gig as Co-Editor of MTV’s Splash Page, so it’s well past time for a post about how things are going. The need for such a post has become overwhelmingly apparent due to the number of messages I’m receiving each day asking how things are going — which is [...]

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thoughts on publishers and conventions

August 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Earlier this week, Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter spoke with Ted Adams, president of IDW Publishing, about his recent announcement that this year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego might be his company’s last. The interview created a lot of chatter around the comics industry, reigniting the whole “has Comic-Con forgotten about comics” debate, as [...]

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