Category Archives: supergeekery
Insanity from Above, Filth from Below: A Freaked-Out Report on the San Diego Comic Con 2008
Last summer, when I attended the San Diego Comic Con, I was struck by its blankness– there was literally nothing that required photography and nothing, after the cease of the spectacle, that was worth remembering. My sum total of purchases … Continue reading
WINTER TOUR 08: MACWORLD AND BEYOND
There was no way in Hell that I was paying $25 to go to MacWorld, but elly had a Solution. She scummed a badge off someone not in need & thus, for an hour, my name was Nicole. Not counting … Continue reading
Wrasslin' with Cerebus: More Dave Sim
I consider Cerebus to be the single most illustratively innovative comic in the history of the form. If there is/was another series as consistently successful at expressing ideas with such elegance, I should very much love to know its name. … Continue reading
Ellison Lost
(UPDATE 9/7/07: Honest to god I have a life. The latest.) The Harlan Ellison -vs- Fantagraphics Lawsuit has been resolved through mediation and the details of said resolution have at last been posted. I’ve commented on this lawsuit before. (And … Continue reading
Alan Moore's The Killing Joke
Dirk Deppey has been linking, and probably causing, a mini-debate amongst female fans of comics regarding Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke. This centers, as with every other discussion of The Killing Joke, on the victimization of Barbara Gordon/Batgirl by The … Continue reading
Trimalchio's Banquet
I was there, I saw it happen. Given free entrance to the affair & invited to the Best Parties, one can find himself staring out the window of a Suite at Caesar’s Palace at 12am Friday (with only the loveliest … Continue reading
In which technology changes… nothing
As I’ve mentioned, most of my books are bought in a haphazard fashion, generally at the Hollywood & Western Out of the Closet. The most fascinating thus far has been Timothy Crouse’s The Boys on the Bus. Published in ’73, … Continue reading
REVIEW: Black Diamond Detective Agency
In a previous sycophantic post, I mentioned that I think Eddie Campbell is the single smartest person, both as an artist and a writer, to have ever worked in comics. Bacchus (under its 200 different titles of publication) was possibly … Continue reading
Terry meets Julie
Having been an Internet user for years and years and years, I’ve racked up a fair number of web results. Many of them embarrassing. Some are from the days before there was a web, let alone search engines. Had I … Continue reading