Apr 14
Jason Martin told me about a type of comic jam I’d never heard of called ‘Double Blind’. You find a comic strip and one person writes new words to go with the original pictures and the other person draws new pictures to go with the original words. Neither person sees what the other is doing …
Apr 13
My friend Jason Martin visited this weekend and shared a table with me at the small press comics show Extra Space in Columbus (it went well, thanks for asking)! We had a great time nerding out over comics, music, food and comics. Also comics came up quite a bit. After the show Jason and I …
Apr 05
Masters of the Universe was one of my favorite toy lines when I was a kid. And why not? They were all insanely muscular. Some smelled like hippies and some felt like Astro Turf. Some squirted water and some folded up to look like boulders. Some had cap gun style rounds in their backs that …
Mar 25
Last year I lost a good friend. We were roommates for the better part of the last decade and I’ve never felt more at ease around another human being than when I was with him. And not in a romantic way… it’s hard to explain. There was just never any pretenses. No bullshit. It was …
Mar 23
Just finished reading “Payback: The Tale of Dengar” written by Dave Wolverton from the Tales of the Bounty Hunters anthology. When I was a kid Dengar was one of my favorite Star Wars toys. He looked like a mental patient with his bandaged head and what appeared to be an air conditioner strapped to his …