I just wrote three draining reported pieces in 30 hours plus all this other blogging and freelance writing and band practicing and strategizing and general-purpose living sprinkled in. I’m exhausted and I want to talk about comic books. No problem, I figure: everyone’s busy with FinReg. It’s whatever. After the jump, a spoiler-filled discussion of [...]

Thanks to everyone who came to Laughing Man tonight. I was touched by the packed crowd and everyone’s enthusiasm/indulgence of our wonk-nerd complexes (particularly Julian’s and mine). Matt Klokel of Fantom Comics is the best Comic Book Guy in the game. Now that I’m in love with Marvel’s iPhone app I don’t know how long [...]

I can offer you nothing about health care. What I can offer you is a pained meditation on my disappointment with Siege, a Marvel crossover event that’s easy to love and frustratingly difficult to like. The third issue of the series shipped Wednesday, as did the fifteenth issue of one of its affiliated stories, Dark [...]