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Went to the comic shop yesterday. Here’s a quick look at what I picked up: Amala’s Blade #0 From Dark Horse. Gritty, steampunkish fantasy setting. The titular heroine is, spoiler alert, not entirely sane. She’s also taking a pirate ship this issue. Art more on the cartooning side then the photo-realistic, which suits the story [...]

I love HEARING a good story; audio books, original audio plays, old time radio episodes, etc. I also like tuna fish sandwiches. These two things have combined to turn me into Pavlov’s audiophile. How It All Began There’s a British company called Big Finish that produces original Doctor Who audio plays and radio dramas featuring [...]

This Book Is About A debonair young Englishman, Psmith (“the p is silent, as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan”) has quit the fish business, “even though there is money in fish,” and decided to support himself by doing anything that he is hired to do by anyone. Wandering in and out of romantic, suspenseful, and [...]

So, we’ve got that old adage about not judging a book by its cover but, let’s face it, we do. That’s part of why books HAVE covers. Well, cover art that is. Have you ever read a book that had cover art you could just sit and stare at? I have, and here are are [...]

To anyone paying attention, sorry about the lack of posts lately. Half of it is that I’ve been lazy. The other half is that I’ve been busy writing posts for the Convention Fans Blog, of which I’m the Assistant Editor. Working on getting enough emotional energy together to resolve the lack of posts that plagued [...]