Four Pitches I Never Wrote For Comics

I don’t know about you, but God! There are days when I just can’t move for getting phone calls and emails from editors at Marvel Comics and DC Comics. “You’re a famous comic blogger,” they say, “why can’t you just come and write our comics for us?” And I have to keep turning them down, [...]

Political Science (Fiction)

(Yet another Onomatoepeia essay. This one from last summer, when I was starting to get obsessed by the Presidential Election, and wanted to write about it, even though Ono is really all about comics. Not that that stopped me, oh no.)
With the US Presidential elections just six months away, the cold and clammy grip of [...]

Iron Man: Comic Book Avatar

(Another Onomatoepeia essay. This one from just before the opening of the Iron Man movie, last summer. Remember when we were all worried about whether it’d be good or not. That’ll teach us not to trust in Jon Favreau, even though - let’s face it - he hadn’t done that much that was truly awesome [...]

It’s Just Like Being There, But Quicker

(Because you, uh, almost demanded it? Okay, you didn’t - unless your name is Jeff Lester, in which case you totally did. But I digress. 
(At last year’s San Diego Comic-Con, I ended up covering the Eisner Awards for io9.com; you can find the official post here, written in the weirdy sleep-deprived state that you end [...]

Some Important Albums

Just like I did with comics, here are some covers to important albums in my life. I’m still not entirely sure how I’m defining “important” in both cases, although unlike the comics, I still own all of these albums, somewhere, even if it’s just in a digital, iPod-friendly form. Anyway. Feel free to psychoanalyze me [...]

Five Better Ways For Batman To Die

#5: Accidentally slices his throat open after deciding to shave with a Batarang because he thought it would look “hardcore” and impress Catwoman.
#4: Heroically leaping off a building with a specially-constructed Joker-bomb in order to save a gang of scrappy orphans whom he had teamed up with to solve some child-related crimes. Amongst said orphans [...]

Awesome

It was the beginning of an era of greatness. It was the ’90s.

“Some people read comic books into their early 20s!”
(All jokes about how young everyone looks aside, can you believe that news of the formation of Image Comics really got covered by Lou Dobbs back in the day? I can’t work out if that’s [...]

Some Important Comics

In an attempt to get some actual content back on this blog - Something that entirely dropped off because we moved, and that took up a lot of time and brainspace - I thought I’d start with something very simple (in part because I just wrote a long post for Savage Critics - my first [...]