Updates have been complicated by my trip to the ass end of nowhere. This makes my usual riffs on important things like superheroes more difficult than usual. Instead, enjoy these […]
Articles
Satire on a fifth-grade level.
The Five Stages of Modern Grief
Denial It’s hard to beat the classics. Denial is the only element of the original five to survive the brutal test of time. When you’ve lost something (or some person, […]
Plasmid Marketing Meeting
Hotshot Sinclair Solutions marketing executive Jack Loki stares thoughtfully at the bottle of whiskey on his desk. The silence is broken by the entrance of a dishelved looking young man. […]
Orc Stain Vol. One Review
Read Orc Stain. Ancient review law requires me to spew a few hundred more words. But the executive version of my opinion is above. James Stokoe has put together one […]
Lucifex Dirge: Awakening in Death
It was raining. This rain was like his emotional state. The hunter took off his gloves. “Love!” he yelled, looking at the ring on his right hand. “Vengeance.” he muttered, […]
Captain America: The First Avenger Review
When you set out to create a shared universe the way that Marvel has done for their upcoming Avengers film, you run the risk of creating a movie too reliant […]
The Many Faces of Batman
The depiction of any character is bound to change with the writer. This is doubly true for characters that bounce around a shared universe for decades on end. But what […]
The Guide to Hostage Etiquette
“The world runs on manners.” These were the words my aunt left me before being permanently interred at Arkham Asylum. I took them to heart. You might not know it […]
On Origin Stories
Writing is an interesting task. You have to read things (anything) first, otherwise you’re probably going to turn out some of the most boring crap you or anyone else has […]
Justice League Cutbacks
My fellow heroes, Lex Luthor’s won his lawsuit over the broken collarbone he got during last week’s doomsday plot. We were already a billion or two in the red, so […]