Invoke the name of the wonderfully dweebmonikered F. Newton Minnow, and all that most people will know of him – if they know of him at all – is that back in some unimportant time before they were born, he wrote off American television as “a vast wasteland.”
Except he didn’t, exactly. Minnow got off the [...]

Fantagraphics has announced the imminent publication of Blazing Combat, a 208-page collection of the complete four-issue run (sans the Frazetta covers, which can be found elsewhere) of the fondly remembered war comics magazine that ran in the mid-1960s as a companion to Creepy and Eerie.

I plug rarely, but this stuff is too wonderful to pass [...]

With the second weekend of Watchmen marking the beginning of its swirl down the drain at the box office, a large part of the comics blogosphere started clearing their throats, avoiding each others’ gaze and looking for other things to talk about. That’s fine, as it turns out that it is possible to read the [...]

About damn time.

My grandfather’s old model hasn’t been the same since the sissy bar broke in that embarrassing carpool incident.

Now if I can just get the hat reblocked on his original Roomba…

Okay since the rest of the comics blogosphere has chosen not to cover it…
Earlier this month, actor and infomercial pimp Chuck Norris

(you know, CHUCK NORRIS!)

appeared on wackjob Glenn Beck’s radio show for a spirited discussion of how the current administration, with its godless talk of trying not to have wars and reining in the robber [...]

Five million comments and reviews of Watchmen hit the blogosphere last week, and the only thing most of them could agree on was the writers’ fascination with the size of Dr. Manhattan’s fission pole. Personally, said member didn’t strike me as being particularly big (see old joke with the punch line “Your mama’s spoiled, son”); [...]

Shuffling through my notes recently, I discovered a few things that I didn’t get around to posting before we tossed out the old calendars. But it’s never too late to repay debts or to give a dead horse one last good wallop, so…
Yikes, Will Everything I Ever Wrote Eventually Be Back in Print?
First, a plug [...]

The blogosphere, it makes me crazy, this thing of ours. There are some absorbing and amusing writers out there, a few as good as any professional journalist anywhere. And then there are the ones who make me want to ask nicely if they’ll put down the keyboard and go find a grownup I can talk [...]