Spikor Strikes! … and so does Lee Nordling!
“Spikor Strikes” looks like a fairly typical He-Man and the Masters of the Universe minicomic. It introduces a new villain. The villain gets soundly trounced […]
June 2007
Get medieval on your cartooning — Part 2
Following up with my medieval character sketches, I fleshed out the the primary figure, who I’m calling Falcon.I see him as a neurotic, but capable, […]
Many jobs over many years
I got thinking about all the jobs I’ve held over the years. From one-shot day work to lengthy assignments to free-lance projects, I’ve had a […]
The darkness of Western New York
I spent a portion of my vacation last week in central western New York. It’s beautiful, spacious country in the day, and at night, the […]
Get medieval on your cartooning — Part 1
Fresh off reading “The Blue Tunics” and a volume of “Asterix,” I found myself inspired by the Dupuis style and set off sketching up some […]
Charge ahead with The Blue Tunics
As I was shuffling through the discount boxes at Comic Store West, I came across a curious hardcover book.It was weird. It was a cartoony-style […]
Septimus: The future of D6?
West End Games is offering a new role-playing game for preorder. The new game is called Septimus and it’s got the looks of a “Star […]
Lessons from “Freaks and Geeks”
The wife and I spent the last few evenings watching NBC’s far-too-short-lived “Freaks and Geeks,” an hour-long dramedy about a high school in 1980.The series is […]
No cleric? No problem! — A solution to party engineering
A common problem when building a brand-new Dungeons & Dragons party is the fact that filling out all the chief party roles can be difficult. […]
No cash for comics
As the weeks wear on where I have no money for comics, I’ve found myself sifting through a lot of my old stuff.One week, I […]
It’s all inside The Okay Adventure Annual
I stumbled across a copy of “The Okay Adventure Annual,” ahybrid of a comic-book collection and a pulp magazine published out ofLondon around 1955, while […]