Pop! Goes the Icon

So after difficultly digesting Amazing Spider-Man’s “One More Day” finale Friday night, I eventually moved on the read chapters six and nine of “Messiah CompleX,” and I have to say … I’m intrigued. Hooked almost. I’ll definitely finish out the rest of this crossover, and who knows, maybe I’ll begin to regularly pick up one […]

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My friendly neighborhood comic book shop (conveniently, two blocks from my apartment) closes at 7 p.m. I left the office at 6:35 p.m. I made it to Alternate Reality (possibly Las Vegas’ best comic shop) at 6:53 p.m.
Chapter Nine of “Messiah CompleX” was on the featured racks right up front; I picked that up immediately, […]

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Over at the Ear Farm music blog (”music information helps grow ears”), Matt posted a great entry about growing up into a metal fan in the ’80s, something I can somewhat relate to … the adoption of his parents’ pop 7-inches, the switching out of Michael Jackson memorabilia for more metallic pastures … the musical […]

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I didn’t actually mean to take a few days off. I was just overwhelmed with activities over the last week–some holiday-related, others not so much–that I haven’t had time to do much of anything, let alone blather to the world with my views on comic books, pop culture and other nonsense.
I’m not big on Christmas. […]

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Well, I guess that’s all of you, huh? Funny, I’ve never met a comic fan who says, “Eh, Kirby, he can suck it.”
I meant to put this stuff online last week, but, well, to be honest, the week flew away and Christmas snuck up on me. I was hoping to help out some comic fans […]

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I wandered into a Barnes & Noble last weekend with a friend who was on a Kurt Vonnegut book hunt, and displayed on one of the featured books tables was a bold, brightly colored book that caught my eye: The Jim Morrison Scrapbook. As an avid Doors fan and recovering Morrison wannabe, I had to […]

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You know, if I keep basing Pop! Goes the Icon posts on ideas culled from Sean Kleefeld’s blog, I might have to start paying him royalties (but given 25% of zero is still zero, I’m not too worried). However, in his post today about the diverging perceptions of comic books and comic strips, Kleefeld theorized […]

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When Christopher Nolan took on the task of rebooting the Batman movie franchise, I figured it was the best thing that could happen to Bats’ film career in the wake of Joel Schumacher’s defacing of the Dark Knight’s legend. But I didn’t really care, personally, about the film. In my much more tender years (has […]

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View Askew is casting extras for the next Kevin Smith debacle–um, I mean masterpiece, of course–Zack and Miri Make a Porno. If you live in the Pittsburgh area or are willing to travel, head over to Smith’s blog, My Boring Ass Life, for details.
In other news, I’m still working on that post in which I […]

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This entry is the first step in a process to relocate all of my public blogs from TypePad to hosting on my own vegasinsight.net server using WordPress as the publishing system. I know that sounds technical and all, but the basic thing is this: I already pay X amount of dollars for robust hosting of […]

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