Category: Writer’s Blog

I don’t usually post about current events outside the sphere of pop culture, but in this case the events are broad enough they’re intruding on it. The week before last Dawn and I were at WonderCon and also hearing from […]
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The Eaton Fire was a very near miss on our place and it was good to take a break while we dealt with insurance, cleanup, etc. It could have been a lot worse for us but being on the frontlines […]
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Hot take nearly half-a-decade past its prime: Red Dead Redemption 2 is turning out to be quite the good video game. I didn’t buy it on its release in 2019 and continued not to buy it all through COVID. Maybe […]
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I’m not a “five year plan” kind of guy, for the most part. I guess Zombie Ranch might be an exception just based on it existing for 14 years and counting. We’ve slowed down considerably but haven’t stopped, which is […]
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Is the term “killer app” still in parlance in the tech community? If not, quick rundown: hardware by itself doesn’t sell, or at least doesn’t sell for long. This is particularly true with game consoles and is why they tend […]
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Schrödinger aside, this title is referencing us. Dawn and I don’t have kids, we have a cat. Our agreement was that if we ever divorced, the person who asked for it would have to take custody of the cat. We […]
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Easy there, cowpokes — if you didn’t know, “homogeny” just refers to things that are the same. It’s great for some things, like gears or screws of a certain size. In creative fiction, though, maybe not so much. Take for […]
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It’s been about 15 years since I started being “in the business” — if you can say so about someone whose business consists of two people doing their best with self publishing a work of fiction. Still, I’ve learned enough […]
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So a friend of ours is a cartoon storyboard artist and a fan of the animated series My Adventures with Superman, to where he made his own (unofficial) animatic of an opening sequence for the recently(?) debuted character of Supergirl. […]
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When I was a kid, I had no patience for “old stuff.” What that meant could vary but one example would be the (now defunct) concept of Saturday morning when all the cartoon blocks would play on the television. Somewhere […]
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I kept hearing good things about this one but we had never gotten around to actually watching it. Train to Busan was Korean cinema’s 2016 submission to the zombie apocalypse genre, and eight years later Dawn and I gave it […]
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As a young tabletop RPG nerd, I recall poring over the 4th edition Champions game book. Actually I suppose almost more of a tome, since at the time it was the thickest RPG manual I’d ever owned. Future me would […]
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I put a flippant title on this, in full knowledge that hey, that’s a decent pun and I’m depriving myself of a comic page title down the road. Although I’m pretty sure if I scoured through the now over 500 […]
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As a rule, I don’t binge watch shows. Maybe three episodes in one sitting would be my record before I feel the urge to take a break. Most of the time it’s a single dose. I binged the Fallout tv […]
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WonderCon 2024 has come and gone and we’re left to wonder about the results of our experiment with packing up and moving to a smaller but potentially more lucrative space. For many years we’d exhibited in the Small Press area […]
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I’ve mentioned Dutch film director Paul Verhoeven many times over the course of these blogs. Not every movie in his oeuvre is a classic, but his big three (IMO) are all but ingrained into my DNA and, by process of […]
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So it’s been a few weeks since my last post, but I haven’t forgotten that I promised to go into some of my half-baked theories on writing. I rambled around the topic enough in the past entry that I’m not […]
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If you own a copy of our first trade paperback, or you’ve browsed or been around for some of the extra content we’ve posted in the past, or been by our table at SDCC back when I was doing free […]
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The story Roberson tells in this week’s comic isn’t made up. It took me some seearching but I at last backtraced a vague but powerful memory of my youth of watching a documentary film where baby birds were dropping dead […]
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  Hype is a dangerous beast. Getting caught up in hype can drown your brain in so much excitement that your critical functions submerge in a sea of serotonin, and before you know it you’ve invested your time, money, and […]
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