Category: Writer’s Blog

This past Friday night, Dawn and I bought tickets at our local AMC multiplex, nipped over to the Dave & Buster’s bar across the way for a few drinks, and then settled back to catch a showing of Deadpool, which we’d […]
Read More

Perusing a recent article on the geek culture site Bleeding Cool, I was reminded of past ramblings of my own on the subject of schedules and sanity. Actually I was just reminded of the past (and present, and future) period. […]
Read More

Several of my good friends are pretty obsessed with the TV series Doctor Who, from whence comes the partial quote titling this blog where the titular Doctor tries to explain how time and determinism work. “People assume that time is a strict […]
Read More

Nervously, the cherubic little girl inched her way through the darkness of the old house on the hill. Somewhere along the way, she had become separated from the others trapped with her: the old professor, the little boy, the jock, […]
Read More

Last week was pretty rough for a lot of people. Both David Bowie and Alan Rickman passed on, and that caused a lot of emotion. Me? I looked at it as both having had long, awesome careers, and the thought […]
Read More

Well, in this case actually more of a syndrome of threes. A Trinity Syndrome. Don’t have time or inclination to read that link? Well, it’s an interesting article from June 2014 which points out an interesting aspect of how a […]
Read More

The year was 1980. The month, May, and a still quite young Clint was watching The Empire Strikes Back for the first time. Han Solo was my favorite, and he was proving his awesomeness with every moment — as opposed […]
Read More

Comics in America used to have the stigma that they were for little kids, and arguably still do have that image for a lot of people despite all the mainstreaming of “geek culture” in recent years. This was, after all, […]
Read More

If you’ve ever said the phrase, “when you assume it makes an ‘ass’ out of ‘u’ and ‘me’” — first off, please punch yourself in the face. Society can’t function without a certain set of assumptions, such as the assumption that […]
Read More

If you google up the word “tic” you’ll see two major definitions: a habitual spasmodic contraction of the muscles, most often in the face. an idiosyncratic and habitual feature of a person’s behavior. Wikipedia focuses entirely on the first. I’m […]
Read More

Well, if you’ve read this week’s comic post, you’ll know already. Otherwise: we’re sick. Usually I’m able to bang out a blog post at least, but right now all I want to do is crawl back in bed until this […]
Read More

I should some day check back through these blogs and see what my record is for writing entries without referencing the TV Tropes site. In any case, reset the count because today I have the Ascended Extra on my mind. Now in purest […]
Read More

Planned obsolescence is the (arguably somewhat obnoxious) strategy pursued by companies where they intentionally put an expiration date on a product that shouldn’t necessarily need one, making it necessary for you to pay all over again for an updated model. […]
Read More

When you’ve watched the original Star Wars as much as I have, and you have a propensity towards overthinking as much as I have, the thought can creep in unbidden: What do wild Banthas eat? I mean, look at the […]
Read More

I suppose it’s a writer thing, but I can be downright entertained by multiple meanings. For example, the verb “mining” could refer to the extraction of valuable resources, or it could refer to setting explosive booby traps ready to blow up in […]
Read More

It’s one of the most common questions you’ll hear a writer asked at a convention panel or other public appearance: “Where do you get your ideas?” And it’s one of the most common opinions amongst writers that this question is […]
Read More

So I have to be honest, at the conclusion of last Wednesday night’s literary reading I felt like a bit of a cheater. But for better or worse, a successful one. The zombies (or to be specific the zombie stories) carried the night […]
Read More

I’ve said before that it is perfectly possible to have a comic with pictures and no words, but it’s not possible to have a comic with words and no pictures. So what happens when I have to try and override my own proclamation? […]
Read More

If you have no interest in my continuing recap of our experiences shipping Kickstarter rewards, I suppose it’s best you mosey on along, cuz it’s not over yet. The United States Postal Service has a legendarily bad reputation, to the […]
Read More

Shipping. The part of the Kickstarter that’s probably the least awesome to think about. Some Kickstarter newbies don’t think about it at all, and end up deep in the red when all’s said and done because it wasn’t part of […]
Read More