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Black Science: How To Fall Forever by Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera – A Book Review
I saw this book earned a little buzz so I thought I’d check it out. The premise is Grant McKay and his team have broken through the barrier between infinite dimensions. The machine making this capable, The Pillar, got damaged though, so they only have a little time before they jump to another world, and…
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We Can Be Writers (Just For One Day?)
We live in amazing era in that we can all be writers. If you want to write, the only thing stopping you is you. Seriously. I get asked quite often how one goes about getting published. There are so many different avenues to getting published, it’s always difficult to answer the question succinctly. The first…
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Meet Kevin Suess: Educator Extraordinaire, Activist, and Good Man
Back in 1995 when I was just a freshmen at Illinois State University, a guy lived down the hall from me named Kevin Suess. We became friends, and I’m glad to say it’s a friendship that has lasted almost twenty years. Even back in 1995, Kevin struck me as an honest person, a guy who…
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Zero: An Emergency by Ales Kot – A Book Review
Zero has gained a lot of buzz during the last several months. It’s typically described as a spy story with ruthless violence and a cold, detached protagonist. Its main claim to fame is that it features a different artist with each new issue. I’ll be honest. I’m not much for spy stories, but the book…
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Pretty Deadly: The Shrike by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios – A Book Review
This is a strange book and I mean that as a total compliment. Strange is good. Unique is appreciated. Original is commendable. Pretty Deadly is all of those things, and more. Pretty Deadly is not a linear story. Meaning, it doesn’t start at an origin, then progress to a conclusion. It sort of begins in…
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Get Mixed Up With Oh, Alchemy!
I’m proud to claim Oh, Alchemy as a local area band made up of very innovative musicians. Like me, they all have careers that they care about deeply, but their muse is irrepressible and so they write whenever they can, record whenever they can, and rock whenever they can. I’ve written about Oh, Alchemy before when…
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Shout Out to Jude Landry
Every once in a while I like to give a shout out to Jude Landry. Jude is an amazing artist. He’s won all kinds of awards and when I needed an artist to design the cover to my book, Andropia, he immediately sprang to mind and he nailed it. My basement is literally full of…
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Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke: A Graphic Novel I Feel Good About Sharing With My Daughter
I have loved comic books since the age of three. I still remember my first comic, an issue of World’s Finest featuring Batman and Superman. I still love comic books, but unfortunately have trouble finding appropriate ones to share with my six-year-old daughter. You see, even though I’m now thirty-seven, most Batman and Superman comic…
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Her – A Movie Review
I’m the first to admit that the premise of Her is preposterous. Set in the near future, a new operating system achieves artificial intelligence and will tailor itself to the owner’s needs. This isn’t a case of one massive computer lording over humanity, this is artificial intelligence for all. If you want to pay for…
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Manifest Destiny: Flora & Fauna by Chris Dingess and Matthew Roberts – A Book Review
It’s been a long time since I read a graphic novel that excited me as much as Manifest Destiny. I’m going to say it now: this is a must-read book. The premise is outrageous. It follows Lewis and Clark’s expedition through the American frontier in 1804. But they are not only charged with charting the…
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