For the first time in forever, I’ve read enough books to warrant wanting to brag about it. What better way to brag than by writing a round-up blog post?! Nothing short of a stage, a microphone and some sort of sparklie lights, of course...
If you didn’t already know it, I write a twice monthly column on the Kirkus Reviews blog focused on graphic novels. This year, despite lots of stuff going on around casa de ATFMB, I managed to read and review 24 graphic novels! I figured...
I have a new gig over on Kirkus Reviews talking about graphic novels tied to literary works. For the first piece, I decided to do Game of Thrones Vol 1 from Dynamite / Bantam. Here’s a clip: Making the leap from print to a visual medium...
I was looking for a book. This happens from time to time. I don’t have enough shelf space for all the books. So some still live in boxes. Searching around, I could not find the book, so I started looking in other places – like my...
I was looking for a book. This happens from time to time. I don’t have enough shelf space for all the books. So some still live in boxes. Searching around, I could not find the book, so I started looking in other places – like my...
Random thoughts for Friday, February 24th, 2012 /begin random thoughts You know that good feeling when you’ve finished all of your laundry and everything you own is now clean? Are you naked? Then everything you own is not clean… * * * I...
/begin random thoughts I’ve been offline more lately than is usual. Well, I say offline but really I am still online, I’m just staying focused on the tasks at hand and not doing as much Twitter as people are accustomed to seeing from...
Anthony Rogers first appeared in the pages of Amazing Stories waaaay back in 1928. He pulled a Rip Van Winkle, passing out in a cave and waking up in the 25th century. Gas in the cave held him in a sort of suspended animation, keeping him alive...
A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty, “Hi Yo Silver! Away!” With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early...
At the tender age of six years old, Harry Dresden became an orphan. His mother, Margaret Gwendolyn LeFay McCoy Dresden, had died giving birth to Harry and his father, Malcolm, died of a brain aneurysm leaving Harry all alone. For a few years...
One of my favorite characters in the Batman universe is Dick Grayson. Dick Grayson was the youngest member of a circus highwire act known as ‘The Flying Graysons’. When his family was killed right in front of him, it struck Bruce...
Rumors abound regarding all of the comic books movies coming down the pipe and Superman 2 (or is it 6?) is on the list. But the reboot of Superman didn’t do so well...
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