All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase DS Game] The great thing about the Nintendo DS is that while it’s a hand-held system, it’s got enough power to be a decent standard system, too — along with a lot of great games for the system….
Image by Chuckumentary via Flickr [Purchase CD] The new Negativland album is quite different than all their other albums — if absolutely forced to pick a comparison, it might be something like Dispepsi jammed through Points. If you’ve heard those albums, you…
[Purchase Book] Language is a topic that’s right up my alley; I like hearing about how it’s formed and how it is used. I wish I were better at learning foreign languages, in fact, since it’s something I find fascinating… just something…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase DVD] A lot of people are familiar with “Dead Puppies Aren’t Much Fun”; some are probably familiar with “Kinko The Clown“, and maybe even “Daddy’s Money“, all common appearances on the Dr. Demento show. But I don’t know…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] The title of this second volume of Mark Evanier‘s POV columns will likely get the eyes of any comic book fan — and most likely get their dander up. Granted, most comic fans would recognize Evanier’s name…
[Purchase Book] Jeffrey Brown is probably most known for his autobiographical comics like Unlikely, Clumsy and AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy (my favorite of the trilogy) — each following his awkward relationships with a different woman per book. After that, he’d done a…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] Perhaps the one thing I like more than comic books seems to be books ABOUT comics. Y’all have probably gathered that one by now, too. I’m also a bit of a Mark Evanier fanboy — turned on…
[Purchase Book] There are times in which a graphic novel can so perfectly capture the balance of satire and action that one literally cannot decide whether to laugh or marvel. Well, sure, it’s possible to do both at once, but it doesn’t…
[Purchase Book] The volume of Space Raoul put out by SLG Publishing is a collection of strips that appeared in The Funday Times (a comics supplement to the Sunday Times) and The Dandy, a UK comic magazine. There’s definintely a British sensibility…
[Purchase Book] Lulu & Mitzy: Best Laid Plans is not only the debut of a new series, but also the debut of the author, S. Eddy Bell. The fact that it’s a debut is particularly amazing, considering how absolutely outstanding this book…