Secret Council (Short Film)

Late last year, before social distancing and isolation guidelines would have made this impossible, my team and I worked on a short short film called Secret Council as a learning exercise.

100 Years, 100 Creators – Part 7

Over a few posts, I’m choosing different creators or creative teams–novelist, composer, scriptwriter, comic book artist, etc–who have influenced or inspired me, and in most cases brought me a lot of enjoyment.

Weekly Geeky Question #46: Comic Book Recommendations for Non-Comic Readers

Every week in 2018, the plan is that my friend Rod is going to ask me some geeky question that will answer in a post. This week is Week #46, and today’s question is one that Rod describes as quite basic–indeed, he wasn’t sure if it was something he’d already asked. But he hasn’t, and so hear we go.

What are some comics I’d recommend to a non-comic reader to get them started?

Favorite Fictional Heroes Countdown–Part 6 (#50-41)

And the countdown to my favorite fictional hero continues.  In today’s episode, we have four characters from Doctor Who, two superheros, one short semi-humanoid who becomes central to an epic fantasy adventure (and he’s not a Hobbit!), one police officer, one smuggler and one English gentleman.

Read previous posts here:
• Part 1 (102-91) and rationale for the lists
• Part 2 (90-81)
• Part 3 (80-71)
• Part 4 (70-61)
• Part 5 (60-51)

47 Great Things About this Past Year

Today is my birthday!  And more than that, it’s my 47th birthday.  What does that mean?  Well, it means I’m getting on a bit, I guess.  And it means it’s only three years to 50.  It means I’m closer to 80 than I am to when I was born.  Goodness.

But as regular readers know, 47 is my favorite number.  Even if I don’t think it’s really all that important, I’ve decided to celebrate it a bit, and one of the small ways is to write this post.  Looking at the last year–June 7, 2016 until today–what have been some of the great things?  Some of the things I’ve really enjoyed or appreciated or been grateful for?

Hocking Hills State Park (Old Man’s Cave & Bone)

I travel a fair bit, which I don’t normally write about that much, but I thought I’d give a quick shout-out to Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio. My wife and I were driving from Chicago to New York, visiting friends along the way. I wasn’t seeing anyone in Ohio and was looking for a place to stay. Looking up attractions in Ohio, I came across the Hocking Hills, which has a number of things to see that are well worth it if you have the chance.

After we had made the choice, I found out that I have actually “encountered” one of these attractions before, in a manner of speaking. It was in a comic book, of all places.

One of my favorite non-superhero comics (there are a few that I have enjoyed) is Bone.