Please refer to last week for part one. When last we met… Off to Gertz we went! Gertz was the department store back in the day. When we got there my mother walked right to the toy department and brought me Captain Action and the Batman and Superman costume changes. At that point I had…
My favorite toy ever is Captain Action. I mean EVER. When I was around four, my mother took my sister and me to a toy store. She told us we could have any one thing we wanted. My sister made a quick decision and choose a Barbie. I spent some time trying to choose between…
When I was in the eighth grade I began to notice that all things were not created equal. Up until then the sneakers I wore were generic sneakers. No brand name that I can recall everyone just called them Skips. One day some other kids started making fun of my sneakers. They were all wearing…
I’m on the West Coast, Mike Gold, ComicMix’s Editorial Director, is on the East Coast and that’s the reason there is a good chance this piece won’t even run today. My articles run on Tuesday so I try and get them to Mike no later than Monday morning East Coast time. Most times Mike gets…
DC Comics is hiring a very anti-gay writer named Orson Scott Card to write for them. That’s bad enough in my opinion, but they are giving him Superman to write. Damn DC. Giving a guy who wishes gay people were wiped off the face of earth is one thing, but giving him Superman is just…
Actually it was twenty years ago, but it wasn’t today. Look, any time I get to use a Beatles lyric in anything I write I’m using it. Nothing says witty and clever like a Beatles lyric or a Tupac and Biggie reference. Case in point. One time too freakin’ many an ex-girlfriend asked me in…
Last week I started telling the tale of Mike Richardson, CEO, publisher and owner of Dark Horse Entertainment and the hit he has put out on me. Please refer to part one before reading this. After years of back and forth Mike Richardson finally gives me the OK to proceed with my graphic novel, The…
Mike Richardson CEO, publisher and owner has ordered a hit on me. Here’s the story… Over a decade ago I sold a project to DC Comics and that deal fell apart. Why? Why does the phone always ring when you are in the bathroom? Why do gay people join the GOP? Why from behind certain…
“Comics are full of nice guys named Mike.” Either Mike Gold or Mike Grell said the above quote some 20 years ago. Considering I was just five at the time, please forgive me if I can’t remember who said what. What? Whoever said it was talking about the comics industry and the abundance of seemingly…
When I was a kid, comics were all I thought about. There was no better time in my day than when I was finished all my crap schoolwork and was able to turn my attention to the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man or Batman I was a child of DC but soon I was just as vested…
I finally watched The Dark Knight Rises last Saturday. Just a short recap: personal demons of mine kept me from seeing the film when it opened because of the shootings that happened during an opening night screening. The first day the film came to Blu-Ray I brought a copy and planed a Dark Knight Rises…
A few days ago I received an email from my friend John Jennings. John is a fantastic artist and teacher and I’ve known him for a lot of years. I was not happy with what John had to say and let him know it. What John wrote me was a pretty detailed accounting of why…
