Category Archives: comics

31
Mar

A neat story mined with patches of chloroform

In my review of the comic book, I forgot to mention how weird it was to get “thought bubbles” of text bubbling from Buffy’s head. You virtually never had that in the TV show. Maybe one episode started with Buffy … Continue reading →

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14
Dec

Buffy Season 8, episodes 1-5

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 1: The Long Way Home What can I say about this? One of the unique things about the TV show was that it made the writers famous. Part of that was the fact … Continue reading →

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12
Sep

Crimson Dark

Chapter Four is now complete. You can see a content list with links here. So if you have not yet begun following the story, now would be a great time to begin since you have four (plus prologue) complete virtual … Continue reading →

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14
May

Crimson Dark

Crimson Dark is now beginning chapter four.  What that means is that chapter three is now completed and available to be read in one sitting!  This announcement is given to allow others the ability to exercise self-control and then gain … Continue reading →

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1
May

What made Frank Miller’s comic books great

In both ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN and THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, Miller’s moral is: the brutes are right. To cope with the world as it is, you have to be brutal. The way to deal with the Russian bastards (ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN was … Continue reading →

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29
Dec

Crimson Dark chapters

OK, if you are like me, even though you know reading one page every three days of a comic book is insufferable, you just can’t help yourself. But if you’re not like me, and can treat webcomics like real books … Continue reading →

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25
Dec

Crimson Dark for the holiday

Somehow this seemed like a great panel for Christmas day. Birth of the future after the longest night of the year (though not in Australia) and all that.

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