Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Year One – About Exclusive Stories
CMYK Avenger Wherein I ponder the difficulties of exclusive material in trade paperbacks by examining Power Rangers Year One, and come to an explosive conclusion.
Showing off the Shelves 900 – I’m Going to Die Buried in Books
900 trade paperbacks. Inventorying them has been a slow nightmare – just know that I’ve only just started on the Ms. But 900 is an interesting milestone for me. I’m…
Co-Writing a comic with Don Rosa, and acting natural with Summer Glau
Conventions are stressful affairs, fraught with peril and, usually, good things. It’s getting there that’s the trick. I typically attend my local comic conventions, SpringCon and FallCon, which are very…
An Interview with Jeremy Whitley – The Return of Unstoppable Wasp
Co-written with K. Tilden Frost The first time Kay and I bumped into the work of Jeremy Whitley was when GeekMom’s Karen Walsh sent Kay’s now-10 year old an autographed…
Don Rosa in Review – The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Artist’s Edition Volume 1
When I reorganized my room to accommodate two new bookshelves, I had to be economical with my use of space. Sure, there are my trade paperbacks, but there’s also my…
Showing Off The Shelves – February was WEIRD
Last month was weird. Since my last Showing Off The Shelves, things avalanched. I mean, they avalanched personally, but so did my collection. Three different jobs landed in my lap,…
How To Collect JLA (It’s complicated)
Justice League, historically, has had problems with its collections. The new Justice League International Omnibus printed some pages in the wrong order, for example, and outright omitted some dialogue. This…
Rare books have no value
Whatever you think the rarest book in this picture is, you are almost certainly wrong. I own a lot of trade paperbacks. There are a number of reasons I buy…
We are our own worst gatekeepers: Showing off the Shelves
I have an odd relationship with my trade paperback collection. It often grows faster than I can read, I have no illusions about that. There are numerous great deals out…