My Stance on Pirating: It’s a Good Thing
CMYK Avenger The loss of media made available for purchase makes piracy critical - so long as we pay artists for material we can buy.
Ken Penders: A commission story and a warning
A walkthrough on the nightmarish process of getting a commission from Sonic artist Ken Penders.
Terry and the Pirates, Irresponsible Publishing, and Racism
The new Terry and the Pirates collection had an opportunity to address racism in historical comics. Instead, the reader was blamed for not understanding.
The Failure of Media Preservation and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Media preservation is broken, and we need to discuss what that means. Some of you may have heard about the recent shutdown of ROM sites LoveROM and LoveRetro—places to get…
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Year One – About Exclusive Stories
Wherein I ponder the difficulties of exclusive material in trade paperbacks by examining Power Rangers Year One, and come to an explosive conclusion.
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…
Comics, Barriers to Entry, and Ultimate Spider-Man
News of Brian Michael Bendis signing an exclusive contract with DC had me thinking about Ultimate Spider-Man, arguably the best thing he’s ever written. The voice of the series is…
Showing off the Shelves – 484, for my Dad
This column has been in the works for awhile. It was originally intended to be a lighthearted thing, a regular Showing off the Shelves. But much like writing as a…
Op-Ed: Bethesda, Obsidian, and $6 Million for a New Fallout (Part 4)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 8. They Don’t Have To Make Fallout (or) The Merits of a Spiritual Successor Feargus Urquhart has mentioned his fervent desire for Obsidian to…