Mathias DeRider 
CMYK Avenger AwesomeCon & SpringCon 2019 – Little Con-goer, Big City
The AwesomeCon and SpringCon experience - going to conventions as a family, going alone, and comparing big and smell cons.
How To Collect – Carol Danvers’ Captain Marvel
How to read the fifty years of Captain Marvel, aka Carol Danvers, comics. With Gerry Conway's Ms. Marvel to Kelly Sue DeConnick's historic relaunch and more.
Why trades, anyway?
A discussion of why trade paperbacks are my preferred format for reading any and all comics, as well as my history as a comics reader.
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.
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,…