Anecdotes

Read this take on a new foreign film remake: An American “Old Boy” Remake? WTF?!?.

I’ve been attempting to write, but I’m having problems clearing away the cobwebs from the recesses of my brain. It’s making it difficult for me to write this morning. I promise to be back with a post about another remake. If you’ve read some of my past posts, you know …

I also picked up the first 2 collected volumes of the Cool Jerk comic strip. This strip is a bit of hit or miss for me. Some of the strips are absolutely hilarious. Some of the others have pop-culture references that I don’t get. Mostly in the first volume, where …

After that was a CBLDF panel on the fight to defend manga. The short version of the issues is that since a lot of manga characters are in high school and are often depicted in “sexual fashion” that some agencies are treating it as child pornography. Despite that there are …

After that was the Rad Bradbury introspective. That was simply touching. We finished our panels for the day with Archaia: How to Effectively Pitch a Story. It was after this that I got to bug Mark Smylie for more Artesia. See the Archaia post for more details about that. Throw …

Since our managing editor has already given the details of our Comic-Con trip, I’ll just provide the highlights from my experience/perspective. This was my first year at Comic-Con and I was approaching it with mixed feelings. I’ve always liked/read comics but.. I don’t read super-hero comics (yes, there are other …

Last night, me and my SO made the brief drive to Palo Alto to go to a free event. I saw it last week on Facebook. Geek and Sundry was putting on an event with Days of Wonder games. The idea is that you were supposed to Beat the Founder …