Well, the city of Toronto is ecstatic with the Blue Jays’ victory over the Texas Rangers tonight. I don’t purport to be any sort of Baseball fan but I am a fan of Toronto. This city has so much to offer the world. As we’ve seen tonight, a major baseball …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s weekly comic review – 08/19/2015
We’re about two weeks away from what is arguably Canada’s biggest comic show: Fan Expo. Many of the artists and writers I’ll mention in past postings have been there. I usually hope to run into one or two, look at their work or show my appreciation. For example, Stuart Immonen, …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Weekly Comic Review: March 5, 2015
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Other than the obvious grammatical issues with that sentence, its reflective common-sense implication should be apparently obvious.
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Weekly Comic Review: Jan 7, 2015
Happy New Year! What do we hope for at the beginning of a new year? I think the most common aspiration is for the New Year to be completely different from the old one. I can’t say that I disagree with that notion, but I am given a lot of …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Log: the good crop, bad crop routine
Some crops are bad. Ask any produce grower – sometimes you get bad harvests and that’s just a fact of life. As in life so too with comics.
Read More »Captain Kirk’s log: Variety is the spice of comics
Variety… it might be cliché but it’s what makes life truly interesting, isn’t it? And that’s the great thing about comics: it’s a medium of great flexibility.
Read More »Captain Kirk’s pick: I want to lock myself in a comic book shop
If I had the luxury of time, I’d lock myself in a comic shop for about a day and just read. Forget the back issues, there are a lot of great comic companies taking chances and managing to get their stuff out on the shelves that it’s a sin that a lot of them are never read.
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Pick of the Pulls: Mercenary Sea #4
Come closer… I got a shameful secret to share. Shhh… it’s between you and me.
Read More »Rod Serling himself would be proud of ‘The Twilight Zone’ #1
If you were ever a fan of the show, I urge you to go and find this comic book. Open it up and find yourself suddenly transported to... The Twilight Zone.
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