The mission. The task. The responsibility. The measure of a successful character is the dedication to the task he has either been given or has given himself. That’s what we are looking at this time around. So, let’s get to the list for this week! IDW Publishing Star Trek vs …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Weekly Comic Review – 12/12/2018
“We … do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; …” That’s a truncation of President John F. Kennedy’s famous Rice Stadium speech exhorting the American public to support the Apollo space program. It’s one of my favourite speeches, not just because it talks …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Weekly Comic Review – 10/10/2018
Just what in the forgotten wastelands of Comic-dom am I going to write about this week? If you’ve been following my weekly column, I decide upon a theme and select Wednesday comics that fit that theme as my pull list for the week. This week, it’s a bit of a …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Weekly Comic Review – 06/13/2018
New beginnings are always important in life. I’m not really one for change though, so I’m probably running the risk of sounding hypocritical here, yet I see the dividends in my friends’ lives when they decide upon this course of action. However, it has to be carefully planned out; It’s …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Weekly Comic Review – 05/09/2018
The theme this week is hopeless battles and why we fight them. There’s a lot of reasons, and sure enough, they come up in this week’s selection of titles. I’ve got my own thoughts on the subject, but let’s get to them at the end of the list. IDW Publishing …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Weekly Comic Review – 01/10/2018
There’s a theme for this week’s collection of titles. I’m a hierarchical type of thinker. I tend to think in patterns, trends or in some sort of thematic way. That formed the basis for this week’s list and it was fun pulling it all together. See if you can figure …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Weekly Comic Review – 09/13/2017
Here we go again, folks. It’s another great week of comics and here’s a selection that you could look forward to reading to as we dwell in the dog days of summer. IDW Comics Real Science #6 I want to like this … but I can’t get past the art. …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Weekly Comic Review – 08/09/2017
I think the key to a successful series is intrigue. While a cliffhanger is a cheap way to simulate the genuine desire to follow a story through, it’s an easy write. It’s quick and it’s over fairly quickly. A real intrigue has mood and a slow burn, but not too …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Weekly Comic Review – 07/12/2017
I’m beginning to feel the pangs of comic-con deprivation. Yup … it’s that time again and, you’d think that I’d have grown accustomed to not being a part of the near-religious fervor that is San Diego Comic-Con, yet after being there last year, I have to say that I now …
Read More »Captain Kirk’s Weekly Comic Review – 06/14/2017
It’s a nostalgic time of the year for me. It’s when my students begin to start considering their futures as they move into the next stage of their lives. Yet for me, as much as they look forward, I look back at the work we’ve shared and I resort to …
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