I love words. I always have and it is one of the major reasons that I am a writer. I just down and dirty love words. Everything about them fascinates me, and it’s also why teaching English is easily my favourite subject to wax academic on. I love the look of words, I love the [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by ryan
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I just had a look at Duane Swierczynski’s post about the upcoming Darwyn Cooke adaptation of Richard Stark’s The Hunter, starring his greatest character, Parker. I went to the link and read the 19 page download. The first page looks like this; It’s a killer page with great art lines, wicked composition and just overall [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2009 by ryan
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I’ve read Noir for the second time. I like it and have some changes to effect, which I will begin tomorrow morning, bright and early at about 5:15am, after my shower wakes me up. I’ve finished reading Moby-Dick, and I honestly enjoyed it. Yeah, it’s didactic, yeah, it tells you more about whaling than you [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by ryan
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There are certain titles that make you happy to be a fan of comics. Incognito, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, is one of those titles. It’s a great idea, a supervillain is placed into witness protection, and it’s fantastic execution. It has shades of the pairings’ work on previous hit, Sleeper, and it has [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by ryan
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I’m giving my novel, Noir, a second pass. The photo above illustrates just how I do this. I am on holidays, will be for yet another week, and this makes my timetable flexible. After waking up, eating breakfast, exercising, doing the laundry and running to a club to confirm a booking my day is all [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2009 by ryan
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Hugh Jackman backs Free Comic Book Day. ‘Nuff said, really! Spread the word people. Spread the way, the truth and the light.
Posted on April 21st, 2009 by ryan
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I’m waiting on my brother’s notes for my latest novel so that I can see what he thought and make some changes affected from what he thinks or says. When I get his notes, hopefully this afternoon, I will give the rest of this entire week to trying to make this novel the best that [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2009 by ryan
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This just took me ages to find. It’s from Matt Fraction’s website. It was over a year ago, but I remembered it and had to track it down. Fraction wrote the comic The Immortal Iron Fist: Orson Randall and the Green Mist of Death and he had plans for a series of old school splash [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2009 by ryan
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You have to be reverent to the masters, they’re called masters for a reason, they were the best at what they did, and what Jack Kirby did was very nice indeed. In stores soon with be a Thor: Tales of Asgard reprint that will showcase some of the older stories. There was a preview on [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2009 by ryan
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As I teased yesterday, I am going to show you the last thing I bought at the secondhand book store. Now, be warned, ye who read here, this find is so cool that it may cause severe eye rod and cone trauma, as well as cerebral melt-down, and melt-up. This thing was a wicked find, [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2009 by ryan
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