I dig Wolverine as a character. I have to admit he’s pretty cool, and his power set is absolutely awesome. Healing powers that seem to get stronger every year, unbreakable bones, massive claws popping out of his hands, and a fine pelt on his chest that puts even me to shame. Yes, he’s overplayed. Seriously [...]
Posted on October 31st, 2009 by ryan
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The comic Criminal from the genius teaming of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips has always been a fave. I picked up their four trade run on Sleeper and it instantly became one of my favourite collections, and also showed me what other new stuff could be achieved with comics. The mix of superheroes and noir [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2009 by ryan
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Duane Swierczynski has a new novel coming out soon. That one sentence could be its own post for me. That’s so much information to process that I’d sit back quite content. But, there’s more. On his site, Swierczynski shows the new cover for the book. I can’t even wait, here it is. It’s a pretty [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2009 by ryan
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1) My mother once: cooked hand-cut chips in the oil cooker. It wasn’t until after serving them that she realized she hadn’t poured oil into the cooker, it was apple cordial. She laughed so hard that I knew it was the only thing holding back the tears. It’s always been that way with my mother. [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2009 by ryan
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I am out there. I’m looking for an agent, or agency. I am sending my writing off into the world. It’s a first step, but I am very sure the first of so many more to come. At first that sounds promising, but it is not, it means I know this will take a while [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2009 by ryan
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This week’s comic haul was an interesting group. Overall I must say it was pretty good, kept me interested, showed me pretty stuff, and I enjoyed it. But there are levels to my enjoyment. Let’s walk through those levels, shall we? Strange Tales #2 An anthology, a mixed, bag, surely there has to be something [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2009 by ryan
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I’ve got an enrichment Year 5 class for the rest of this year. It’s only one term, so they’ve, apparently, learnt most of the Year 5 content to be covered, but there’s still more to go, plus I have a firm ideology that all learning is life-long, there’s no good time to stop or rest, [...]
Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by ryan
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I wonder what will become of my writing. So far I have written three novels, about a dozen or so short stories, two short film scripts, probably around over thirty comic scripts, one webcomic with over a dozen page scripts, twenty three poems of varying length, two reference essays; not to mention the other stuff [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2009 by ryan
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I was probably about ten when I read Stephen King’s Night Shift. It’s a short story anthology and I loved it so much when I read it. It was one of the few books that myself and my two brothers had read and so we discussed it a lot. It was also one of those [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2009 by ryan
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Blue-Tongue Films is the home of Aussie wonder kids Joel and Nash Edgerton. They’ve made short and long films between them, and they always seem to impress. They’ve got a variety of genres covered and whatever they film always seems to come out looking polished and professional as hell, not to mention being thoroughly enjoyable. [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2009 by ryan
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