I’m a writer who is always writing. Don’t let the constant tweets and general time wasting fool you, I write plenty. And not just those weekly reviews I link farm to, either, but real actual words. Words about things. Seriously. Right now, for some strange reason, heaps of my major writing has converged all at [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by ryan
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If you haven’t picked up Mystery Men then you’re missing out on some serious fun. It’s a Marvel pulp delight and this issue throws in some lycanthropic twists that only add to the layers of awesome already on display. Hit the link below to read: Mystery Men #4 review on CBR by Ryan K Lindsay [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by ryan
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American Vampire, Buy it. Read it. Love it. This issue wraps a few things up and seems to also drop one very monumentous occurrence on us. Get amongst it. Hit the link below to read: American Vampire #18 review on CBR by Ryan K Lindsay I gave it 4 stars because, “This issue will be [...]
Posted on August 25th, 2011 by ryan
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I’ve been a pretty big fan of Kill Shakespeare over the past year. It’s had many fun moments and some absolutely damn great moments. It’s wrapping up now and it does so pretty well. If you didn’t catch this title then pick up the two trades, they are definitely worth it. Hit the link below [...]
Posted on August 25th, 2011 by ryan
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Man, I am a pretty big Kevin Smith fan. Chasing Amy is my favourite flick of all time. But I know the man’s flaws and sadly they’re all on display in this comic. It’s not a great debut at all, for many reasons. I’ll stick it out to see if it improves but this is [...]
Posted on August 25th, 2011 by ryan
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With thoughtballoons scripts, it’s a tight deadline. I have other writing gigs going on right now so I generally go with the first idea to grab me for the week’s character choice. As soon as The Riddler was selected I came up with a Damian Wayne fight. I knew others would be getting out their [...]
Posted on August 23rd, 2011 by ryan
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You can hear me, Kurtis Wiebe, and Jeremy Holt talk about comic writing in the third episode of our podcast, THE PROCESS. Hit the link below and either listen to it streamed from the site or subscribe to the Image Addiction podcast on the iTunes machine. We’re only bi-weekly and run an hour and change. [...]
Posted on August 21st, 2011 by ryan
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It’s R2-D2 week on thoughtballoons and I thought long and hard about the tone I wanted to take. R2 has long been a sidekick, and punchline, and aid as well as comic relief. He’s been everything but actually serious and I wanted to give him (yeah, I see him as male) something that would get [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2011 by ryan
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Rick Remender is making this Venom comic better than it probably had any rights to be. That’s a good thing. Hit the link below to read: Venom #6 review on CBR by Ryan K Lindsay I gave it 3.5 stars because, “There are also some seriously bad-ass moments of the symbiote using a dog to [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2011 by ryan
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Kieron Gillen and Doug Braithwaite are doing a very good job on this Loki-centric Asgardian tie in arc. Check it out, as well as hit the link below: Journey Into Mystery #626 review on CBR by Ryan K Lindsay I gave it 3.5 stars because, “Get a taste of how Asgard should be; buy this [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2011 by ryan
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