Entries from May 2009

May 27, 2009

Interview: Jeff Jensen on ‘Green River Killer’

In this week’s PWCW, I talked to Entertainment Weekly reporter Jeff Jensen (no relation) about his upcoming graphic novel, Green River Killer. Read the Q&A right here (there’s no byline — blame Heidi !).
Jensen, in addition to being one of the best pop culture journalists out there and the master of all things [...]

May 22, 2009

Now Reading: ‘The Unwritten’ by Mike Carey and Peter Gross

There was a stretch of about six months over the fall and winter that I didn’t step foot in a comic book shop. In part, this was because, strangely, I was too busy working on comics projects. But I also had grown very, very bored with the single-issue format. No comic made me say, “Wow, [...]

May 22, 2009

Dick Cheney Says What?

In another sterling example of What Is Wrong With the Media, we have the big story of the day being that Dick Cheney and President Obama presented differing views on foreign policy. Particularly, torture.
As opposed to looking at the available facts and comparing the speeches, the coverage is more interested in the spectacle and potential [...]

May 20, 2009

End Radio Silence

I’m back in the online world after a trip back home to Nebraska, seeing family and helping plant an orchard with my folks. Also worked in the necessary game of pitch (a card game, if you’re unfamiliar) with my grandpa.
There’ll be some big news coming along shortly. A very cool project with Top Shelf Productions [...]