I am on a comic fan’s cloud nine right now.

Hey, guys — remember I told you how I just discovered that Dark Horse Comics quoted me in promoting its amazing 2019 “Grendel” series (right under Alan Moore, no less!)?

It turns out that some major entertainment news sites featured the entirety of the company’s promotional materials, so the quote was carried in tripwire magazineBroken Frontier and Pastrami Nation.

I’m still honored that I was even quoted at all, in connection with an iconic comic character that I’ve loved since I was a kid.  This is a fan’s dream!



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Cover to “Batman: Shadow of the Bat” #25, Brian Stelfreeze, 1994

DC Comics. “Knightquest: The Crusade.”

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Doctor Strange ain’t got nothin’ on this.

Remember that one night I employed druidic sorcery to soar over everyone in the forest? THAT WAS AWESOME.

People keep telling me the forest is beautiful. But I can’t see it for the trees.



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Album cover for “Depeche Mode 101” (1989)

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VADER’S ON THAT SHIP. I CAN FEEL IT.

Anyone ever notice that the top of the Taubman Museum of Art looks like a lot like an imperial star cruiser?

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Cover to “House of Secrets” #99, Mike Kaluta, 1972

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This is an honor.

I discovered something incredibly cool this afternoon — it turns out that the good people over at Dark Horse Comics quoted me in their 2019 promotion of Matt Wagner’s superb Grendel: Devil’s Odyssey.  The eight-issue limited series marked the return of the iconic Grendel Prime, who I last followed as a zealous young fan in the pages Grendel Tales (1993-1997), Batman/Grendel II (1996) and Grendel: Past Prime (2000).

Dark Horse quoted a review I wrote of Wagner’s Grendel: Omnibus Volume 1 (2012), which was a compilation of the writer-artist’s brilliant early work on the title.

I’m thrilled.  Wagner’s a genius — and while Grendel’s dark, violent content is not for everyone, it’s always been a seminal title for the medium of comics.  I remember greedily snapping up back issues when I was a college student in 1992 — I never thought the day would arrive when a review of mine would be referenced to attract new fans.



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Cover to “The Unexpected” #116, Nick Cardy, 1970

DC Comics.

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Alpha-Bits!

I answered a question on Twitter — and my short thread of responses really took off, with a couple of tweets getting about 5,000 likes each.  (That isn’t a lot by some standards, but it’s a lot for me; I typically don’t get a huge amount of attention on the platform.)  Sharing here.

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Looking north to downtown Roanoke, VA, from South Jefferson Street, October 2021

I just like how all those boxlike squares juxtapose themselves with one another.

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