hipsterdad

I really, really like arena football.

Right now, Orlando's ahead of Philly. I'm not sure which team I want to win, since I detest Florida and I don't much like Philly's owner, Jon Bon Jovi, either.

Boy, arena football... now there's an interest not shared by very many people on this site.

The ads for NBC's new series Windfall look pretty interesting though!

Welcome to the Weekly Comics Hype! I do these alphabetically, but occasionally skip around a bit, and today I've come to the sort of book I rarely enjoy, a black-and-white autobiography. The world of independent comics is stereotyped as being full to choking with tales of the creators' own lives, and most of those efforts are pretty tedious and grim. But there are occasional examples...
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Its time again for another Weekly Comics Hype. I tend to do these alphabetically, and this week brings me to the Ls on my shelf and the phenomenally entertaining series Love & Rockets by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez. This is effectively an anthology series, with each brother telling stories in their own, separate worlds, and occasionally adding unrelated strips alongside them. This week I want...
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Its time again for another Weekly Comics Hype, but I dont have time to write one! So forgive the repeat; Ill add some additional information at the end of it!

Although it was eclipsed long ago by the X-Men, The Avengers was, once upon a time, Marvel Comics' principal superhero team book. It is still the central, core title for their mainstream world of superhero...
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Hellfire! My neighborhood karaoke bar has closed!

Wherever shall I warble now?

Its time again for another Weekly Comics Hype. Im doing these alphabetically, but skipping around a bit, and today I want to tell you about one of the craziest, wildest, most gun-mad capers Ive ever read, a story where the stakes get higher and higher with each issue and somehow the creators rise to their escalating challenge with a style that belies their short time...
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Its time again for another Weekly Comics Hype. (Actually, it's past time to update this journal...) Im doing these alphabetically, but skipping around a bit, and we havent had any Alan Moore in the hype lately. If ever an omission needed rectifying, its this. When the first series of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen began in 1999, it immediately caught the attention of readers who...
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