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8 November 2011

The haunted house story is a timeless story that is rooted firmly in the economics of its time. One of the persistent lessons of horror is that we are not the masters of our collective domain that we think we are. There are monsters and sharks and mutants that will kill us for our arrogance. [...]

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Things About The Thing (2011)

17 October 2011

1. Every couple of years, a horror creator just flat-out impresses me. The wheel turns, you know, so they always disappoint me eventually, but right now, I am really a fan of Eric Heisserer. He Gets It. He understands the genre, not just in a ‘and then this happens, and then this happens way’, but [...]

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Scenes from my Morning Commute, October 11, 2011

11 October 2011

1. A used U-Haul truck which has been de-identified. The sides and rear door of the truck featured a crude logo made from what appears to be black electrical tape in an irregular, erratic-looking typeface. It read “The Gutter King”. I understand that The Gutter King probably is just a regular guy who cleans gutters [...]

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Occupied

10 October 2011

I’ve been thinking about Occupy Wall Street quite a bit over the past three weeks. I’ve been avoiding writing a post about it because I don’t want to ramble on incessantly or get to the spot where I start digressing on a dozen angry tangents. The most interesting thing about the movement – I think [...]

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Like, Madame Zardoz Or Whatever Her Name Is

16 September 2011

As a disillusioned liberal, I choose not to believe that the President of the United States is weak-willed or a sell-out or wholly lacking somehow in political acumen, as I have heard many opine. Instead, I choose to believe that he is kind of like Josh Baskin from the movie Big or the girl from [...]

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My Amazing Food Idea of the Day

16 September 2011

Let’s say that you have a skillet. You get some potatoes and you turn them into hash browns. Then you chunk up some Taylor ham or Canadian bacon. and throw that in the skillet. Then throw a few eggs on top of it. But Jeff, you’re saying, that’s basically just a frittata. And you’re right, [...]

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It’s A Process

7 September 2011

As I have taken on more and more design work, it seems more and more apparent to me that the clients that I work with all expect me to be a kind of Dumbledore, able to somehow willwork the impossible into possibility when their requests flagrantly fly in the face of common sense. My wand [...]

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The New Reader Experiment

2 September 2011

I thought that Justice League #1 was not the sort of book that you’d want to use to wow new readers. But I’m not a new reader. I’m a very old reader, having read comics now for nearly 30 years (I started very young). I am not the target demo here, and frankly that’s as [...]

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Cry for Justice

1 September 2011

Let’s assume that you’re running a comic book publisher.  One of the big ones.  Your market share has slipped, you’re afraid you’re losing relevance and you decide that, from a marketing perspective (and likely from a story perspective, too) you need to execute a balls-crazy Hail Mary play. You decide to rejigger your entire publishing [...]

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Doom Shall Not Countenance This Affront, Richards

25 August 2011

As you know, I listen to talk radio because I hate myself. Maybe, my friends tell me, I do it because I love to be outraged. I don’t think that’s true; I think, instead, that small bursts of outrage give me moments of focus and clarity that I might not otherwise have in a given [...]

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