“Hey, check it out – five foot tall classic Luke Cage, gaggle of Slave Princess Leias, Hello Kitty, Hulk, this is Cosplay Nirvana!” Road map note: the italicized quotes in this piece are all things I’ve said witnessing cosplay at comic book conventions. “Power Girl…  Power Girl…  talk about your double-take!” Well, maybe some of … Continue reading Dreaming in Public →

Like many born before the Apollo Moon landings, I listen to a lot of 20th century music. I’m not only old enough to have amassed actual vinyl. I’m so old, my own first record was released exclusively vinyl, ‘cause that’s what they sold at Tower Records through most of my college years. But despite what … Continue reading 99 SONGS I WANNA HEAR AT MY WAKE: Say You’ll Go and Peg O’ My Heart →

“Dizzy he was screaming Next to O.P. who was beaming Monk was thumping” That’s how the percussive, syncopated lyrics Jon Hendricks sang vocalese / scat style to Thelonious Monks’ In Walked Bud begin. Countless recordings of the song out there. Monk revisited it himself many times. Find a good example on a classic 1968 album, … Continue reading 99 SONGS I WANNA HEAR AT MY WAKE: IN WALKED BUD →

Toronto, April 14 and 15   I'll be signing with my friend and editor Michael Rowe I'll tell you what's new with Faust And catch you up on the littlest bitch and other projects

I was talking about Marvel in the 90s, a bloody time for comics: A superhero speculator boom cycled bust Marvel’s owners pushed it toward its bankruptcy Publishers shipwrecked the industry upon short-sighted exclusive distribution deals, costing thousands of people who made comics, published comics, distributed comics or sold comics their livelihood Amidst the Marvelcution, do … Continue reading Imagineer for a Day →

"I believe the children are our future.” “I also believe that when you travel into the past, you won’t alter the future, only create an alternate timeline.” Right now Her Royal Shortness thinks Star Wars is just another lame cartoon her cousin watches. And on the first grade playground, if you get called “Jar Jar,” … Continue reading PREVIOUSLY ON GEEK DAD WAR JOURNAL →

Hey, in our Internet face this month: Odd, amusing and counter-intuitive revelation: Aquaman, who suffers “talks-to-fish” jokes even in his own title outsold the monthly product dump of X-Men Depressingly business-as-usual outrage du jour over a complex case of trademark enforcement It’s got me thinking about Marvel. Remember Marvel? Marvel, the company. And Marvel, the … Continue reading What If The Mouse Bought Marvel and No One Came →