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  • When Children’s Movies Trusted Us With the Darkness

    Jul 30, 2026
    Essay, Fiction, Nostalgia, Persuasive, Uncategorized
    childrens movies, darkness, grief, inside out, mark twain, movies, my girl, neverending story, nostalgia, soul, thematic

    Ugh… here we go “BWAAK MOVIES DON’T GET MADE LIKE THEY USED TO!! BWAAK! A MOVIE LIKE THIS OLD ONE COULD NEVER BE MADE TODAY!! BWAAK!!” In some form or another we’ve all heard this obnoxious mantra. It’s especially relevant today because it often comes from a political place – a perceived censorship of fiction…

  • Returns after long hiatus’ and Large Changes

    May 23, 2026
    Comic Book, Creative, Fiction, Musing, Process, Projects, The Omega Children
    comic book, comics, Creative Process, Fiction, novel, personal update, prose, worldbuilding, Writing

    After months away, I’m finally returning with an update on life, loss, moving, and the strange evolution of Omega Children. The comic version taught me the shape of the world, but prose has given the story back its interior life. The project is not gone. It just changed shape again.

  • Never Forget: TV Shows That Deserved Better

    Aug 30, 2025
    Nostalgia, Review, TV
    Boomtown NBC, Bryan Fuller, Cancelled Too Soon, Cult TV, Forgotten TV, Generator Gawl, Homeboys in Outer Space, Jeffrey Donovan, Lost TV, Murder One ABC, Norm MacDonald, Ray Wise, Reaper TV Show, The Invisible Man Syfy, The Norm Show, Titus TV Show, Touching Evil, TV Nostalgia, Tyler Labine, Wonderfalls

    From Reaper to Titus, these are the TV shows that vanished too soon – forgotten gems, bizarre experiments, and cult classics that deserved more love. A personal love letter to the shows that slipped through the cracks.

  • A Super Killer Review!

    Aug 26, 2025
    comic book, Essay, Review
    comic book, comic-books, comics, Fiction, Marvel Comics, reviews, Writing

    Superkiller #1 delivers jokes, exposition, and a glimpse of promise after years of delay. But does Vito Gesualdi’s comic stand on its own, or is it another product of the influencer comic craze where fans buy into personality as much as story? Let’s find out.

  • Camouflage, Conspiracies, and Deer Who Can’t See Orange: Are Hunters Hiding from More Than Just Wildlife?

    Aug 2, 2025
    Uncategorized
    Blaze Orange, Camouflage, camouflage psychology, Color Perception, conspiracy culture, Deer Vision, Dichromats, facebook spiral, Hunter Safety, Hunting Culture, Late night thoughts, Outdoor safety, Predator vs Prey, weird science

    Deer can’t see orange – so why do some hunters hide in full camo? A weird late-night spiral into vision, safety, and the psychology of invisibility.

  • It’s Clobberin’ Time!!! A Review of Fantastic Four: First Steps

    Jul 26, 2025
    comic book, Review
    Ben Grimm, Comic Book Movies, Cosmic Marvel, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four First Steps, FF Movie Review, Galactus, Johnny Storm, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Phase 6, Marvel Studios, Marvel’s First Family, Movie Reviews, Nerd Commentary, Reed Richards, Retro Futurism, Shalla-Bal, Silver Surfer, Sue Storm, Superhero Movies, Superhero Team Dynamics

    A lifelong fan of Marvel’s First Family reviews Fantastic Four: First Steps – the best cinematic take on the team yet. From Galactus and a reimagined Silver Surfer to heartfelt family dynamics and stretchy missed opportunities, this is a sincere, nerdy dive into what works, what wobbles, and what’s still wonderfully weird.

  • Marvel’s first Family: My Fantastic Four Journey Before First Steps

    Jul 23, 2025
    Comic Book, comic book
    art, Comic Books, Comic Retrospective, Doctor Doom, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four Review, Fiction, John Byrne, Jonathan Hickman, Marvel Comics, Stan Lee

    Ahead of the new Fantastic Four: First Steps movie, I dove headfirst into decades of comics history—from Lee and Kirby’s cosmic origin to Hickman’s multiversal crescendo. What I found was a story of science, family, heartbreak, and joy that reshaped my view of Marvel’s First Family. Here’s what I read, what surprised me, and why…

  • Nicknames, Memory, and the Versions of Ourselves We Forget

    Jul 19, 2025
    Musing
    Funny, Memory, Nicknames

    From childhood burns to adult in-jokes, a look at the weird trail of nicknames and how memory chooses what to keep (and maybe why).

  • Are Cape Movies Back? The New Superman Review

    Jul 12, 2025
    Comic Book, comic book, Movie, Review
    comic book, dc, dc-comics, Fiction, james-gunn, movies, superman

    Decades of DC fandom, a toybox full of comics, and cautious optimism going in—here’s how James Gunn’s Superman (2025) somehow pulled it all off. Dense, hopeful, weird, and yes, even punk rock.

  • “True to the Comics” Is Meaningless, and I’m Tired of Pretending It Isn’t.

    Jul 12, 2025
    Comic Book

    Actors love to say they’ll be ‘true to the comics’—but what does that even mean when these characters have 50+ years of wildly different stories? This article digs into why that phrase has become meaningless, why real passion still matters, and which actors actually walk the walk.

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