Slow week this go around, seems the Spring Break scheduling blues the TV networks get effects the publishers as well. ON WITH THE SHOW! Batgirl #18 (DC) This week’s Batgirl deals with the aftermath of the “Death in the Family” storyline that has been tearing through the Bat-verse these past few months. Of note is [...]
Missing emails, technical difficulties and drowned keyboards, now is the time to catch up on the last few weeks while we can! There are a lot to cover, but most of the titles I have mentioned before. All are worth mentioning again or for the first time and should be checked out as soon as [...]
Finally, Spotify has released the music streaming service app for Windows Phone 8 users. Sure we may be a little biased around here, but we’ve been waiting for a Spotify app since we technically had one on Windows Phone 7. Now it’s available to the masses. You can download your copy from the Windows Phone [...]
This week we have some great titles, just in time for Valentine’s Day! Young Romance: The New 52 Valentine’s Day Special #1, One Shot (DC) Love abounds in the DC Universe in this one shot special featuring six stories dealing with various relationships across the rebooted time line of The New 52. More like vignettes, [...]
This is for your gut therefore it is relevant; IHOP is once again giving away a free short stack of pancakes as part of their National Pancake Day celebration. This year you can get a free short stack and in return, IHOP is asking guests to make a donation to the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The Children’s [...]
No idea is original, that’s what some might have you think. Though usually we like to rib phone manufacturers for suing one another over the design of a rectangular piece of glass that connects to a cellular signal, last week Gizmodo reported that the copycat fight spilled to housewares. Today, OXO responded to Quirky’s accusations of stiffing inventors with a long read [...]
I had drifted away from comics for awhile, busy mostly, but had begun buying a couple of relaunch titles, putting my toe back in the water so to speak. What really propelled me to return to the fold was the DC New 52 reboot. The promise of a beginning with top notch writers and artists [...]
If you’re one of the folks that supported Pebble’s Kickstarter campaign, you’ve been waiting for this bit of news for some time now. Today, Pebble has announced that the first run of Smartwatches are on their way to some customers. The compatible Android app is also going live in the Google Play Store by tomorrow [...]
One of the more daunting tasks we will ever do willingly in this life is to become a fan. To do so means our brains begin to absorb everything about the subject merely by being exposed to it. I say ‘daunting’ because if we were to look ahead at all we will know, we might [...]
Back in the day, Image comics was artist owned and famous for its stable of well-known illustrators, highly stylistic art, and, in some circles, for its lack of story development in a good percentage of their titles. 20 years later, I am happy to say that the art has diversified and the stories are there [...]