In an article for the New York Review of Books, critic Daniel Mendelsohn writes about watching the first plane hit the World Trace Center on 9/11:
 
I flipped the phone shut, looked up, and a dark flash of something darted into the building that loomed directly before me, which was the north tower of the World [...]

I admit that part of the fun of having this site powered by Wordpress is the ability to change themes on the fly. As much as I liked the old theme, I wanted something a bit more dramatic, and Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s XMark theme seems to take the cake. I need to edit the header and [...]

Check out the Batman villain masks in this ultra-swinging Gnarls Barkley song.
(Regular posting resumes soon, I promise.)

(from a comment I made on Newsarama):
For the past two months, I’ve been suffering from an unknown malady in my spine, hip, and thigh that has made it painful for me to walk or lay in bed. The condition has gotten so bad that I now have to work from home 5 days a week. [...]

(Warning: this article is written under the influence of Vicodin. I see the orthopedist on Friday for the worsening problems in my back and leg. I’m cranky.)
The New York Comic Con is trying very hard to do a better job than last year’s debacle, where they accidentally oversold the show to the public and the [...]

Christopher Butcher has the best take on the full-frontal Spider-Man in this week’s Spider-Man: Reign #1 issue. (I’m still waiting for the obligatory "Spider-Nuts" theme song parody.)
The big issue for Marvel isn’t the dangly bits shown in the picture. It’s the lack of quality control at the House of Ideas. How many errors has Marvel [...]

Unlike those of you who make the weekly trek to your friendly neighborhood comics store each Wednesday, I get my comics once a month from MailOrderComics.com. Once a month, I get a box or two (or, um, three) full of graphic novels and comics, all wrapped lovingly in cardboard and styrofoam peanuts. I dive in, [...]

I’ve installed the Share This! plugin created by WordPress guru Alex King. If you like one of my posts, you can email it to someone, add it to your Google bookmarks, Digg it, and a whole bunch of other options.
For me, this blog isn’t supposed to be a monologue. It’s a conversation. I’m hoping that [...]

Tom Spurgeon caught this story today. I’ve been reading Fox Trot since I was an undergrad at the U of Delaware, and have always loved the geek-friendly strip. I’ll miss the daily strips, but every artist should know when it’s time to close up, and I wish Bill Amend well with his new projects.
We’re losing [...]

It turns out that my back condition is degenerative disc disease. I go for an MRI soon to determine the extent of the injury. Bleh.(Thanks to Glyph Jockey for the Nancy cartoon. Click through for the whole joke. Thanks to Boing Boing for pointing it out.)