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Bookmark: Cory Doctorow

by Xaviar XerexesFebruary 16, 2013

I met Cory Doctorow once at a conference called Supernova in Washington DC back in the very early part of the ‘naughts. It was actually about technology policy which is the fascinating thing about Cory Doctorow, talented and successful writer; he’s also quite an effective public advocate for a number of progressive 21st Century causes, including privacy and copyright reform. He’s had an impressive public life. It’s the books though where he has been able to wrap his ideas around and through interesting narrative; probably still the best way to get through to majority of the world. I’ve read everything …

Bookmark: Locke & Key

by Xaviar XerexesFebruary 8, 2013

I’m reading “Clockworks” the 5th collection of Locke & Key, the incredibly high concept horror comic series from Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. A fun story but more importantly a fun gimmick that centers around the Locke family home (appropriately called “Keyhouse”) where there exist a growing number of magical keys that do strange, wonderful but weird and downright creepy things when inserted into the right lock. Rodriguez’s art is almost always fantastic and adds a lot to the suspense. Hill has a big imagination but it wouldn’t pack half the punch without the visuals. And now just as with …

Bookmark: Arrested Development

by Xaviar XerexesFebruary 6, 2013

It’s still a bookmark if you’re watching episodes of a teevee show, right? I never watched Arrested Development but hey, soooo much hype over the new fourth season on Netflix and the first three seasons are free on Amazon Prime. So I just finished the first season of the show. Very funny; I can’t remember what else was on in the early Oughts to compare it too. I suppose that’s part of why it’s fans loved it so much. FEB 28 2013 UPDATE: I watched the 2nd season and and now I’m onto the shortened third season. It’s amazing how …

Bookmark: Fables

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 26, 2013

(Some earlier discussion of Fables in this post and this post) Fables: The Dark Ages feels like the final final to the big epic “war” storyline of the Fables comic books. It’s a great tale, fantastic comic — anyone who enjoys playing with myth and meta-ing out on existing stories would love this stuff for sure (Like Jasper Fford? You’ll amost certainly like Fables). So mostly just a note to myself – I need to go hunt down a copy of The Great Fables Crossover to read next. February 2013 Update: Just finished volume 17 of the Fables trade collections. …

Bookmark: Sin Titulo

by Xaviar XerexesJune 15, 2012March 8, 2020

Sin Titulo by Cameron Stewart is a fever dream of a webcomic. It’s a perfectly disturbing downward spiral for the main character, Alex, who finds a photograph of his recently deceased grandfather with a young woman he doesn’t’ recognize. Alex doesn’t realize it at first, but in looking for this woman he pulls at a thread that leads to unraveling his entire life. Stewart is updating it again after a hiatus and it has entered a new phase of the story. The main character has seemingly jumped over to an alternate world that he had been having recurring flashes of …

The Abominable Charles Christopher

by Xaviar XerexesJune 13, 2012

I’ve trying out Comic Rocket, a webcomic tracking and reading site, and the first comic I loaded up was The Abominable Charles Christopher, a fantastic webcomic I’ve read at various points but haven’t caught up on most of this year. I decided to read it over from the start of the archives and it was well worth it. It’s a funny webcomic alright but in it’s own way, a little weird. Like a family-friendly Twin Peaks. Strange things are happening in the woods of the man-beast Charles Christopher. There are all kinds of threads going that creator Karl Kerschl has …