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MacGuffin Graphic Novel Bookshop

If you’re ever in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area of Virginia, do yourself a favor and visit MacGuffin, The Graphic Novel Bookshop. I’d been in nearby Norfolk, visiting my Mom for Christmas, but ventured out to Newport News on Christmas Eve to seek out this shop that’d I’d seen mentioned on ComicsReporter (or Journalista, I can’t …

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Merry Christmas!

Yeah, that’s right: “Merry Christmas!” Not “Happy Holidays” or any of that other crap. Apparently there’s a “war on Christmas” happening at the moment—and since that makes us white male heterosexual Protestant-types an oppressed minority, I’m gonna start acting like it. STICKIN’ IT TO THE MAN!

Most Dangerous Toys Ever

Features : Radar Online Just in time for Christmas, this hilarious list of the most dangerous toys ever.  My personal favorite: The South did rise again, at least during playtime for the owners of the Johnny Reb, a 30-inch “authentic civil war” cannon draped in the confederate flag. The Reb fired hard, plastic cannonballs with …

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ComicSpace.com

ComicSpace – benzilla’s Space I’m currently the only person in the world who doesn’t have a MySpace page.  I’ve been the last of the holdouts with this whole “social networking” deal, but I’m giving this new comics-specific site a try…. So visit my page and friend me up!

Lone and Level Sands Readers Guide

Archaia Studios Press has posted some study guides to A. David Lewis and m p Mann’s Lone and Level Sands here.  I wrote the introduction to the book and contributed to the advanced study guide (direct link).  This is notable not just for its educational value, but also because it’s the first time (in print …

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