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May the Fourth Be With You! Star Wars is something that everyone has a relationship with. Like literally millions of people, I grew up watching Star Wars with my dad and falling in love with the franchise. I’ve recently grown tired of the ‘Skywalker Saga’, and The Mandalorian was a great way to escape that corner of the story, but that show won’t be back for at least a few months. Audiences loved The Mandalorian because it was a grittier lens to view the cooler aspects of the Star W …

slapstick /ˈslapˌstik/ noun. comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events. Warren Ellis has always been one of my favorite writers. I’ve loved his work on The Authority, Ruins, and Transmetropolitan. I believe that Ellis and I think in a similar way not because of our creative process, but because of how many things he writes that I enjoy. I feel like when he writes we’re on the same frequency, and I’m on board for whatever he does. Or …

ORIGINAL SIN. EVERYONE HAS ONE.Jason Aaron is one of the most prolific writers at Marvel in this modern era. While Aaron isknown mainly for his work on Thor, he has written in every corner of the Marvel universe. Iknew Jason Aaron from his run on Ghost Rider with Tony Moore, where he remixed andupdated canon, as well as retconned several interesting points of Ghost Rider lore that havestood the test of time. While Aarons’ work on Thor is monumental and groundbreaking for thechanges he made to th …

It’s Time for a Sci-Fi Adventure! Who’s With Me?I recently picked up the Image Comics trade paperback for Descender written by Jeff Lemire with art by Dustin Nguyen. They say you shouldn’t judge a book my it’s cover however the moon and stars with a young boy sets up a galactic adventure in my mind that I needed to find out more about.The book begins with humans and robots living as one in a symbiotic relationship. The action starts immediately as we are met with massive robots called Harv …

Justice League Dark- Horror and Action's Favorite Kid In the last year I had taken a break from Batman. This seemed unprecedented for a guy like me; I had read Batman my whole life and loved it. This Batman fast was broken when James Tynion IV started his run on the Caped Crusader. I had heard his name and was familiar with titles he had worked on, but I had not read any of his work yet. This was a mistake I realized immediately after his first issue on Batman, and to rectify this I …