Paul Matthew Carr

This post was originally published on February 25, 2015  If you’re reading this and you are wondering who Jack Kirby is you obviously don’t read comics. Kirby is one of the most influential artists and creators in the genre, ever. [...]

STORY BY: R.L. Stine ART BY: Christopher Mitten and German Peralta COLORS BY: Rachelle Rosenberg LETTERS BY: VC’s Travis Lanham COVER BY: Mike Deodato Jr. and Tyler Crook In the previous review of issue #1 I wrote about how I didn’t really enjoy how Stein [...]

Editor’s Note: I originality wrote this back in 2015 I thought it could use a re-post.   My great-great-grandfather came here from Ireland. He did so to escape famine, civil war and oppression. He left everything he knew – family, [...]

2016 was not a good year. I could mention the abundance of celebrity deaths or the uncivil election or the discouraging decisions in Europe as the reasons for the awfulness of the year. Or on a smaller scale there were [...]

“The most unfettered imagination belongs to young people, and they don’t walk through life; they fly” – Rod Serling in 1963. Blank on Blank is a series of short animations featuring snippets of conversation and interviews of various celebrities and [...]

The philosophy of motivation. Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze‘s second issue of Black Panther builds directly off the world-building setup of the first. Now that the players have been identified and the political chessboard set, it is time to go a [...]

Tell me if you’ve heard this before: These kids today are spoiled and lazy. The expect everything to be handed to them on a platter. They don’t know the value of a dollar, and they don’t want to work hard. [...]

Last night our dog Pippin died. He was a beagle so that means he was stubborn and strong-willed and barked for no discernible reason. It also means that he was loving and affectionate and adorable as all get out. Pippin [...]

So the big reveal from last week’s Captain America: Steve Rogers first issue is that Captain America – Sentinel of Liberty and all around nice guy – is actually a Nazi. Okay, not a Nazi exactly – a Hydra sleeper [...]

Sometimes men choose hiatus, other times hiatus is thrust upon them. And sometimes, like what happened here, its a bit of both. I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog (here for instance) that I find it difficult to write [...]