Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir [Penguin Audio, 2018]

Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir by H. Jon Benjamin First off, let me be clear that I’m not a huge reader of autobigraphies – I mean I’ve read a few like Nelson Mandela and Jim Morrison and the like, but there have been at most, a handful over my years as a reader….

Hinglish – Humorous losses in translation!

So, I was interviewed recently by IndianComicsFandom and they very kindly gave me a lot of space to talk about things. It was a lot of fun and the fact that it was done in Hindi instead of English was a change of pace for sure! I’ll admit, that there was some google translate involved…

Deleted Scenes from Shakespeare (Part 1?)

Are you perchance a member of Goodreads? If you are, then like me you’ll probably have seen their current ongoing Shakespeare celebration – because the 23rd of this month is the 400th anniversary of the Bards death. SO! In honour of said occassion, they were running a bunch of “Deleted Scenes” from Shakespeare – some…

5 Most Under-Rated TV Shows right now!

Greetings fellow TV-fiends! I’ve been enjoying a lot of the really good and entertaining television out there in the past year or so, as my prior posts about TV shows might attest. But apart from the big, well known names and shows that have either been acclaimed like mad, highly awarded or practically become a…

REVIEW: A&A #1 (VALIANT COMICS, 2016)

A&A #1 (VALIANT COMICS) STORY : Rafer Roberts ART : David Lafuente (pencils), Ryan Winn (inks) and Brian Reber (colours) After a successful first ongoing series and then a double-duo team-up with Quantum & Woody in the miniseries The Delinquents, it’s time for the much anticipated return of Archer and Armstrong – the unbeatable (mostly)…

New TV Shows 2015 In Review (Part 1)

There has been a deluge of new shows – many hotly anticipated and heavily promoted and a few flying below radar. So I decided to take advantage of that and do some reviewing of what I’ve seen thus far, only to find there were a LOT of them, thus the splitting of the post into…