Alice In Leatherland [5 issue mini, Black Mask Studios, 2022]

Alice in Leatherland by Iolanda Zanfardino (Writer), Elisa Romboli (Illustrator) A short, fun, light-hearted and mostly enjoyable story told in an intimate fashion. For fans/seekers of LGBTQIA+ stories, this is a gender-shifted romantic comedy comic that tells a somewhat familiar tale with a more modern bent. THE STORY: Our protagonist, Alice, is a small-town girl who…

“Insulting with style” (Lessons by Captain Archibald Haddock)

Hello folks! I love this post I made from waaaay back in 2012 and so I’m re-publishing it just for fun! Something funny and educational for you all – I was bobbing around the trash-littered information superhighway of wonder that we call the internet (or interwebs, whichever you prefer) and came across this site dedicated…

Star Trek by Michael Bay?

I had recently seen the trailer for the new Star Trek movie, Star Trek: Beyond – You can see it here if you so choose: I was unsure about how to react to it – you should know that after a modestly positive reaction to the first movie in the reboot, I was quite disappointed…

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…

God of Gravity

So… I had a strangely hilarious little exchange with someone over at Google+ (yes, I’m one of those rare animals that actually uses it!) and it made me chuckle aplenty and even made me think of something I’d not really considered before about “gravity”, the think we take so for granted. …or I could just…