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A blog is supposed to be about me. I realise I share a lot about my passions: books, music, entertainment and comic books/graphic novels, but perhaps not a whole lot about myself. So here’s my first blog post about it.
I consider myself very much a kid of the ’80s and the ’90s. Not just because [...]

My Amazon Package Has Arrived! from Daryl Tay on Vimeo.

Since I posted up details about the party, I’ve gotten numerous requests for the yearly wishlist to go up. So here comes the shameless time of the year, although when you think about it it’s not that shameless. I just have enough mugs and photo frames accumulated from previous year’s birthdays. So something actually useful [...]

I picked these up almost a week ago and they’re part of the final (for now) wave of Minimates from DC Comics that will be released. I picked up the full set (4 sets of 2 figures each), so here they are:

So on the left we have Salaak of the Green Lantern Corps and on [...]

As far as I know it’s not embeddable, but you can catch it over at Comic Book Resources.
Couple of things I noticed:

No Jean Grey (that’s a first)
Crazy amount of mutant guest stars (Wolfsbane, Domino, Dust, Gambit, Multiple Man, Pyro, Maverick, Mojo)
Iceman’s costume is sleeveless (?!), but I’m just glad he’s in the [...]

If my Dark Tower graphic novel post hasn’t indicated already, I’m a huge comic book/graphic novel fan and have been collecting them for the last 11 years.
I know the perception is that comics are expensive (they are), so here’s a solution: Today is Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) and that means certain comics are….. free! [...]

“The man in black fled across the desert…. and the gunslinger followed”
With these words I first entered the first book of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger. I picked it up last year partially because I knew Marvel was doing a graphic novel and partially because apparently a lot of the Lost mythology is [...]

It’s no secret I’m a crazy fan of Twitter (@uniquefrequency) and I’m also a huge comic book fan. So I was extremely amused to chance upon this post:What Would Batman Twitter this afternoon, in response to the original question posted by Great White Snark.
So here are my 3 contributions:

“JLA Watchtower duty again”
“@Boywonder why are you [...]