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Since coming to Kingston, Amazon has consistently impressed me, leading to increased purchases from them.
Whaddya think? Did I overdo it?
I think I may just miss Amazon most of all when I go home.

Bizarro, a twisted version of Superman, was one of the key characters featured in Superman: Last Son, and this volume continues his story. He kidnaps Pa Kent and flies to “Bizarro World” which is powered by a blue sun, that gives him strange new powers. Superman’s job, of course, is to save his dad. But [...]

I’m not a Superman fan by any means. I could never relate to Clark Kent, and he always seemed to “overpowered” for me. I mean, who can beat Superman?
That said, Geoff Johns has been writing Superman for the last couple of years, and he’s done some amazing things with The Flash, another superhero I could [...]

First of all, if you don’t know who Iron Fist is (and I don’t blame you), here’s his Wikipedia entry. The short story is, he’s a kung fu master with the ability to channel his chi into his fist.
I could tell you all about the background to the story of the Seven Capital Cities Of [...]

I’ve known about Bone for a long time, after all the series ran from 1991 to 2004, and I was reading comics for most of that period. Why I never picked it up, I don’t know. Especially considering it’s won 21 awards and was quoted as being “As sweeping as the “Lord of the Rings” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]