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I did pretty well in 2009 with 28 books and 93 graphic novels.
Best book of the year was hands down Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, other worthy mentions include Death Star, the Horus Heresy, the Star Wars Legacy series and The Dip by Seth Godin.
On the graphic novel front, Avengers: The Initiative is a great book, [...]

So Kinokuniya is having another 20% members-only sale, and that means money flies out of my wallet like there’s no tomorrow because I’ve stopped buying comics in single issue format, and buy the collected editions (graphic novels) instead. Here’s a quick overview of four of the nine graphic novels (GNs) I bought tonight:
Fallen Angel vol.4 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

You ever find yourself in a situation where you’re caught up in wanting to keep up with something, that you get overwhelmed? In my attempt to consume as much media as possible, I have:

Easily 20 seasons of shows (that’s 400 hours of TV) to watch.
60 books unread
40 graphic novels unread
Easily 500 feeds a day and [...]