She stretched her hands above her head and cat smiled as the warm sun beat down upon her. The beads of sweat tickled her stomach as they slid down and added to the shallow pool forming in her navel. She squeezed her eyes shut and focused on the rainbows of color that danced through the … More Everyone Deserves Sunshine
He sat in in the middle of his room on the only chair he owned. The lights were off. The second hand of the clock on the wall ticked away the moments. He breached in and out at a rhythm out of sync with the clock. Ghosts of outside light flickered on the wall. In … More The Agent
(I’ve been looking through computer files of other stories I haven’t shared and found this. It was a write-up for a Dungeons and Dragons character I played that was a royal librarian/assassin and I always liked this little tale. I even managed to steal a few lines from Shakespeare. 10 points if you can spot … More Lucius Hemmet
The Scavengers Darkness brought scavengers of all kinds to the field of battle. The casteless had already been paid to take away the bodies, but as usual after battles there was more bodies than pay allowed so many were left to rot. The buzzards were the first to approach. Slow and large, they feasted on … More Sengoku Tales, 3
At the end of 2011 DC Comics, home of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and G’nort, ended its then current continuity of the DC Universe for a new reboot. This reboot, starting with 52 number 1 issues and often referred to as the New 52 or, my preferred, DCnU. While DC received an impressive sales spike … More The first misstep of DC’s New 52
The Story “All right, sit down now children. It’s story time.” The moon was high overhead, although it couldn’t be seen through the thick canopy of trees. This heat of the day had barely given way to the night’s sluggish humidity. Still there was a slight breeze the moved the air just enough to provide … More Sengoku Tales, 2
[A while ago I tried my hand at working on a tale of a fictionalized Japan’s war period. I wanted demons and magic and ninja and samurai and maybe some love and political intrigue thrown in. I was probably influenced by the first edition of Legend of the Five Rings tabletop RPG as much as, … More Sengoku Tales, 1
Why do I like comic books? It’s hard to say. I’m thirty-one years old and I’ve been reading comics as long as I can remember. In early elementary school I had a printer paper box that I kept them in. Days when I was home sick from school my parents would by whatever was on … More A Comic Book Rant in 361 Words
Director: Keishi Ōtomo 2012 The recently released (in Japan at least) Ruroni Kenshin has received a great amount of buzz. Based on a manga which later became an anime it would also count as a period piece of the Meiji Era. Historically, all you really need to know about that time is the samurai where faded … More Grumpy Bird Reviews: Ruroni Kenshin (るろうに剣心)
Part V Luigi grit his teeth and looked out the cab window. It had been three weeks. Three weeks of riding around in the green and red cab. Three weeks of watching and getting a feel for how Bowser Jr. handled his operation. Three weeks since that wife beating punk had almost turned Luigi into … More Hard Boiled Plumber, Part V
Deadly Troubadour 