Last Sunday's beautiful afternoon saw the Lake Erie Crushers, Avon's Frontier League Baseball Club, bring their four-game win streak into Sprenger Stadium to take on the Normal Cornbelters. To celebrate, the Crushers management did what any business with fortitude and class would do if they thought about actually doing something fun and interesting. They scheduled a Superhero … [Read more...]
10 Awesome Things – Wonder Woman Edition!
It's Drudgler's 10 Awesome Things - Wonder Woman Edition! This is the first of a series of 10 Awesome Things posts and it's entirely appropriate that it's about My Weird Fantasy, an Amazon Princess. I barely remember the first time I read a comic book. I must have been about 6 or 7 and I think it was a Sad Sack comic. I also can't remember the first time I fell in love, … [Read more...]
What’s the Score, Episode 003: Thor
The original movie score for Marvel’s 2011 blockbuster, Thor, was composed by Patrick Doyle. This is the first soundtrack of Doyle’s that I have purchased (it was only $2.50!), and while I have listened to parts of his Rise of the Planet of the Apes score, I am not too familiar with his musical style. He has also composed the original scores for Harry Potter and the Goblet of … [Read more...]
Advice to Avoid Divorce: The Gift-Giving Edition
It all made sense. Well, it made sense when I discovered that WETA Workshop, the company that designed and manufactured many of the props for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, announced the release of several statues from the movies. I’d already accumulated a hefty collection of comic book statues that I proudly exhibited in two glass IKEA display cases, … [Read more...]
Off the Wall, Episode #002: Sociopaths, Detective Animals, and Herb Trimpe
Item of interest #1: Savage Things, #1 Like many collectors, the amount of comics I buy often ebbs and flows on foolish tides, or tides of necessity, or tides of convenience or inconvenience. When my kids were little and most of my so-called disposable income went towards pesky items like formula and diapers and I'd find myself cutting back to one or two titles a … [Read more...]