The Book of the Month for March 2010 is none other than Mini Marvels Ultimate Collection (Marvel) written & drawn by Chris Giarrusso

A good laugh for readers of all ages!

Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am! Pick Of The Week goes to Matt Fraction & Salvador Larroca for Invincible Iron Man #24 (Marvel). Fast Five picks include DEMO 2 #2 (Vertigo), Amazing Spider-Man #623 (Marvel), Green Hornet #1 (Dynamite), Ultimate Avengers #5 (Marvel), and The Sword #22 (Image).

Good batch of comics, good lookin' covers, what's not to love this week?

The prequel to the D&D campaign ended the Friday before last. Hopefully, the players and I will be able to begin the main story, but that wouldn’t happen until April at the soonest.

You can download the session review (PDF). I also went and compiled all of the released materials I’ve made so far into one nicely organized, bookmarked file (also PDF).

Also, as a little web-only goody, you can see the character sheets of the enemy hero party that was tracked down and murdered during the prequel. They’re just regular HTML, so they’ll load in your browser like normal web sites.

1. Gargash the Barbarian
2. Telon the Rogue
3. Elaine the Sorceress

You may now resume your regularly scheduled Friday nights—for now!

Holy guacamole what a big week for comics! Pick Of The Week goes to Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres for Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island #1 (Avatar). Fast Five picks include The Walking Dead #70 (Image), Blackest Night #7 (DC), Irredeemable #11 (BOOM! Studios), Black Lantern Green Arrow #30 (DC), and Northlanders #25 (Vertigo).

It's 11:11 am. Do you know where your children are?

Apparently, people think I’m cold and emotionless like a robot. It’s not true, and I don’t really like being thought of that way. I don’t wear my feelings on my sleeve or share my problems easily, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have them. So here’s something to give everybody a glimpse of my guarded side so that they know it’s there and perhaps understand me a little bit better.

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Instructions: Find two or more quotes by other people that together say something that you’d have a hard time saying yourself. Post them with these instructions and just leave it at that. Plain text is good, and if you link to images from sites like and-i-quote.tumblr.com and postsecret.blogspot.com then you should probably also post the plain text and the url.

1. From http://mackyyy.tumblr.com/post/399430272

“Everyday,
I fight back the urge to text you or call you,
teling myself that
if you wanted to talk to me,
you would.”

2. From http://babblecrossing.tumblr.com/post/392767283/rainingdogsandfish-inspyrred-ichliebe

funny how sometimes
you’re missing somebody,
but when that somebody shows up.
you do NOTHING.