Thinking about an ending brings to mind a beginning, which means there are spoilers ahead for… You sure know how to fill up a girl’s lungs! This will be the last Spotlight Sunday post, as I have decided to bring this feature to a close. That does not mean, however, […]
“I’m not even supposed to be here today!” – Dante, Clerks (And also my inner twentysomething who didn’t figure on making it to 30, let alone 50.) As of today, I’ve been hanging around for half a century, and while many parts of those five decades have been rough going, […]
Given that it got even less traffic than the other sites on here, and that it did even less to serve its intended purpose, I decided to do some spring cleaning and deleted The Spinner Rack site. And because I’m me, I temporarily took everything down in the process. Oops! […]
I know that in this timeless limbo in which we find ourselves people sometimes need a reminder of what day it is, so I’ll take this opportunity to point out that it’s Saturday. On this Saturday, I thought I would also provide something else that people need: good news! First […]
As part of the ongoing effort to help keep comic shops going through this period of upheaval, comics creators are raising funds by auctioning original work via the #Creators4Comics hashtag on Twitter. In addition to original art, creators are auctioning off signed comics, and others are auctioning off…experiences. DC Comics […]
In what we now know as “The Before Times,” today would have been the best day of the week, AKA New Comic Book Day. However, as noted last week, one of the many challenges we’re facing in the midst of this global pandemic – and, admittedly, one of the more […]
Today is New Comic Book Day, which is normally a happy occasion for those of who eagerly rush to our local comic shop (LCS) to pick up the latest four-color adventures. But this New Comic Book Day is unlike any other, in that it’s going to be the last one […]
Over the weekend news broke that DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio is no longer with the company. As of this writing, details are scarce, and there has been no official announcement of any kind. Naturally, this has led to rampant speculation as to why and what it means for the […]
Last time I talked about how this whole thing got started and how ever since that start things have been stalled at the gate. I also got into some of the reasons why I think that’s the case, why there has been no significant growth of the platform or movement […]
Six years ago, finding myself in a set of circumstances – both personal and professional – that could be viewed as either a challenge or an opportunity, I decided to pursue thinking of it all as the latter, and began weighing my options. It was that options-weighing that ultimately led […]