Did you ever notice that the symptoms and even some of the treatments for the Swine Flu outbreak are a lot like if you have a really bad hang-over?  We’ve prepared this simple chart to keep you from jumping to conclusions if you were over-indulging the night before:
Symptoms

Swine Flu

Bad Hang-Over

Fever
Sweating a [...]

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All I wanted to do was buy a pint of ice cream, but nothing’s ever as easy as it should be, is it?
In the grocery store, I turned the corner of an aisle to where the ice cream was.  There was already a woman planted squarely in front of the freezer case [...]

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I’ve made some comments over the last month or two about feeling sorry for anyone planning to read Secret Invasion in trade paperback (tpb) format.  The actual mini-series was released as a solo tpb and when released on a weekly basis, the tie-ins (especially the Avengers titles) would unfold as flashbacks, [...]

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As you may know, The New York Times has started a best seller list for “Graphic Books,” which you and I would probably call either graphic novels or comics.  A lot of people have been trying to figure out what this list really is and whether it’s valid.  The exact [...]

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In Chicago, people love to dine outdoors.  Maybe this is because the weather is awful for at least half the year, maybe there’s another reason, but they’re serious about.  Indeed, they can be downright pretentious about it.  Chicagoans like to call it “dining alfresco,” like they’re too good to simply be sitting outside.  Please note [...]

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This is the final installment of a look at the world of print comics in a world where the direct market implodes.  Previous installments were the actual “Doomsday Scenario” and a look at formats that print comics might adopt online.  This installment will look at graphic novels as more of an independent product than just [...]

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Last week, we looked at a possible doomsday scenario with a perfect storm of a recession, price hikes, consumer antipathy towards the Big 2, and digital distribution cause a drastic shrinkage in the direct market and the number of books distributed as printed monthly magazines (*cough* Seattle Post-Intelligencer *cough*).
The first thing we [...]

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