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Many people love to take naps. My wife, daughter and mother all excel at the practice. That’s great for them. I’m not a huge fan of naps because usually, I’m never quite tired enough to drift off. And on that rare occasion when I *am* tired enough and fall asleep, whether it’s five minutes orContinue reading “Glorious, yet dopey”

What’s that ya say? You’re pleading, begging, grasping for the answer to the question, maybe the biggest, most important question that CAN be asked, considering the topic of this entry: “Rick, oh venerable one… what IS your favorite comic ever?” Finally, he asked me.  JLA/Avengers by Busiek and Perez. Four, 48 page issues. The epitomeContinue reading “Fantastic Friday: JLA/Avengers”

This shows you how important it is to NOT SKIM messages or emails. (In fact, you should all of this carefully). You’d think we’d all know how to read, access, understand and absorb emails but no. We don’t. If you run three sentences together to make a short paragraph, you’ve got 50/50 odds on someoneContinue reading “Risk Assessment/Reading Carefully”

Today is the day that Mickey & Maj: “Grounded” comes on on Comixology — (LINK HERE). So I’m proclaiming this MICKEY & MAJ DAY. I’m fairly sure this is official now. The mayor’s busy. To date, produced three stories for M&M. The first two were collected together by Action Lab comics and came out inContinue reading “Mickey & Maj Day!”

I’ve always had a problem with the fact that inIllinois, when voting in the primaries, you have to go straight Dem or Rep. This caused a problem for me one time years ago when I desperately wanted to get rid of a certain Democrat and vote for the Republican opposition but at the same time,Continue reading “Punching that Ticket”

(a very short story) As he and Penny finished cleaning up so they could rejoin the party, Jack surveyed his extended family spread across the back yard. Everyone seemed to be having fun, enjoying the sunshine, the long summer day and each other’s company. At one of the few  card tables set up for theContinue reading ““Staying Upstairs””

I’ve had a couple weeks to process the revelations of The Timeless Child. It’s a lot to unpack. If it’s real. The BBC has gotten so many complaints about the reveal, that they’ve issued another apology. This being the second time this year– first was regarding Can You Hear Me? Anyway… Before I get intoContinue reading “Amidst the settling dust…”

Finally, the last of my stories from camping week…. Mistakes were made. Things were said. Don, Mike, Jim, myself. We’d set up camp on Friday and we’d been doing this for a number of years by now, so you might say we were old pros who’d figured out the system. Yeah, you *might* think that. Continue reading “Eyes reflected everywhere in the Darkness”

A million years ago in the 1980’s.  It was a camping weekend.  There were three of us. Don, Pam and myself.  As was the tradition, the first night, we usually either went into the nearby college town of Whitewater Wisconsin to drink Sidewinders and play pool OR we’d sit around the campfire drinking copious amountsContinue reading “Could Be a Big Dog…”

Amongst our camping trips, there had been some rain here and there. Sometimes, it’s a light rain shower that relieves the heat, no worries.  Sometimes it’s bad in the middle of the night. There was at least one night where we got very little sleep because there was so much lightning and thunder along withContinue reading “Under The Tarp”