By: John C. Mayberry I was excited to see I would be reading another in Ahoy Comic’s stellar collection of comics and laughed so hard I think I just destroyed my lungs. Really, my sides still hurt, but in the best possible way. Seeing Poe’s name attached to it,…
By: John C. Mayberry Now I’ll be honest, in my younger and dumber years I wasn’t much for music that had been around longer than I’ve been alive. But now that I’m older, and although not too much wiser, I recognize what a fool I’ve been to pass up…
By: John C. Mayberry In any story I’ve read in, well, ever, the main thing that’s always kept me engaged was seeing what happens next, what the characters go through, what they experience. In reading issue two of Snelson: Comedy Is Dying, you get both a great continuation of…
By: John C. Mayberry The indy genre of comics is full of some pretty damn good reads, unique in the stories they tell and how they’re presented in both dialogue and artwork. Although my love of comics began with the superhero genre, it’s refreshing to see creators that take…
Red Room – Fantagraphics Review By: John C. Mayberry And now boys and girls, for my first foray into the realm of the splatterpunk genre, I thought I’d give Red Room #1 a good read, dip my toes into the water as it were. Very, very red water…
By: John C. Mayberry Ahhhh, the point-and-click games. Normally an acquired taste for much of the gaming community, you are inevitably bound to come across some games that could be considered the golden examples of the genre. Lately I’ve had the privilege of playing through one such title on…
By: John C. Mayberry Out the many works of fiction I’ve read in my lifetime, I have to admit I’ve always had an affinity for tales connecting to the supernatural. For me there has always been a certain allure to the facets of existence that just cannot be explained…
By: John C. Mayberry One thing that can make a work of fiction great is if it has some form of real-life connection. A great source for this would be any work that’s set during the time of a real historic event, as writers and artists are given the…
By: John C. Mayberry Even as graphics and gameplay are going to continue to evolve as time presses forward, many a gaming nerd, of which I proudly count myself as too, will always have an affinity for one of the best damn generations of games we’re lucky to have…
By: John C. Mayberry Once again, I’ve delved deeper into a world conquered by a darkness that literally mutates all it touches, and there isn’t any place I’d rather be than there, taking it all in. Minus what I’m sure is a violent mutation, of course. The Image Comics…