by Brian Garside | Mar 19, 2017 | Comics
Bernie Wrightson passed away on Saturday night after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 68 years old. He was best known as a comics illustrator who was instrumental in the horror comics of the 60’s and 70’s, and as the co-creator of the Swamp Thing...
by Brian Garside | Sep 7, 2016 | Comics
I’ve been going to Fan Expo Canada with Kaylin and Maks for the last three years. They’ve both reached the age where we can manage to do the entire show floor with a minimal amount of whining, and it’s fun. I decided about five years ago that I...
by Brian Garside | Mar 25, 2016 | Comics, Movies and TV
I went and saw Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice last night, before the movie Zack Snyder came on the screen to tell us that we were seeing the movie before anyone else, and to make sure we don’t spoil any of the secrets to others. This review will be as...
by Brian Garside | Jan 4, 2016 | Comics
I’ve been writing about my favourite comics every year for as long as I can remember, I’ve narrowed it down to five picks each year, it’s interesting how three of the five titles on this list were here on last year’s list – My Favourite...
by Brian Garside | Oct 20, 2015 | Comics
Rob passed away a year ago this past Saturday. He was my comics guy for the better part of a decade. He was the reason I travelled an hour in to his store every week for a year. It’s because of him that I became a comics guy. In a lot of ways, the guy who called...
by Brian Garside | Jan 3, 2015 | Comics
I like putting together a few year in review lists that remind me what I enjoyed in a year. Comics are a big passion of mine, big enough that I take the kids to two or three conventions every year, and always make plans to go to one of the bigger ones (like C2E2,...