Sock Grief: When Your Number’s Up
By Crime HQ
June 14, 2013Futile self-recrimination via the amazing Nathan Bulmer's art blog, Eat More Bikes.
Futile self-recrimination via the amazing Nathan Bulmer's art blog, Eat More Bikes.
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!” I know more of the Shadow than I know about the Shadow. I know the familiar catchphrase. I know he was a radio hero created in the 1930s and the star of pulp magazines. I know he was an influence on Batman’s…
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Language is a powerful weapon. Use just one wrong word and… WHAM! The force of a thousand crime-fighting avengers comes crashing down on you. According to a recent story in the New York Daily News, that’s what happened to comic book creator Ray Felix two years ago. See, in 2011 Ray Felix created a comic…
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The Private Eye is an experiment. From a creative standpoint, the setting is daring, a strange new future in which all technologies have advanced except for communication and images. From a distribution standpoint, it’s unprecedented. Writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Marcos Martin placed the 32-page Issue 1 of The Private Eye up at their…
Be warned! If you're using social media platform Snapchat, because the photos you send with it are promised to “self-destruct” after a time limit you specify, know that your embarrassing selfies are not safe! According to this Forbes article by Kashmir Hill, an IT forensics firm pulled dozens of supposed-to-be deleted photos from phones. It…
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Okay, I think that got all the rhyming out of my system, maybe. Okay, yeah, I’m done. Though, I did leave out the addition of a healthy sprinkling of Ghostbusters, but that doesn’t rhyme, does it? Anyway, above is the trailer for R.I.P.D. starring Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon, and Mary Louise Parker. If…