December, 2006: As the year comes to a close so do the respective brains of the entire Atlanta comics community. Little Torak discovers music, Nigh Perfect discovers LSD, apparently, and all of us discover the delights of neighborhood swingers! Hello Chums! It has been a strange week during which my Nigh Perfect wife’s episodes of…
March 16th, 2009: It was a busy week, as you will soon see. And I’m sure it did my long-suffering Nigh Perfect wife the world of good to learn that while she labored through the miracle of childbirth, I saw this as a great opportunity to make fun of the whole thing. Wotcher, Chums! Well,…
2010: I blame myself. So does Nigh Perfect. It’s what keeps our marriage intact. Hello Chums, I was chatting to my dear old Mum in Britain the other day, trying to explain what it is I actually do for a living. Describing my various roles on the CybeRacers production induced the same kind of reaction…
Curioddity by Paul Jenkins is a quirky, fast-paced debut novel that is as peculiar as it is fun to read (Available August 30, 2016). Wil felt so desperately, desperately tired. …He had been metaphorically shot at, spat on, shut in, and spat out since the moment he'd left for work, and the thought of enduring any more…
Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, it was hard to narrow it down to just 5! Thankfully, the wait is over for Louise Penny's A…
June, 2006: Parenthood and work were taking their toll. People moaned that my column was getting late. I vowed to arbitrarily murder the next person who knocked on my door. That made me feel better. And my brief encounter with the world of Korean hairstylists also did me the world of good. Hello, Chums! I…
Curioddity by Paul Jenkins is a quirky, fast-paced debut novel that is as peculiar as it is fun to read (Available August 30, 2016). Will Morgan is a creature of habit―a low-budget insurance detective who walks to and from work with the flow of one-way traffic, and for whom imagination is a thing of the distant past.…
What do you do when the boss at your new job is sort of a weirdo—charming but peculiar for sure? I create a cocktail based off his name, drink a couple, and hope he un-looks the other way! So, get a little strange with this week's Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a…
Hello, Chums. When I was little chap, no more than four or five, my Mum would often park me in front of the radio. There, I would listen to a classic British children’s program appropriately titled, Listen with Mother, while Mom wandered off to the bottom of the garden to smoke weed. The one thing…
Welcome to the freshly revived Flogging A Dead Horse – a once-beloved series of articles that has appeared on no less than three other websites, all of which are now out of business. Given that you literate types are a finer class of audience, and the aforementioned websites were of the comic book and pop…
