Author: Xaviar Xerexes

I helped create Comixpedia and ComixTalk. Currently working on finishing a lot of unfinished comics and novels.
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My Favorite: Movies: 1987

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1987 wasn’t a bad year.  I graduated from high school and some pretty memorable movies came out. The Untouchables is easily my favorite movie from that year – a stylish dynamic crime thriller with brilliant performances from Robert DeNiro, Sean Connery and yes, Kevin Costner.  This had to have been one of Andy Garcia’s first roles, right?  Everybody in the movie is quite good.  The staircase scene is classic — I now it’s a huge lift from the 1925 Russian film, Battleship Potemkin, but that doesn’t take anything away from the tension inspired by director Bryan DePalma’s take on it. [youtube …

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Guttersniping

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I read The Gutters — I have never closely followed the “comic book” industry though so sometimes the jokes and pokes escape me. The art is almost always nicely done though! Anyhow today’s jumped out at me — I have an ongoing interest in issues related to copyright, trademark, etc (even grouping all of that together as “intellectual property” is contentious to one side of the argument) so I really liked the artwork today and the concept Jim Zubkavich put together.  I’m not even sure exactly what point Jim is making since the “punchline” about torrenting is kind of submerged …

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Weird Memories of Weird Al

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As a kid and than a teenager I loved Weird Al songs and most of the time I felt largely embarrassed by my love of Weird Al songs. I still would probably be reticent to bring up all of my pop culture enthusiasms with everyone I know. I had these pockets of compartmentalization in my life even then – things I liked where I just knew a bunch of people I otherwise liked (or were trying hard to get to like me) would not “get it” or even worse think less of me (or at least that was my fear). …

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Donuts for Lunch? Sure why not

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It’s been a busy time at the x-household this weekend. Kids went rock climbing last night which went amazingly well until younger x girl bumped her chin on the wall at the last minute. She was fine but I hope it’s not the thing she remembers from the experience. Pancake breakfast this morning, sledding on the snow followed by the indoor soccer game (they won!). It’s hard to tire kids out – the little one may actually fall asleep early tonight. And then I noticed my rear left tire was low. Off to Costco to get it checked out. Very …

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Bookmark: Fables

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(Some earlier discussion of Fables in this post and this post) Fables: The Dark Ages feels like the final final to the big epic “war” storyline of the Fables comic books.  It’s a great tale, fantastic comic — anyone who enjoys playing with myth and meta-ing out on existing stories would love this stuff for sure (Like Jasper Fford? You’ll amost certainly like Fables). So mostly just a note to myself – I need to go hunt down a copy of The Great Fables Crossover to read next. February 2013 Update:  Just finished volume 17 of the Fables trade collections. …

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My Favorite: Movies: 1986

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1986 had a lot of movies in the middle.  It also had one heck of a bad movie I paid good money to see.  I wasn’t a Howard the Duck comic book fan but I definitely got caught up in the hype. That was a pretty awful movie. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgd46QiHz4I?rel=0] I was a big fan of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.  It was the capstone of the first phase of John Hughes’ career – which makes sense as it’s about leaving highschool behind (and of course, goofing off) where all of his previous movies had taken place.  But I will give …

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An Old Altbrand Logo

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Hey! The forum logo I drew for the resurrected ALTBRAND forums circa 2004.  I was not even in the top half of artistic talent associated with the all too brief Altbrand, er, brand.  But I ran the web stuff which sometimes let me preemptively slip in some of my work. What’s a forum you ask?! Oh boy, that’s a relic of the days of Internet yore.  Gather around the digital hearth here and let Grandpa X tell you young ‘uns a tall tale of wrangling Ikon Boards.