Author: Xaviar Xerexes

I helped create Comixpedia and ComixTalk. Currently working on finishing a lot of unfinished comics and novels.
Blog / Comics

The Abominable Charles Christopher

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I’ve trying out Comic Rocket, a webcomic tracking and reading site, and the first comic I loaded up was The Abominable Charles Christopher, a fantastic webcomic I’ve read at various points but haven’t caught up on most of this year.  I decided to read it over from the start of the archives and it was well worth it. It’s a funny webcomic alright but in it’s own way, a little weird.  Like a family-friendly Twin Peaks.  Strange things are happening in the woods of the man-beast Charles Christopher.  There are all kinds of threads going that creator Karl Kerschl has …

Blog / Games / Words

Kickstart My Art: Clang

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Neal Stephenson is a geek legend at this point. I don’t think his first novel Snow Crash would have existed without William Gibson’s early novels coming first, but it’s just speculation on my part unless I get a chance to talk to either author.  Don’t get me wrong, I love Neal’s books and unlike some, I’ve liked each new one better then the last.  What some see as a weakness — stuffing a tremendous amount of knowledge on the subjects of his books — well, I tend to love that part of his books. His most recent project, The Mongoliad, came …

Culture / Games

Player One – Go!

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Ready Player One is a good book that I read on the recommendation of the Boing Boing review.  Author Ernest Cline created a really fun story within which he could mine Eighties nostalgia.  Ultimately the characters were a little too thin for me to fully invest in the book but I still think it was one of the better science fiction style novels I’ve read recently. This month the paperback for it came out.  Cline has done a really wonderful thing to promote the book — he’s created an alternative reality game (otherwise called an ARG) that mimics the contest …

Blog / Comics / Culture

We Have A Hulkster

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I went back to check out Mr. Hipp, the fairly impressive art and comics blog, which features a lot of comics to pop culture mashup ideas.  It’s a mainstream version of T.S. Elliott’s The Wasteland, without all of the footnotes.  Take elements, memes, from different sources and cross-pollinating them is one of the major schools of art these days. This might be my current favorite one from Dan Hipp’s blog right now: But it’s a current favorite.  It takes a well-known line from the very current Avengers movie and a very Eighties wrestling star to create the new punchline.  While I …