Author Archives: W. Blaine Dowler

As you may be able to tell, my formal training is not as a writer. My degrees are in physics and education. In my day job, I work in supplemental education, which is why my productivity is lowest when report card season hits.

Weekly Comic Discussion

There’s a whole lot shipping out this
week
, although American markets won’t get things
until tomorrow thanks to the July 4 weekend.
(They’ll ship today in Canada, but I doubt I can get
away from work while the comic shop I buy from is
open today.) Items worth noting this week include
Exiles #49, Fantastic Four #515,
Supreme Power #11, and Ultimate
Spider-Man
#62. These are the single issues I’m
picking up, while other available single issues
include Powerless #1 and Guardians
#1. Trade paperbacks include Marvel Age
Fantastic Four Vol. 1
and Marvel Age
Spider-Man Vol. 2
from Marvel, and Green
Lantern / Green Arrow Vol. 2
from DC. There’s a
considerable amount of other interesting materials
from other companies, too. It’s a good week for
comics.

10 Disc Matrix DVD set

is writes, According to Digital Spy The Matrix trilogy will be release in time for Christmas with ten discs. This may just be the all-encompassing set I’ve been looking for. The set will include the first two movies, movie 3 extended edition with an extra 55 minutes of footage, the Animatrix, and many discs full of special features… Wow. If I felt the sequels were worth owning, I’d be picking this up.

Website migrations

Since my University of Alberta web space can vanish
at any moment, I needed a new home for my stuff.
Dave kindly set me up with some Bureau 42 space, so
now my list of upcoming reviews can be found here,
my list of all 42 point reviews ever posted to Bureau
42 can be found here,
and my web listings of my DVD collection can be found
here.
Review requests are still accepted via [email protected].

Chuck Austen leaves Marvel

Details are still sketchy, but the writer of such
Marvel comics as this little
gem
won’t be at Marvel for long. His last issue
for the forseeable future ships this fall. His
current assignment is on the adjectiveless
X-Men title. He’s also written for
Avengers, Exiles, Uncanny
X-Men
, Ultimate X-Men, War
Machine
, and probably a few others I don’t
recall at the moment.

Free Comic Day Tomorrow

Many comic book shops are participating in Free Comic Book Day tomorrow. It’s simple; show up, and get free comics. Note that the comics are free to customers, but not to retailers. Knowing that, I tend to feel obligated to buy something from them while I’m there to help recoup the costs.