The Return of stickman #1201

The Return of Stickman #1199 & #1200

The Return of Stickman #1197 & #1198

After viewing this stickman, my good friend John Schmelzer could not resist in sending me a follow-up guest strip. Thanks, John! And for those of you who were about to ask... No. J.P. Schmelzer is not J.P. Patches, that is a different clown all together.

The Comic Critic Reviews "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World"

The theater was packed at the midnight show I attended. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was extremely clever in its interpretation of this graphic novel. The visuals and references were so wonderfully over the top that I was thrilled all the way through. My movie afterglow took a long time to fade away, but my inner curmudgeon finally escaped from the closet that my enthusiasm had locked him in while I was enjoying the film; he finally had his say. Still, the part of me that still thinks playing Space Invaders is a hoot wants to give this film a ten.

Back Off! I have a carrot!

Back Off! I have a carrot!, originally uploaded by markmonlux.

I had no idea what to draw at this week's Tacoma Frost Park Chalk-Off, so I drew this.

The Return of Stickman #1196

I had a very hard time believing this news story when I read it. I'm glad she is getting counseling. I hope the boy is getting a little too.

The Comic Critic reviews Inception

For a couple of decades after Magnum P.I. was on TV, Tom Selleck was my cab driver whenever I took a taxi in my dreams. But after I told my friends, Mr. Selleck stopped appearing in my dreams. What does this have to do with Inception? I’ll get to that in a moment.

I loved all the terms Inception used when describing parts of dreams: projection, architecture, kicker, and layers. I also greatly enjoyed how the structure of the dialog was as important as the structure of the editing. While my eyes were busy gliding through a maze of visuals, my brain was also busy trying to decipher the dialog for clues as to what was true and what was a red herring in the storyline. Above all else, I love how this film doesn’t bother to explain itself and makes no apologies; you either follow it or you don’t. This film was very close to a ten for me, but if I told you what denominator made it a nine, I might never see Tom Selleck again.