Post-Mortem on the Kickstarter for Dead Air #1-3: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Why
I think it’s important for those of us in the comic book community to be as diligent about detailing our setbacks as we are in trumpeting our successes. This is particularly important when approaching a complex, nuanced aspect of comic book cre
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If Sport Trucks Are Back, Here’s My Wishlist For Each OEM Revival
Lest you think that the revived Ram TRX is the only performance truck Stellantis has cooking, we’d like to point to the company’s just revealed n
Does the 2026 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid Make Sense as a Fuel Sipper?
How does the Crosstrek Hybrid’s fuel economy fare in real world driving? And how does its additional grunt translate when compared to more affordabl
The Crunch Is Secret Martha’s Vineyard Demo Deby History
Perhaps the most entertaining rebuke to the encroachment of soft-pedaled anti-auto legislation ever cooked up in a state legislature, The Crunch broug
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Post-Mortem on the Kickstarter for Dead Air #1-3: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Why
I think it’s important for those of us in the comic book community to be as diligent about detailing our setbacks as we are in trumpeting our successes. This is particularly important when approaching a complex, nuanced aspect of comic book creation like crowdfunding, where it’s not always clear from the outside how financing production
We Did It! Dead Air #3 Is Fully Funded on Kickstarter!
Greetings from Studio Alpaca HQ! We are speechless at the way you all rallied to help bring Dead Air over the finish line. In the final 24 hours of th
The Dead Air Kickstarter Campaign Needs Your Help
I hate starting off a post on a negative, but I can’t ignore reality: with less than 39 hours to go, the Dead Air Kickstarter campaign is st
It’s the Final Full Page Friday for Dead Air #1-3
Today is the final Friday in the Dead Air #1-3 campaign, and so here’s one last Full Page Friday showing off one of Joe and Maja’s incredi
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Bad Movies With Great Soundtracks: The Saint
Sometimes a soundtrack is so good it completely eclipses the movie it’s associated with. Few, if any film fans, remember the 1997 misfire The Saint, a muddled mess that made the mistake of allowing Val Kilmer to indulge in his propensity for playing dress up. The result twisted narrative saw Kilmer inhabit character after character,
Bad Movies With Great Soundtracks – Maximum Overdrive
I’m a bit worried I’ve peaked too early by tackling Maximum Overdrive as the second entry in this series, because it might be the ultimate answer
Bad Movies With Great Soundtracks: The Last Action Hero
I’m going to be honest: I loved The Last Action Hero as a teenager, having missed it in theaters but caught it shortly afterwards once it had trickl
Why Cleaning My Entire Record Collection, One Album At A Time, Is Good For My Soul
This past summer I decided it was finally time to clean my record collection. After having a set of floor-to-ceiling shelves built in the library of o
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