Author: Kris (not Chris)

It’s New To Me: Omega: The Unknown #1

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I’m going to start a new series for the blog here, for now called It’s New To Me, where I will take a look at older comics I’ve missed out on, somehow never got around to, or just found out about. Or maybe I’ve had them for awhile and didn’t get to them in a Timely Fashion (was that a Marvel joke? Was that a joke?) so let’s kick things off with something I’ve heard a lot about Omega: The Unknown. Strap on your sideburns, hang your coke-spoon necklaces in your thickly matted chest-muff, and lets travel back to the 1970’s when the D-double-E-J-A-Y’s didn’t have to wear headphones to be on the radio (I’m looking at you Dr. Johnny Fever) and people hadn’t started throwing doughnuts at Anne Wilson from Heart yet.

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BCWYWF #1

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I’ve been meaning to get to this for awhile, so let’s dig in to some dirty jobs, hard choices, and don’t forget to punch in or you won’t get paid for today.

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Happy 4th of July

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Happy 4th of July from The Gravy Age, be safe, try not to blow off your thumbs or testicles tonight. New episode, interviews and more coming soon. Just spent a week up in the mountains while the kiddos had a day camp, haven’t had a chance to read anything at all. What’s coming up? A review of BCWYWF and something special involving our buds at Bayside High And Drunk and some Saved By The Bell Comics.
-Kris
PS check out the upcoming episode of Axeology for a little song I did to test my Orange Crush 35RT and recording into Ableton with my DigiTech RP360 as a DI box lol

Love Wins

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This isn’t a political blog, and this isn’t comics related, but today is a historic day. Gay marriage is legal in all 50 states (finally) and I’m exceedingly happy. Am I gay? Nope. Do I believe that people should be allowed to marry someone they love, whether they are of the same or opposite sex? All day, every day, and in all 50 states. We turned down a podcast guest awhile ago, because of their repellent, hateful, opinions of in their words The Homo’s, and some extraordinarily backwards opinions of non-white characters in comic books. Today though, I’m happy. Happy I don’t have to explain to my children that only certain people can be married again. Happy that people who are in love, can be recognized as equals in the eyes of the law. The world is an awful place, and love is not a color issue, an issue or sexual orientation or gender, it’s a human issue. If you are lucky enough to find a partner you love, and want to spend your life with, by all means take that person by the hand, look them in the eyes and say, “I do.” Celebrate love. Celebrate equality. Celebrate Gay Marriage. Thanks SCOTUS

-Kris

There Is Gravy On This Comic Book

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The Obscura Collected Edition is here, at least in digital form, and damn is it gorgeous. Physical copies won’t be far behind, I can’t wait to hold the actual book in my hands. Say, who is that smart, handsome fella with a blurb on the back cover?

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It's Carl... Oh hey, another name back here looks familiar

Big thanks to Fifth Dimension Comics and everyone involved in Obscura, it is beautiful. I never thought I would get to have a cover blurb on a book, especially one this effing good.
-Kris