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The Greatness of Grickle

February 22, 2010 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Highest Recommendations!, Skimming the Internets

I’ve learned that one of the nicest parts of my job is that I am frequently exposed to books that I might not have encountered were I not attempting to get them publicity. One of these recent surprises—I’m ashamed to say “recent,” as his work is really tremendous—was the cartooning of Graham Annable.
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It’s time for a Pizza Party!

January 04, 2010 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Skimming the Internets

Because sometimes it saves you a few hours a day when you just post a picture worth a thousand words instead of writing them, the long neglected tumblr known as “Pizza Party!” is back.
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Dreaming of a (Furry, Black and) White Christmas

December 24, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Skimming the Internets

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Dang, the internetz are teh best place in teh world!”?

I have!
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My Best of 2009, or Some Stuff I Read and Liked

December 21, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Highest Recommendations!, Skimming the Internets

Come December, the “Best Of” lists begin rolling out and I realize how few of this year’s massive amount of great books I read in the past 365 days. Keeping up with every exciting indie and explosive mainstream title is hard work in this economy, even for a guy who ended up getting most of his comics via comped copies in 2009. Still, though I may not have read much that’s made people’s top ten lists this year, but I have read a ton of great comics in 2009.
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A Tale of Two Shepherds

December 21, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Haphazard Reckonings, Skimming the Internets, TV guides

Certainly and absolutely, I’m the first person in the entirety of the interwebs to make this realization/comparison (sarcasm!), but “Mass Effect” hero John Shepherd looks a helluva lot like “LOST’s” Jack Shepherd!
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For the love of Conan!

December 18, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Skimming the Internets

Over at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow has a glowing review of Dark Horse’s current Conan series.

Yes, the entire series!
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Loads o’ Dark Horse links, or “What I did this week at my new job”

December 11, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Real Life Happenings!, Skimming the Internets

Now, I won’t make a habit of flooding this blog with all the news and promotional links I helped to arrange at my day job, but as I’m only in my third week at Dark Horse, I figure one post full of links won’t kill the ol’ EoP! Plus, after two weeks of learning the ropes, I feel like this is the week I really started getting into the swing of things—and I “swang” hard! These links are evidence of that “swingage!”
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A Hodgepodge post from Portland

December 08, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Real Life Happenings!, Skimming the Internets

Time to get back into this blogging game, one post at a time…
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Odell Poletti’s Mustache Emporium

November 23, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Facial Hair, Skimming the Internets

Ready for another man-tastic moustache video featuring the incredibly entertaining Matthew Rodriguez Alphonso Stephen Lubicky? Well good, because MRASL sent me one earlier today!
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It’s Moustache Rating Time!

November 15, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Facial Hair, Highest Recommendations!, Real Life Happenings!, Skimming the Internets

As of today—Movember the 15th, in the year 2009—my Movember moustache can be judged by the masses!
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