Category Archives: My Life
My 6 Favorite Things of 2024
Welp, the world keeps spinning and we’ve reached the end of another year. It was a crap year full of mostly crap entertainment, and I’m coming up empty in terms of empathy and interest. Following the presidential election, I’m opting to be more cynical these days as a coping mechanism. This was also the year I took a back seat on posting all the time. This was a year.
In good news, I finally started my own original comic — Cover Bard — and am halfway done with the first issue. I need to make a big post about it. And the second volume of Gamer Girl & Vixen is complete and headed to the printers, to be distributed and available for sale early next year. So those were some good things that happened. We also had a ton of great TV shows, but not a lot of great movies or video games. It was a weird year.
But I like putting together a list like this, so join me after the jump for my favorite bits and pieces of pop culture from 2024! And feel free to share your own in the comments below.
Read the rest of this entryI’m Thinking of Writing Less
So, uh, after more than a decade of randomly typing up nonsense in this personal, daily blog of mine, I’ve decided to start taking more of a step back. I’ve never been one to chase viewers or SEO or any of that, and honestly, that probably counted against me. I just don’t get many views, and numbers have been shrinking all years. And after several thousands of posts, I just don’t find it fun anymore. It’s work to try to post daily, even if all I’m doing is sharing a movie trailer or two.
I think I’m just going to post when I feel like it.
I don’t want to close up shop completely. I just want to break out of the rigid schedule I set for myself, where I needed to have a List of Six up every Wednesday, and then comic reviews every Saturday. As my List of Six page will tell you, I came up with mostly unique lists once a week for more than a decade! No repeats! That’s pretty darn impressive. And that archive will always exist for me and others to look back on.
And comic reviews; I really just reviewed things I enjoyed. If I wasn’t liking a comic, I’d drop it. So it was just me praising a bunch of comics I really loved. I can do that without forcing myself to write a weekly review column. I can highlight specific comics I’m enjoying, specific issues, and maybe even tpbs. I’ve got a big pile of trade paperbacks I need to read. Maybe I’ll talk about those!
Suffice to say, this isn’t goodbye. This is just me freeing myself from the rigid schedule I forced on myself for the past decade. This blog is never going to make me famous or rich, but it can remain a place for me to just write about what I want when I want. There will be more movie trailers, more Lists of Six and more reviews, just on a looser schedule.
I always told myself I didn’t want to stop writing on this blog because I knew my lazy butt wouldn’t replace it with anything, that I’d just do less things. But it’s time for me to start focusing on making my own comics. Gamer Girl & Vixen vol. 2 just had a successful Kickstarter and will come out this year. I’ve got a short story coming out soon in Scott Snyder Presents: The Cloakroom #1. And I’ve hired an artist to start working on Cover Bard #1, at long last. And I want to share all these projects with you on this blog, so I’m going to do more of that.
Thank you, everyone, for reading all this time. Feel free to pop back in from time to time to see what I post. I just want to be a little less strict on myself and focus more on my script writing. Here’s hoping that goes well!
Mostly all of this is just to say this week’s List of Six is gonna be my review of the new Fallout show, and I just haven’t finished the show yet.
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My 6 Favorite Things of 2023
Who could imagine that the end of another year has come. I turned 40 this year, and life is what it is. My job got a lot busier, my bank account got a lot smaller, and I’ve got a few different comic projects in the works! More on that later. For now, it’s time to celebrate my favorite pop culture media from the past year.
As always, I don’t listen to music, so I don’t have any favorite songs from the year. Mostly I’m here to talk about video games, movies, TV show and comics, my favorite hobbies! I’ve thrown in a couple of other entries to get up to six, because a man has a theme.
So join me after the jump for my favorite bits from pop culture in the past year. And feel free to share your own favorite things from the past year in the comments below!
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6 Things On My Bucket List (Now That I’m 40)
Happy Birthday, to me! A whole bunch of coincidences came together for this moment: it’s a Wednesday, so there’s a new List of Six on this blog that I do, and it’s also my birthday, and it’s my 40th birthday. How about that? I’m 40! As of today! I’ve been writing this blog all through my 30s and let me tell you…life just keeps rolling along. I got no life lessons, people. Nothing. I’m still as interested in comic books and LEGOs as I was a decade ago.
So what to do for my List of Six on my 40th birthday? I thought about doing a fun list, like what comic book characters I hope to write someday. But I did that list last year and forgot that I did. Oh well. So I thought up another idea: what are things on my bucket list? I’ve got maybe 40 more years on this planet — if I’m lucky — and what am I going to do with those years? Hopefully, these six things, at some point.
Join me after the jump for six things on my life’s bucket list that I will hopefully complete before I die. And they’re all pretty surface level. Nothing silly like ‘fall in love again’ or ‘make a million dollars’. Just dumb Sean stuff. Also, other than the #1, the entries on this list are not in any particular order. They’re just in the way they came to me as I was writing.
Read the rest of this entryMy Next Comic Book Project is Cover Bard
Great news, everybody! At long last I am finally working on a new comic book writing project! All my life I’ve wanted to be a professional fiction writer, but I’ve never really done it all that much. I’ve got this blog, and my first comic book project, Gamer Girl & Vixen, is still in production. But finally, at long last, I’ve started up a whole new, solo project!
Introducing Cover Bard, my new fantasy comic book series!
For the past year, I’ve been taking a comics writing class from Scott Snyder, the guy behind New 52 Batman and a ton of other great comic books and stories. The class has really taught me a lot and helped me to focus on my storytelling. I highly recommend the class on Substack. It’s about to start its second year, still going strong.
That class has finally pushed me to write again. I’ve always had a ton of ideas, but there’s just be some mental block that stopped me from buckling down and just writing. I just wouldn’t get out of my own way. But the time is now, and the story is Cover Bard!
This is going to be a fantasy comic about that very idea, of a creator unable to get out of their own way. Cover Bard will star Langley Stoll, a rather unimpressive young man who’s always dreamed of being a famous bard. But instead of writing and performing his own music, he spends all his time doing cover songs of the far more famous and popular bard, Phoenix Fire.
This isn’t a comic about the greatest bard in the world. This is just a tribute.
Langley — stage name “Phoenix Lyre” — meets up with the elf rogue, Kenzie Fleet, and the gnoll fighter, Bartlesby of the Sharptooth Cackle, to go on an adventure to the upcoming Phoenix Fire concert in the big city. Langley is convinced that if gets a chance to play his tribute songs for his musical idol, then Phoenix Fire will take him along on tour and he’ll finally be famous. Little does he know, Kenzie, the rogue, is playing him for a sucker. She plans to use Langley as both a Trojan Horse and a fall guy in her scheme to rob Phoenix Fire blind. She just has to get Langley to the big concert in one piece.
And that is the basic story, set up in the first issue…which is written, but is far from done. I plan to use this upcoming month to hire an artist and get to work making a new comic! I’m planning for 5 to 6 total issues, with some Kickstarters along the way to help fund it. So expect to see more about Cover Bard on this blog in the future.
I’m finally making my own comics again and I couldn’t be more excited!
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