We are now in what is called the shoulder season. The weather is generally warming and the crowd are starting to arrive but we are not at peak Summer visitation levels yet. This happens on either side of peak season as you probably guessed from the name.

This is a difficult time of year. The full Summer crowds aren't here yet but there are a lot more people than there are in the off season. Staffing levels aren't up to peak yet either though. Places are just opening or are still...

Nightmares and Fairytales is a somewhat obscure, black and white horror anthology comic that uses a mysterious, cutesy-macabre and possibly cursed talking doll named Anabelle as narrator and bridging device. There is a new Nightmares and Fairytales 4 issue limited series coming out.


Anabelle is now with Gwen who is the latest in a long series of owners...

I thought I would post a bit about how I see such thing. They are fan terms and not well defined but this is how I define them.

Note that this has nothing at all to do with how good I think the characters are. This is all about how popular and well known the character is.

A list - These are most successful and best known characters. Even people who don't care a bit about comics will generally recognize their names. They will usually be in multiple ongoing solo titles...

This is another of my store of self-published titles.

by Magdalena Kania, known on deviantART as Meago.
http://meago.deviantart.com/

This is also the only comic I own from Poland.

This is a slice of life school romance sort of series. It starts with the two main characters as an adult married couple with a teenage daughter. The two main characters, Emily and bob...

Next up is the 5 issue limited series


from Image comics.

I'm not quite how to descibe this rather unusual title but I suppose it's mainly a psychological thriller. The main character is a disgraced doctor who has had his license to practice medicine revoked after his booze and coke habit led to a patient's death. In his now copious spare time, he saves the life of the...