Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon

The way MTV Geek’s Alex Zal­ben described Hawk­eye to Jesse Thorn on Bulls­eyemade it sound like Amer­i­can Splen­dor with a bow and arrow. He wasn’t wrong. I just fin­ished read­ing #10 and I’m ready for more.

Beau­ti­fully drawn and bril­liantly writ­ten, Hawkeye’s life out­side the Avengers is pos­i­tively spell­bind­ing. The issue ded­i­cated to Hur­ri­cane Sandy may be one of the most mov­ing trib­utes imag­ined. The artists com­pris­ing Team Hawkguy are doing some­thing truly special.


Vikings — Season One

After a binge view­ing ses­sion while I was home sick dur­ing Watchathon (hon­est!), His­tory Channel’s new show, Vikings, became one of my favorite shows on TV. The first sea­son just ended, but if you’re look­ing for Sons of Anar­chy set in the Dark Ages, then this is the show for you.


Why I’m Switching to Android

I wrote about renew­ing my iPhone vows about a month ago. I’m chang­ing my mind. Why? A com­bi­na­tion of curios­ity and con­ve­nience. I’m not going to dis­count the num­ber of posts from influ­encers like Matthew Ingram, Guy Kawasaki and Robert Scoble, but the tip­ping point was really friends who’ve adopted Android with their lat­est phones.


Clinic — Free Reign II

It took a while, but with Free Reign II, Clinic have redis­cov­ered the spooky, sleepy psy­che­delia that made Inter­nal Wran­gler and Walk­ing With Thee so dark and magical.


The Thermals — Desperate Ground

The Ther­mals have a new album out in April on Sad­dle Creek. It’s called Des­per­ate Ground. I’m really excited.