Phobia Vol. 1 (2025)
I have a policy with crowdfunding campaigns, only one at a time. Phobia was a horror anthology funded with a Kickstarter, estimated delivery was March 2024 (some delays were due to confusion around tariffs). I read a lot of horror anthologies and this one hits marks that others can’t reach. It’s funny and it also takes itself seriously. The stores are paced like those old Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, they build a world is less than two hundred words and tell you enough to leave you wanting more. Corny is good in horror, cheesy can be too, it’s a welcome change in pace when the rest of the story is morbid and gory. A lot of other horror short stories that I’ve been reading hit a wall when they want to do another lame story about a tech startup gone wrong, and it’s to feel true fear when the victim in a lot of those others stories are too deserving of their punishment. The stories in Fobia feel like they can happen to you…
Read this by the campfire the weekend before Halloween, so I think it was worth the wait.
Comic Haul week of November 25th, 2025
New comics!
Absolute Batman #13 and #14
Escape #4
DC K.O. #2
Geiger #18
Harley Quinn #56
Happy thanksgiving! My comic book store is moving to a temporary space in a antique mall, the old building is getting demolished. Future is uncertain for Old Bill but he refuses to die!
I try not to double post here what I'm already covering on other socials, you may have seen the turkey video already. That day, a friend brought over his family's signature sauce, or chutney, or something, called sambal. I'm not sure, but it's reddish pink and it seems to be mostly caramelized onions and peppers. It's really good! Speaking of cross posting, my Fantasy Football team is "regional sandwiches", inspired by my own blog. Often I update my football profile picture with a new regional sandwich, and I'm choosing to count these sambal hotdogs. I think I'll google that word tonight and see what that's all about. His family is Australian? Not sure if that will play a role in sambal's history.
These are #44 and #45 for my July 4th to July 4th hotdog counting experiment
Comic Haul week of November 18th, 2025
New comics!
One World Under Doom #9
Ghost Pepper #5
Creepshow #3
Nightwing #132
Racer X #3
The Amazing Spider-Man #16
My sister go married, very cool. My girlfriend and I tried doing a dip in the photobooth, it almost worked. We love wedding photobooths, it's always worth waiting in line for. This year has been a wedding gauntlet for us, still two more to go. I bought a new suit today and it matched a suit I wore in someone else’s dream. It was the first thing expensive thing I’ve bought that I could be excited for in a long time (a new washing machine just doesn’t have any thrill)
