Category: Entertainment

Moms and dads need entertainment and these posts, for one reason or another will do just that

Mutts: Walking Home, comfort comic strip food for everyone, anytime

It’s a beautiful autumn day and I’m sitting outside reading Mutts and it’s awesome. One could change every word of that previous sentence, except for ‘Mutts and it’s awesome.’, to something different and it would still be true. It’s a stormy, winter’s day and I’m in bed, under the covers reading Mutts, and it’s awesome. See, it still works. Seasonal comparisons are needed in those sentences because Mutts: Coming Home features Early running on a trail with his human. The leaves on the trees are becoming bright orange to dark yellow and are just about to succumb to gravity. It’s there where they’ll be crunched by walkers, and dogs and will complete the food chain with worms using them to produce compost.

Mutts: Walking Home compiles the tour de force dog and cat comic strip genius that’s as great as it ever was.
Consistant brilliance that’s new and classic

Human Heart Floor Puzzle for kids from Dr. Livingston puts it together

Kids love to have fun. Kids learn in different ways. Everyone knows the first statement, but not enough people acknowledge, pivot, or have the ability to pivot when the learning process might need a different mode of entry. The human body is a naturally curious topic for upper elementary and middle school students. However, there aren’t exactly internal organs that those ages have access to for ‘hands-on’ learning and books can only go so far in motivating them. Genius Games Junior has the Doctor Livingston Jr. line of puzzles that introduces the rabbit hole of our human body that fit like a glove for fifth grade and up.

Human Heart Floor Puzzle for kids from Dr. Livingston puts it together
Just enough education that’s partnered with puzzle fun

The Amazing Spider-Man, Web-Slinger, Hero, Icon high quality web head  

The book was better. Anyone who has ever seen a movie that was based on a book has certainly heard, “the book was better” by some friend or critic that wanted to sound like they discovered it first. Superheroes are unique to this because they have so many stories that catch-all phrase is more difficult to attribute to one book. With comic books it’s more of a story arc and there are some amazing stories for superheroes out there. That’s the benefit of reading or collecting graphic novels, in that the collection process of being able to read the entire story arc has been done. The Amazing Spider-Man, Web-Slinger, Hero, Icon is by Rich Johnson and is a coffee table style book whose beauty and collected works demand to be seen by webhead fans.

The Amazing Spider-Man, Web-Slinger, Hero, Icon is a coffee table, encyclopedic book that examines many of the web heads best story arcs in the comic books.
True believers, this is an awesome statement of a book

Episode 30: My Dog, Hen is a very clever and timeless illustrated book

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My Dog, Hen is an illustrated book whose illustrations and clever text combine to make it smart and refreshing for those early elementary ages who want to read about dogs…..which is pretty much every kid that age. 

Episode 29: All age comic books for September 7

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This week in all-age comics books check out Gustav & Henri, My Travels in Japan, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Cupcake Diaries and more. 

00:00 Midtown Comics in NYC,

01:39 Previews World,

01:55 Gustav & Henri on Red Comet Press,

02:51 Batman Returns One Dark Christmas on Insight Editions,

04:05 My Travels in Japan on Tuttle Publishing,

05:33 Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur TPB on Marvel Publishing,

07:27 Cupcake Diaries, Katie and the Cupcake Cure graphic novel on Simon Spotlight,

09:08 The Baby-Sitters Club, Jessi’s Secret Language graphic novel on Graphix, 

10:14 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #132 on IDW Publishing,

11:39 Dark Knights of Steel: Tales from the Three Kingdoms on DC Comics, 

12:42 Usagi Yojimbo Saga TPB Vol 5 on Dark Horse Comics, 

Episode 28: Under Exposed! 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, fun to read and think of

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In light of the Batgirl fiasco, we were reminded of a great book on the creative business of movies.  Under Exposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made is a fascinating look at cinematic projects that made sense, but didn’t see the light of day.

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