Whenever somebody asked me what my favorite color was, I would, at first, scoff at the question because I never quite understood how anyone could prefer a color over another color. Then, I would answer with black because I, ...

When Scott first contacted the Blok about a comic so bad that it gave him pause, his statements gave me pause. For those of you who read the blog regularly, you know that our fearless leader, Deaux, does not often ...

            Before I begin, or before I begin discussing the comic in question, allow me to first offer a little insight into who I am (odd, I know, for a blogger who blogs under a pseudonym). ...

 The first full week in September is “What If Week.”  The Writer’s Blok is reading and offering thoughts and opinions on some of these gems of the Marvel Universe.  The What If stories are meant to examine what would happen ...

    Endings tend to be a tricky thing for both authors and their readers, especially in long running series as is the case for the Scott Pilgrim books.  While reading, expectations are raised, and possible conclusions are formulated in ...

    Scott Pilgrim is, for lack of a better term, crack—pure, addictive, comic crack. Once you buy into the conceit (that the entirety of the plot takes place in a video game) and invest in the human element of ...