By blakemp

Think About It
Beginning in 1997, I began writing a regular humor column for the Nicholls State University campus paper, The Nicholls Worth. The column appeared in virtually every paper until I graduated in 2000. When I began working at my home town’s newspaper, I took the column with me there until my departure in 2005, at which point I began writing new columns exclusively online. Here is an archive of all columns currently online. Although I no longer write the column regularly, when the mood strikes me, it can rage again before you know it.

My Life:
Occasionally, I’ll post an article or photoblog about things in my life — visits with Erin, family weddings, and the like. Here are some of those:

Toy Stories
I love toys almost as much as I love comics, and I like reviewing them as well. And since I started to get a lot of good feedback on these photoblogs, I decided to make them a regular feature here at the ‘Realms.

Other Stuff
And finally, friends, here are a few other articles that just simply didn’t fit in anywhere else.

Christmas and Halloween Parties
I am a sucker for holidays, and I love getting into the spirit. For a few years now, every October and December I’ve deluged the internet with special content — reviews, columns, podcasts, stories and a plethora of other things — and my “Christmas Party” and “Halloween Party” have become highlights of the year for me. Although many of these articles are already archived on other pages (movie reviews, books reviews, fiction, etc.), I’m going to include a complete archive here as well for ease of navigation.

2007 Think About It Central Christmas Party
Christmas Carol Countdown
(In which I attempt to review as many iterations of A Christmas Carol as possible):
Part I: Teen Titans #13; Reduced Shakespeare Company Christmas
Part II: The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd
Part III: Politics and PVP
Part IV: A double-dose of Hanna-Barbera, Scooby Doo and the Flintstones
Part V: Bah, Humduck! The Looney Tunes Christmas Carol

Part VI: Scrooged
Part VII: Disney and the Muppets

Book Reviews:
The Frost-Haired Vixen (2005)
by John Zakour
A War of Gifts (2007) by Orson Scott Card

Comic Book Reviews:
Little Archie Digest #23: Christmas stories of a young Archie and the gang!
Marvel Two-In-One #74: The Thing and the Puppet Master — together?
PVP #36: Christmas at PVP — and Francis’ New Year nightmare!
Spider-Man, Firestar and Iceman at the Dallas Ballet Nutcracker #1: An old-school oddity!
Done-In-One Reviews, Nov. 17: Featuring my reviews of Betty and Veronica #231 and Betty and Veronica Spectacular #80.
Done-In-One Reviews, Dec. 2: Featuring my reviews of JSA Classified #32, Moonstone’s Holiday Super Spectacular and Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash #2. (No, really. It does take place at Christmas.)

Movie & TV Reviews:
Hogfather (2006)

Shrek the Halls (2007)
A Wish For Wings That Work (1991)

Other Stuff:
What Santa’s Bringing For the Geeks (Everything But Imaginary)
The Best Music of the 21st Century (so far)
Christmas Comics of 2007 (Everything But Imaginary)
2 in 1 Showcase Episode 48: Christmas Comics (Podcast)

A Long November: A Tale of Christmas Come Too Early (Podcast NOVEL!)
The Circle (Blake’s Annual Christmas Short Story)

2006 Think About It Central Christmas Party
Blake’s Annual Christmas Story:
The Helper: Christmas 006

Columns:
Put Down the Turkey and Put Up the Tree (Think About It)
How Do You Buy For Your Geek? (Everything But Imaginary)
Christmas Shopping Made Easy (Think About It)
Christmas Music Gets Twisted (Think About It)
Is Santa Claus a Super Hero? (Everything But Imaginary)

New Comic Book Reviews (From Comixtreme.com):
Archie #571 — Can Archie bring a Christmas miracle to a boy losing his faith?
Archie Digest Magazine #230 – When Archie loses his voice, will the gang’s Christmas caroling go up in smoke?
Archie’s Holiday Fun Digest #11 — Another helping of Christmas cheer from the Riverdale gang.
Betty and Veronica #222 — Another fight over Archie threatens the girls’ Christmas.
Betty and Veronica Spectacular #76 — Jingle the Elf tries Christmas as a human!
DCU: Infinite Holiday Special #1 — New Christmas tales with Green Lantern, Shadowpact, Supergirl, Shazam, the Flash, Batwoman and Superman!
Donald Duck and Friends #346 — Huey, Dewey and Louie get a lesson in Christmas charity
Dork Tower #35 — Matt and Igor in “The Geeks of the Magi.”
Fables #56 — Is Santa Claus a Fable?
Justice League Unlimited #28 — The Phantom Stranger takes the Flash on a trip through Batman’s Christmas past.
The Last Christmas TPB — Santa Claus fights for Christmas in a post-apocalyptic wasteland!
Marvel Holiday Special 2006 — A good comic with a bad framing sequence.
Mickey Mouse and Friends #295 — Mickey gets Minnie a duplicate present!
PVP #29 – Brent Sienna finds the Christmas Spirit!
Scooby-Doo #115 — What would the world be like without Scooby and Shaggy?
Simpsons Winter Wingding #1 — The first anthology of holiday tales from Springfield.
Sonic X #15 — Dr. Eggman impersonates Santa!
Uncle Scrooge #360 — Scrooge Vs. Donald: who has the most Christmas spirit?
Walt Disney’s Christmas Parade (Vol. 3) #4 — Disney tales from Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson and more.
Wolverine #49 — Terrorists take a mall on Christmas Eve. Can they beat Santa Logan?

Old and Extra Comic Book Reviews (From The Back Issue Bin):
52 #33 — Christmas in the DC Universe’s missing year.
The Authority Vs. Lobo: Jingle Hell #1 — The Authority takes its revenge on Lobo for slaying Santa!
Clerks Holiday Special #1 — Christmas for Dante and Randall.
Detective Comics #826 – The Joker takes Robin on a deadly slay ride!
Image Holiday Special 2005 — Christmas tales from PVP, Godland, Spawn, ShadowHawk, Noble Causes, The Gray Area, The Walking Dead, G-Man and many more Image favorites.
JSA #55 — On Christmas Eve, the Justice Society of America brings life back to an old friend.

Movie Reviews:
Legend of Frosty the Snowman (2005)
Muppet Christmas Triple Feature

Book Reviews:
The Great Santa Search (2006)
How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas (2005)
The Joy of a Peanuts Christmas (2000)
The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter, the Christmas Miracle Dog
(2006)

TV Specials:
Cartoon Network’s Billy, Mandy and Krypto — Death saves Christmas, the superdog gets zapped to storybook land.
Frosty the Snowman Times Three — The original Frosty, the excellent Winter Wonderland and the craptacular Frosty Returns.
A Matt Groening Christmas: The Simpsons and Futurama — I review two episodes each of Groening’s animated hits.
The Mythbusters Holiday Special (2006) — Adam and Jamie’s Rube Goldberg device, and how to keep a tree green.
The Office: A Benihana Christmas (2006) — Christmas for the gang at Dunder-Mifflin
Rankin and Bass RaritiesThe Life and Adventures of Santa Claus; The First Christmas; Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey

Other Articles:
The Many Faces of Santa Claus (Compiled by the great Fred Hembeck!)
The Movies of December

2005 Think About It Central Christmas Party
A Long November – Blake’s 2005 NaNoWriMo Novel
Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Short Stories
Lonely Miracle: Christmas 2000
Clarence Missed: Christmas 2001
Pencil Sketches: Christmas 2002
JLZX622: Christmas 2003
Promise: Christmas 2004

Everything But Imaginary Presents
Giving the Gifts of Geekdom
Christmas Comics From Duckburg to the Watchtower
Christmas Comics From Riverdale to Strange’s Sanctum

Review Articles
The Movies of December (2005)
My Favorite Christmas Music
Classic Christmas Movies
Contemporary Christmas Movies
Even More Christmas Stories

Bonuses
Blake’s Ultimate Christmas Mix
Blake’s Christmas DVDs
Overboard With the Lights
Everyone Matters
Steve Martin’s Christmas Wish
Snoopy’s Christmas
Classic Think About It: Christmas Carol Conundrum
Three Out of Four Ain’t Bad: A Shopping Rant

Think About It Christmas Message
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas

THE 2008 EVERTIME REALMS HALLOWEEN PARTY:

The Restless Dead of Siegel City:

Reviews:

Everything But Imaginary Columns:

2 in 1 Showcase Podcasts:

THE 2007 THINK ABOUT IT CENTRAL HALLOWEEN PARTY
New comic book reviews (Courtesy of
Comixtreme.com):
*Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror #13

New Comic Book Reviews (Courtesty of

Other Comic Book and Graphic Novel Reviews:
*War of the Undead (2007)

Comixtreme.com Columns:
*The Marvel Zombie Mini-Mates Present… Themselves!
*Trick or Geek!

Movie Reviews:
*28 Weeks Later (2007)Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

Original Fiction:
*Short Story: “The Worst Part”

Other Features:
*Costume Party

THE 2006 THINK ABOUT IT CENTRAL HALLOWEEN PARTY
Columns:
*Be Kind to the Geeks of October (Classic Think About It)

Movie Reviews:
*Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948 )

Book Reviews:
*World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006)

New Comic Book Reviews (From Comixtreme.com):
*Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror #12

Back Issue Bin Reviews:
*52 #25

Blake’s Fiction:
*Storm Warnings

Other Articles:The Movies of October


1 Response to “Other Writing”


  1. 1 Kathy
    March 10, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    I have been waiting patiently for the next chapter of Summer Love, and have not even seen it mentioned in by skimming of your daily outpourings. Now I am waiting impatiently! At least tell us what to expect for a timetable, please.


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