Nearly a year since my last update, which is a delinquent amount of time, Artificial Ink Drops returns! The Earth spins around the Sun too quickly sometimes. I’ve had a busy year navigating both professional and personal life changes, but fully intend to return to the newsletter as soon as I can come up for air. There is always so much to share, but so little time, though I have ideas on how to streamline this outlet.
But that’s all for the future. Today, I wanted to briefly point my newsletter subscribers towards CBR.com aka Comic Book Resources, which is one of the internet’s premiere platforms for comic book and pop culture related news and reviews. Back in November, I joined the authority team to review and promote my favorite books.
During my time with the Watchtower Database YouTube channel, I shared comic book recommendations on socials in a series called Comic Relief and later as YouTube video rants for Graphic Content. Both were attempts to share some of my favorite comic books and graphic novels, and promote new books that I enjoyed. My work as a comic book critic and review writer for CBR.com continues in that spirit.
My editors allow me total freedom to choose every one of the topics that I cover, so I am always writing about books that I personally love and am excited to read. So far, the only book that I was requested to cover was the original story arc of Daredevil: Born Again to accompany the release of the recent Disney+ series, but I volunteered to review that book since I had a copy on my shelf that I had never cracked open before.
Check out my CBR author profile and be sure to click ‘follow’ so you get a weekly email directly from CBR with my latest book reviews. I’m also always posting and promoting them on Threads and Bluesky, so you can find them shared there as well.
While I’ve got you, I would also like to promote two upcoming panels that I am presenting for Iron City Comic Con 2025 in Birmingham, Alabama: “How To Make A Comic Book” on Saturday, May 31st where I will discuss how to move beyond a story idea in your head to a printed copy in your hands, as well as “Superman: Legacy of the First Superhero” on Sunday, June 1st to highlight how Superman remains just as culturally significant today as when he first appeared in 1938’s Action Comics #1.
Beyond that, I’ll write another post soon with further updates including the YouTube debut of my 4SIGHT short film, as well as my recent work in the production office on the sci-fi/action feature Kill Him ‘Til He’s Dead and a TV movie that I can’t discuss yet. But that can wait for next time, which I promise will be sooner than Spring 2026.
In the meantime, I’ll leave you with a recent movie review that I wrote for the Dust on the VCR newsletter about one of my favorite films, Dead Man directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Johnny Depp. The acid western film is dark and dismal, yet also poetic and hilarious. Jim Jarmusch’s library of work has a way of being many things at once, so watch the movie on Max or the Criterion Channel, and check out the review.
Hopefully this is the start of a return to the newsletter habit. Until next time!