It’s West Coast Wednesdays! Christian’s weekly look at the West Coast Avengers as he re-reads this classic series from his childhood. Are they as good as he remembers them? Will it be a West Coast Boast? Or a West Coast Roast? This week: West Coast Avengers #3!

Every Wednesday Christian takes a look at some of the best writing moments from his favorite writers. This week, it’s the great Raymond Carver.

Every Tuesday Christian examines some of his favorite comic book pages. This week: A brief look at a page from issue #10 of WOLVERINE: WEAPON X sparks a long look at Wolverine as a character, and how writer Jason Aaron appears to be doing everything right.

Every Wednesday Christian takes a look at some of the best writing moments from his favorite writers. This week, an excerpt from an interesting interview with writer Chuck Palahniuk about…verbs?

Every Wednesday Christian takes a look at some of the best writing moments from his favorite writers. This week, the beginning of John Cheever’s outstanding short story, Reunion.

Every Wednesday Christian takes a look at some of the best writing moments from his favorite writers. This week, it’s the amazing Kurt Vonnegut and a selection from BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, one of the great American novels.

Every Wednesday Christian takes a look at some of the best writing moments from his favorite writers. This week, it’s the return of Grant Morrison.

…see you in a week.

I think that the way I approach books is not from the position of contention against that world, just simply saying, “Well, why do I want to read a book that takes me four days that I could basically see in a movie that takes me two hours?” A lot of what’s at stake today is how we allocate our time and how much we have. So for me, I want to read a book – and hence I will write a book – that can offer me an experience …

Think of a STORY. My contention is that a story can be made sufficiently complex that it achieves some measure of self-awareness – in fact I believe this is what’s happening when authors talk about characters ‘taking control’ or when they say ‘the story just took a turn I wasn’t planning…’. When I was doing The Invisibles, I was definitely aware of the book as a living entity which was interacting with me in many of the ways a human being might but at the time I was thinking of this …