Updated 4/23/07

Just another 14-year-old trapped in the body of a balding 30-year-old, trying to make sense of this crazy, mixed-up world by molding and shaping the youth of tommorow. It's a frightening prospect, admittedly.

And since I find far too few people in western Maine waving their geek banners proudly, I'm more than willing to stand up and be counted.

Books I Dig: Robin, Fables, DMZ, JSA, JLA, Detective Comics, Batman, Runaways, Astonishing X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, Walking Dead, Scott Pilgrim, Teen Titans, Nextwave, Y the Last Man, Exterminators, Powers, Checkmate, Garage Band, Lost Colony, Action Philsophers, Utopiates, Magnitude, Invincible

Writers I Dig: Brian K. Vaughan, Brian Wood, Brian Michael Bendis (I've a think for Brians -- so sue), Geoff Johns, Mark Waid, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Chris Claremont, Matt Fraction, James Robinson, Bill Willingham, Adam Beechen (buy Robin, buy Robin, buy Robin), Paul Dini, Kurt Busiek, Alex Robinson, Jeff Smith, Paul Chadwick, Simon Oliver

Artists I Dig: Freddie Williams II, Mike Norton, Riccardo Burchielli, Steve Bryant, Mark Buckingham, Alex Robinson, Walt Simonson, Michael Avon Oeming, Gene Colan, Dave Cockrum, Alan Davis, John Romita, John Romita Jr., Clan Kubert, Chris Sprouse, Kevin Maguire, Jeff Smith, Paul Chadwick, Pia Guerra, Tony Moore

Brilliant Stuff of the Moment: I'm STILL digging through my piles from NYCC even though it was about 2 months ago. Lots more to go through including Klezmer, a ton of Walking Dead TPBs, and Villians United.

Best reads this week: Working my way through Cerebus vol. 1 in no small part due to a great series of interviews among the podcasting nation -- especially CGS. Also scored a handful of Spider-Man: Tangled Web at a small little show -- fun Ted McKeever story, really nice Darwin Cooke issue -- and a Scott McCloud penned Superman Adventures that I'm looking forward to.

Oh, and I finish Meg Rosoff's 'How I Live Now' -- prose novel -- in two hours and dug the holy heck out of it. David Levithan is next on tap.