Dear future crush/girlfriend/fiance/wife, I love science fiction. I believe in time travel. This is my past self sending you a missive into the future. By this time, you'll know that I'm horrible with words. But I do love stories,...

Julia Rios posed a question the other day: What would you consider the most important texts to teach in a class about SF/F? (Strangely enough, I didn't see the fantasy part, and interpreted it as limited to just science fiction.) Assume ...

I've been disheartened lately when it comes to promoting Filipino comics due to a series of unfortunate incidents: a Fed-Ex package sent to a friend abroad encountered a mishap (and it's a tragedy not because of the financial costs, but ...

Not to be confused with a review, here's my initial thoughts on some comics I got during the recent Summer Komikon: Hero Kitten: Kuting Magiting by Robert Magnuson It's simple and straight-forward in terms of plot, but Kuti...

There are two Charles. One reads a lot and writes. The other plays all sorts of games. Both are contemplative and love to strategize. They seldom exist in the same space however. The first Charles could spend years devoting himself to fi...

Steven Millhauser’s novella “August Eschenburg” concerns itself with an inventor of performing automatons – a groundbreaking forefather in a field of entertainment that was in short time surpassed by animation and the movies. Historicall...