Defending the Cat

One of the more curious successes that’s emerged from the whatever’s-clever Tumblr era of the internet has been “Garfield Minus Garfield,” created by Dan Walsh. The central conceit is that Walsh would...

The Source of Inspiration

Writing Xevious has been a great experience for a lot of reasons – collaborating with Mike Norton, working with Cryptozoic Entertainment and Namco Bandai Games, and researching my pet interest of the...

The Wonder of Past Civilizations

I’ve mentioned before the fact that the original Xevious game seems to be set in Peru. I say “seems to be” because during Xevious’s introduction there wasn’t an abundance of journalism in the video...

Enjoying the Research

There is probably no other profession that’s been written about more than writing. By my calculations (and by that I mean “vague guess based on having read all the books he’d written by the time I was...

Taking Flight

Just FYI: I hate flying in planes.

Working as a comic-book writer means I have to travel a lot during the year. I do conventions all around the country, and I also like to use the freedom writing gives me to...

My (Secret) Favorite Gaming System

I’ve mentioned on here before that the first home console game system that I ever saw, and later owned, was the NES (which is probably common for kids of my early-80s generation). It was not, however,...

Connecting Video Games and Comics

I was in the first grade when I saw my first NES game – it was the Legend of Zelda. I’ve almost forgotten the name of my friend whose basement I was in (it was Adam… something. We lost touch before the...

Welcome to Xevious!

Hello and welcome to our first installment of XEVIOUS! In future installments, this space will be used for background info on production, a discussion of the inspiration behind some of the ideas,...