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Mark Hayman
Mark J. Hayman became a professional writer at the age of nineteen, composing and editing Point of Purchase price cards for the Canadian Tire Corp. It’s been all downhill from there. He remains a sometimes editor, occasional writer, and infrequent illustrator currently living in the no man’s land between creeping urban oppression and dwindling rural bliss. As the most interesting person he knows, it’s been strongly suggested that he get out more. markjhayman@gmail.com
MAGAZINE CONTENT BY MARK J. HAYMAN (6 TOTAL)
A Long Brush with Marvel Comics
Whatever confluence of events, whatever set of circumstance that attaches a child to a thing, in this case to Marvel Comics, is within the purview of the brain people and magicians. It interests me that… [more]
Super Karate Monkey Death Car: Geoff Johns and the DC Universe
It’s true, pobody’s nerfect. We live with our foibles and imperfections, our biases and misconceptions, and hope that they don’t cause too many problems for ourselves or those around us. The human failing that most… [more]
Of Squirrels and Girls
This exposes me to some risk, having to look over my shoulder for Steinbeck’s vengeful spirit, but that’s the life we choose in the thrilling, fast-paced world of sequential art criticism. Not like music reviewers… [more]
The Near and Distant Horizon
Timeliness is next to prescience, or something like that. Here I was preparing this screed when I chanced upon an article by a person who insists that the survival of comic books is dependent upon… [more]
The Good, the Trek, and the Ugly: Spotlight on Star Trek Continues
There’s something you ought to know: Star Trek Lives! Not merely in the Rasputin-like, unkillable sense that it just won’t go away, no; rather, in the infinitely more appealing sense that the franchise torch continues… [more]
My (Very Brief) History with SF
Speculative Fiction, more commonly referred to as “Science Fiction”, has been described as perhaps the best means of conveying complex ideas. It is a broad genre that was, and for some remains pigeon-holed, like comic… [more]