Captain Freedom

Last night I threw some halibut on the grill (Grill Three, under the secret headquarters’ open-air rifle turret) for a special occasion (none of your business) and prepared a butter consisting of chipotle and lime. ...

Recently this very site was overtaken by some evildoers and I had to fight them off with some fancy computer hacking kung-fu ( I sprayed their eyes with some olive oil from my special chrome mister). But we shouldn’t let this happen again, so here is my 7-step plan: Keep your password safe. ...

It should go without saying that superheroes are vile and without any real negotiable value, but we’re here, so we’ll go ahead and say it: They’re terrible. Over...

Hey everybody, I’m Captain Freedom! I’m a big dumb idiot and I wrote a book and stuff and I’m gonna talk about it! Bleh bleh blah blah blah! Grooming, nerdgasm, etc. Ha! We got you, didn’t we? Of course we did. Our uncanny imitation of that fool, Captain Freedom, totally had you going. But we...

True believers, you can never be too careful when you use the World Wide Web. It’s a disgusting digital dung heap of digital depravity, and yes, I said digital twice. Because, you know, Base 2. Zeroes and ones. I’m no expert at computers. I ...

Superhero Style Heroes occasionally have to act like normal people in totally unexpected ways...

That’s right good people. Even Canadians can win chances to read Captain Freedom, although it was neither translated into French, French-Canadian, Acadian, or Saskatchewan. How to win: Go to the Book Lady’s Blog. You should go there anyway, because she’s a nice lady who reads. On t...

Listen to Excerpts of G. Xavier Robillard read from Captain Freedom at McNally Jackson. Aside from his reading he talks about giving up comics in a desperate attempt to get girls. Which we believe was a total failure...

(at left, invisible pitbull) Rely on the incompetence of his crew Your enemy will likely hire a gang with sub-par talents. The labor pool for henchmen is of notoriously poor quality, as people with any drive or talent quickly move up the crime ladder...

In which I’m compared to an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I’ll take it. Not only is it consistently funny throughout, but it is packed with so many gags, riffs and rimshots that even if one bit doesn’t make you chuckle, chances are the next one will. Read the rest in Boston Edge.

G. Xavier Robillard performs a reading about the Watchmen movie in Cambridge, MA.

Who would win in a fight? the reclusive Narwhal or the magical unicorn? Find out in my column in the Powell’s Books blog.