Tom Knapp is the founder, editor, publisher, designer, dishwasher, dog groomer and chief writer for Rambles. He is also a newspaper reporter and freelance writer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he amuses himself playing Irish, Scottish and Cape Breton folk tunes on his fiddle, bodhran, CD player and car stereo. Determined to share (or inflict, depending who you ask) his music in as many ways as he can possibly imagine, he joined forces with author Chet Williamson to form Fire in the Glen, a regionally prominent Irish traditional/Celtic eclectic duo with two CDs and a varied performance schedule under their belts.

A wild Celt by nature (and proudly eccentric), Tom collects swords and other sharp, pre-gunpowder implements of destruction, which he stockpiles against the day the Romans, Saxons or Normans decide to (re)invade. He shares his house with a dog, Morgan; two cats, Puck and Marlowe; a nameless ghost who mostly just lurks in the upstairs hallway; and a very unusual sense of interior design. Although he is well-versed in several brands of computer, he is a proudly devoted Mac head.

His personal website includes photos from Ireland, Scotland, England and Norway, plus Cape Breton in Canada, Walden Pond in the U.S. and Cancun in Mexico; a substantial collection of quotes from famous and esoteric sources; and a wide array of links. He can be reached via e-mail at rhymer@rambles.net.

Editing and publishing Rambles each week keeps Tom plenty busy, but he hasn't let that interfere with his writing. (Yet!) You can see lists of Tom's reviews, interviews and essays by clicking on the menu selections below. Thanks for visiting!

Tom's graphic novel reviews:

The Adventures of Captain America

Aliens: Sacrifice/Salvation

Amazing Spider-Girl
• #1: Whatever Happened to the Daughter of Spider-Man
• #2: Comes the Carnage

The American Way

Angel
The Curse
Old Friends

Angel: After the Fall
#1

Animal Man

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
The First Death
Guilty Pleasures, Vol. 1
Guilty Pleasures, Vol. 2

Ant:
Days Like These
Reality Bites

Aphrodite IX #1: Time Out of Mind

Aquaman:
The Waterbearer

The Astounding Wolf-Man
Vol. 1
Vol. 2

Astro City:
• #1: Life in the Big City, Kurt Busiek, Brent E. Anderson
• #2: Confession, Kurt Busiek, Brent E. Anderson
• #3: Family Album, Kurt Busiek, Brent E. Anderson
• #4: The Tarnished Angel, Kurt Busiek, Brent E. Anderson
• #5: Local Heroes, Kurt Busiek, Brent E. Anderson

The Amalgam Age of Comics

Ant-Man's Big Christmas

Atom
My Life in Miniature

Bad Girls

Ballads

Batgirl
Death Wish

Batman
All-Star Batman & Robin, The Boy Wonder
Arkham Asylum
Batman of Arkham
The Blue, the Grey & the Bat
Broken City
The Chalice
The Cult
Dark Knight Dynasty
The Dark Knight Returns
Dark Victory
Demon
Demon: A Tragedy
DOA
The Doom That Came to Gotham
Dreamland
Ego
Fortunate Son
Gotham by Gaslight
Gotham County Line
Gotham Noir
Gothic
Harley Quinn
Harvest Breed
Haunted Gotham
Huntress: Cry for Blood
Hush
Jekyll & Hyde
The Killing Joke
Lobo
The Long Halloween
Officer Down
Outlaws
Prey
Scarface: A Psychodrama
Scottish Connection
Shaman
Son of the Demon
Spider-Man: Disordered Minds
Switch
Terror
Thrillkiller
War Crimes
War Drums
War Games #1: Outbreak
War Games #2: Tides
War Games #3: Endgame
War on Crime
X4
Year One

Batman & Green Arrow: The Poison Tomorrow

Batman & Judge Dredd: Die Laughing, The Ultimate Riddle

Batman & Nightwing: Bloodborne

Batman & Tarzan: Claws of the Cat-Woman

Batman vs. Aliens

Batman vs. Aliens 2

Batman vs. Predator

Batman vs. Predator II: Bloodmatch

Battle Pope
• #1: Genesis
• #2: Mayhem
• #3: Pillow Talk

The Beast of Chicago

Beyond

Big Clay Pot

Billy the Kid's Old-Timey Oddities

Birds of Prey
Batgirl/Catwoman & Catwoman/Oracle
Birds of Prey
Of Like Minds
Old Friends, New Enemies

Bite Club: Die Now, Live Forever

Black Harvest

Black Orchid

Black Widow
Black Widow
Homecoming

Blecky Yuckerella

Bomb Queen
• #1: Woman of Mass Destruction
• #2: Dirty Bomb
• #3: Bombshell
• #4: Suicide Bomber

Bone
• #1: Out from Boneville
• #2: The Great Cow Race
• #3: Eyes of the Storm
• #4: The Dragonslayer
• #5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border
• #6: Old Man's Cave
• #7: Ghost Circles
• #8: Treasure Hunters

The Books of Magic
The Books of Magic
• #1: Bindings
• #2: Summonings
• #3: Reckonings
• #4: Transformations
• #5: Girl in the Box

The Borden Tragedy

The Brave & the Bold
• #1: The Lords of Luck

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Crash Test Demons
The Death of Buffy
The Dust Waltz
The Origin
Pale Reflections
Past Lives
The Remaining Sunlight
A Stake to the Heart
Tales of the Slayers
Tales of the Vampires
Uninvited Guests
Willow & Tara
• #1: The Long Way Home
• #2: No Future for You
• #3: Wolves at the Gate

Captain Gravity

Catwoman
• #2: Crooked Little Town
• #3: Relentless
• #4: Wild Ride
Catwoman Dies
Crime Pays
Her Sister's Keeper
It's Only a Movie
The Replacements
Selina's Big Score
When in Rome

Cellar of Nastiness

Chronicles of Wormwood

City of Tomorrow

Civil War
Captain America
Civil War
Front Line #1
Iron Man
Ms. Marvel
Peter Parker, Spider-Man
War Crimes

The Clouds Above

Code of Honor

Common Grounds

The Complete Peanuts
1950 to 1952
1953 to 1954

Cover Girl

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Crossing Midnight, Vol. 1: Cut Here

Crush

Daddy's Girl

Danger Girl
Back in Black
The Ultimate Collection

Daredevil

Daredevil: Born Again

Daredevil: The Fall of the Kingpin

Dark Hunger

Dark Mists: Kuroi Kiri

Darling Cheri

DC 2000

DC vs. Marvel

Dead@17: The Complete First Series

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Death
At Death's Door
The High Cost of Living
The Time of Your Life

Death Valley

Decoy

Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold

Doctor Mid-Nite

Dorothy: Vol. 1

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

The Early Works of Dr. Seuss, Vol. 1

Edgar Allan Poe's Haunt of Horror

Elektra
Lives Again
• #1: Introspect
• #2: Everything Old is New Again
• #3: Relentless
• #4: Frenzy

Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl

Emma Frost
• #1: Higher Learning

Empowered
Empowered
Empowered 2
Empowered 3
Empowered 4

Enemy Ace: War in Heaven

Essential Painkiller Jane

Eternals

Ex Machina
• #1: The First Hundred Days
• #2: Tag

The Expendable One #2: The Boob versus the Boobs

Ezra: The Egyptian Exchange

Fables
• #1: Legends in Exile
• #2: Animal Farm
The Last Castle
1001 Nights of Snowfall

Fallen Angel
• #1: Fallen Angel
• #2: Down to Earth

Fallen Angel
• #1: To Serve in Heaven

Fanboy

Fantastic Four
Franklin Richards, Son of a Genius: Lab Brat
Heroes Reborn
Superman: The Infinite Destruction

Fierce

The Flash: Iron Heights

Fray

Freshmen
• #1: Freshmen
• #2: Fundamentals of Fear

Galaxy Quest: Global Warning

Gen 13
A Christmas Caper
Gen 13
Grunge Saves the World
London • New York • Hell
Lost in Paradise
Meanwhile...
Science Friction
September Song
Superhuman Like You
Fantastic Four: Qeelocke's Really Big New York Adventure
Vol. 4: Best of a Bad Lot

Ghost
Stories
Nocturnes

Ghost Whisperer
• #1: The Haunted

Giant Monster

Girls
• #1: Conception
• #2: Emergence
• #3: Survival
• #4: Extinction

The Golden Age

The Grave Robber's Daughter

Great Lakes Avengers: Misassembled

Green Arrow
• #1: Quiver
• #2: Sounds of Violence
• #3: Straight Shooter
• #4: The Archer's Quest

Green Arrow & Black Canary
• #1: Road to the Altar
• #2: Family Business
• #3: A League of Their Own

Green Lantern
Baptism of Fire
Emerald Knights
Fear Itself
Rebirth
versus Aliens

Green Lantern/Green Arrow
Vol. 1

Gypsy: Collected

Half Dead

Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace: 1951-1952

Hawkman/Hawkgirl
• #1: Endless Flight
• #2: Allies & Enemies
• #3: Wings of Fury
• #4: Rise of the Golden Eagle
• #5: The Maw

Hellblazer
All His Engines
Damnation's Flame
Dangerous Habits
Empathy is the Enemy
Fear & Loathing
Freezes Over
Good Intentions
Hard Time
Haunted
Highwater
Lady Constantine
Original Sins
Papa Midnite
Rake at the Gates of Hell
Rare Cuts
Red Sepulchre
Setting Sun
Son of Man
Tainted Love

Heroes: Vol. 1

Hexed

Hey, Wait...

Highlander
• #1: The Coldest War

The Hood

The House on the Borderland

Hulk
The End
Gray

I Killed Adolf Hitler

Iron Man: The Iron Age

Jack Hightower

Jack of Fables
• #1: The (Nearly) Great Escape
• #3: The Bad Prince
• #4: Americana

Jenny Finn: Doom Messiah

Justice League of America:
Act of God
Created Equal
Crisis of Conscience
Earth 2
Foreign Bodies
Formerly Known as the Justice League
Gods & Monsters
Heaven's Ladder
Justice Riders
The Nail
A New Beginning
Primeval
Superpower
vs. Predator
Witchblade
World Without Grown-Ups
Year One
Zatanna's Search

Justice Society of America:
The Liberty File
The Unholy 3
• #1: Justice Be Done
• #2: Darkness Falls
• #3: The Return of Hawkman

Just Imagine Stan Lee's Batman

The Kents

Kingdom Come

La Muse

The Last Avengers Story

The Last Christmas

Last Hero Standing

The Last Musketeer

Lazarus Jack

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Vol. I
Vol. II
Black Dossier

League of Justice

The Left Bank Gang

The Little Endless Storybook

The Living & the Dead

Locas: The Maggie & Hopey Stories

The Lone Ranger
#1

The Lost Books of Eve
Vol. 1

Love & Rockets:
• #1: Music for Mechanics
• #2: Chelo's Burden
• #3: Las Mujeres Perdidas
• #4: Tears from Heaven
• #5: House of Raging Women
• #6: Duck Feet
• #7: The Death of Speedy
• #8: Blood of Palomar
• #9: Flies on the Ceiling
• #10: X
• #12: Poison River
• #20: Dicks & Deedees
New Tales of Old Palomar 2

Lucifer:
Children & Monsters
Devil in the Gateway

Lust

Mad Night

Mage
The Hero Discovered
The Hero Defined

Manhunter
• #1: Street Justice
• #2: Trial By Fire
• #3: Origins
• #4: Unleashed

Maniac Killer Strikes Again

Marvels

Marvel Zombies

Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness

Marville

Meow, Baby!

The Middleman
• #3: Inescapability
• The Collected Series: Indispensability

Mighty Love

Moon Knight
• #1: The Bottom
• #2: Midnight Sun

Morbid Drive

Ms. Marvel
• #1: The Best of the Best
• #2: Civil War
• #3: Operation Lightning Storm

Mystique
• #1: Drop Dead Gorgeous
• #2: Tinker, Tailor, Mutant, Spy
• #3: Unnatural

Neozoic

Neverwhere

The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln

New Mangaverse: The Rings of Fate

Nightwing:
Nightwing/Huntress
Ties That Bind
• #1: A Knight in Bludhaven
• #2: Rough Justice
• #3: Love & Bullets
• #4: A Darker Shade of Justice
• #7: On the Razor's Edge

9-11

Northlanders
• #1: Sven the Returned

'Nuff Said

The OMAC Project

On a Pale Horse

The Outsiders
• #1: Looking for Trouble

Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories

Peculia & the Groon Grove Vampires

Plastic Man
• #1: On the Lam
• #2: Rubber Bandits

Power Girl

Powers
• #1: Who Killed Retro Girl?
• #2: Roleplay
• #3: Little Deaths
• #4: Supergroup
• #5: Anarchy
• #6: Sellouts

Preacher
#1: Gone to Texas
#2: Until the End of the World
#3: Proud Americans
#4: Ancient History
#5: Dixie Fried

Pride of Baghdad

Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe

The Rabid

Rann-Thanagar War

Realworlds
Batman
Justice League of America
Superman
Wonder Woman

Red Sonja
Claw: The Devil's Hands
Queen of the Frozen Wastes
Red Sonja vs. Thulsa Doom
She-Devil with a Sword
Spider-Man
Red Sonja

Robin: Year One

Rose

Route 666: Highway to Horror

Ruse
• #1: Enter the Detective
• #2: The Silent Partner

The Sandman
Preludes & Nocturnes
The Doll's House
Dream Country
Season of Mists
Fables & Reflections
A Game of You
Brief Lives
Worlds' End
The Kindly Ones
Endless Nights

Sandman Mystery Theatre
• #1: The Tarantula
• #2: The Face & the Brute
• #3: The Vamp
• #4: The Scorpion

School Bites

Sea of Red
• #1: No Grave But the Sea
• #2: No Quarter

Secret Invasion: Inhumans

The Secret Society of Super-Heroes

Seven Soldiers of Victory

Shado: Song of the Dragon

Shanna the She-Devil
Shanna the She-Devil
Survival of the Fittest

Shaun of the Dead

Shazam
The Power of Hope
The Power of Shazam

Sheena
• #1: Queen of the Jungle

Shi
The Definitive Shi: The Essential Warrior, Vol. 1
Ju-Nen
Senryaku
The Way of the Warrior

Shmobots

Silke

Simon Dark
• #1: What Simon Does

1602

Slaine
Demon Killer
The Horned God

The Sleepy Truth

Spawn: Blood & Shadows

Spider-Man
Spider-Man: Disordered Minds
Batman: Disordered Minds
Blue
The Evil That Men Do
Fairy Tales
Fearful Symmetry: Kraven's Last Hunt
Gen 13
Kingpin: To the Death
One More Day
Red Sonja
Spirits of the Earth
Tangled Web #1
Tangled Web #2
Torment

Spider-Woman: Origin

Spike
Asylum
Old Times
Old Wounds
Shadow Puppets
Spike vs. Dracula

Spy vs Spy
Danger! Intrigue! Stupidity!
Masters of Mayhem
Missions of Madness

Star Trek: The Key Collection #4

Star Trek: The Manga

Star Wars
Boba Fett: Death, Lies & Treachery
Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire
Boba Fett: Man with a Mission
Chewbacca
Crimson Empire
Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood
Dark Empire I
Dark Empire II
Dark Force Rising
Darth Maul
Honor & Duty
Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal
Jango Fett
Jango Fett: Open Season
Jedi vs. Sith
Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand
Outlander
Rite of Passage
Splinter of the Mind's Eye
Union
Vader's Quest
Zam Wesell

Star Wars: Clone Wars
• #1: The Defense of Kamino
• #2: Victories & Sacrifices
• #3: Last Stand on Jabiim

Star Wars: Dark Times
• #1: The Path to Nowhere

Star Wars: Empire
• #1: Betrayal
• #2: Darklighter
• #3: The Imperial Perspective
• #4: The Heart of the Rebellion
• #5: Allies & Adversaries
• #6: In the Shadows of Their Fathers

Star Wars: Infinities
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• #1: Commencement

Star Wars: Legacy
• #1: Broken

Star Wars: Rebellion
• #1: My Brother, My Enemy

Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron
• #4: The Warrior Princess
• #6: In the Empire's Service
• #8: Masquerade
• #9: Mandatory Retirement

Storm

Street Magik

Streets of Glory

Struwwelpeter

Supergirl
Many Happy Returns
Wings
• #1: Power
• #2: Candor
• #3: Identity

Superman
Distant Fires
The Doomsday Wars
The Earth Stealers
Fantastic Four: The Infinite Destruction
For All Seasons
The Last God of Krypton
Last Son of Earth
Mann & Superman
The Odyssey
Peace on Earth
Red Son
The Superman Monster
Vs. Aliens
Where is Thy Sting?

Superman & Batman:
Adventures: World's Finest
Generations
Generations 2
Legends of the World's Finest
Supergirl
vs. Aliens & Predator
World's Finest
World's Funnest

The Sword
• #1: Fire

Tag
• #1: Tag
• #2: Cursed

Tales of Error

Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #4

Tenth Muse: The Odyssey

Thessaly, Witch for Hire

30 Days of Night
• #1: 30 Days of Night
• #2: Dark Days
• #3: Return to Barrow
• #5: Three Tales
• #7: Eben & Stella
• #8: Red Snow
• #9: Beyond Barrow

Thorgal: The Archers

Tomb Raider
• #1: Saga of the Medusa Mask
• #2: Mystic Artifacts

The Trouble with Girls
Vol. 2

The Twelve
Vol. 1

28 Days Later: The Aftermath

Ultimate Adventures: One Tin Soldier

The Ultimates
• 1.1: Super-Human
• 1.2: Homeland Security
• 2.1: Gods & Monsters

Ultimate Fantastic Four
• #1: The Fantastic
• #2: Doom
• #3: N-Zone
• #4: Inhuman
• #5: Crossover
• #6: Frightful
• #7: God War

Ultimate Spider-Man
• #2: Learning Curve
• #3: Double Trouble
• #4: Legacy
• #5: Public Scrutiny
• #6: Venom
• #7: Irresponsible
• #8: Cats & Kings
• #10: Hollywood
• #11: Carnage
• #12: Superstars
• #13: Hobgoblin
• #16: Deadpool
• #17: Clone Saga
• #19: Death of a Goblin

Ultimate X-Men
• #1: The Tomorrow People
• #2: Return to Weapon X
• #3: World Tour
• #4: Hellfire & Brimstone
• #5: Ultimate War
• #7: Blockbuster
• #8: New Mutants

Ultra: Seven Days

Uncle Sam

The Underworld Railroad

Unknown Soldier

Usagi Yojimbo
#2: Samurai
#5: Lone Goat & Kid

Valkyrie

Vampirella
Nowheresville
Revelations

Vampi
• #1: Switchblade Kiss
• #2: Tainted Love

Wake the Dead

Wanted

Welcome to Tranquility
Vol. 1
Vol. 2

Whiskey Dickel, International Cowgirl

Why Are You Doing This?

Witchblade
• #1: Origins
• #2: Revelations
• #10 / #1: Witch Hunt
• #11 / #2: Awakenings
• #12 / #3: Gods & Monsters

Witchcraft

Witches: The Gathering

Wolverine
Origin
The End

Wonder Woman
• #1: Gods & Mortals
Spirit of Truth

Wynonna Earp

Xena, Warrior Princess
• #1: Contest of Pantheons
• #2: Dark Xena

The X-Files
Volume 2

X-Men
The End #1: Dreamers & Demons
The End #2: Heroes & Martyrs
The End #3: Men & X-Men

X-23: Innocence Lost

Y: The Last Man
• #1: Unmanned
• #2: Cycles
• #3: One Small Step
• #4: Safeword
• #5: Ring of Truth
• #6: Girl on Girl
• #7: Paper Dolls
• #8: Kimono Dragons
• #9: Motherland
• #10: Whys & Wherefores

Zatanna: Everyday Magic

Zombie

Zombies Calling

Zombie Tales
• #1: Zombie Tales
• #2: Oblivion

Zorro
• #1: The Lady Wears Red
• #2: Zorro's Renegades