Originally published at How to Crush Without Being Crushed. You can comment here or there.

Relationship humor is a staple of a good many web comics. Few get it quite as snarky, damaged and, ultimately, fantastic as RK Milholland over at Something Positive.

This particular comic is quite appropriate, dealing with those early celebrity crushes we all ( Read more... )

Since my feet have been in constant pain for the past week or so, I figured it was really time to get the new shoes I should have gotten weeks ago ( Read more... )

Finished reading it ( Read more... )

Pissed off at the news for last night's top story being this whole John Edwards sex "scandal" (which was actually over a year ago). The local CBS news dedicated over six minutes to that piece of useless crap.

The next story got barely a minute and a half, kind of an "Oh, and by the way, Russia and Georgia are at war with one another, and next, the ( Read more... )

Originally published at Durosia.com. You can comment here or there.

I got hooked on comic books at a young age. My father is to blame for that.

Unlike many of his peers, he didn't throw away (or have thrown away) all of his old comic books. There weren't many, just a couple dozen issues of Detective Comics, Superman, Batman and a handful of other ( Read more... )

Originally published at Durosia.com. You can comment here or there.

The other day, Yves Rossy took to the skies in Switzerland with a winged backpack loaded with four mini-jet engines.

He swooped and soared for a handful of minutes before cutting the engines and pulling the cord on his parachute and drifting to the ground.

It's pretty awesome, if I ( Read more... )

I just got back in touch with a buddy of mine from high school.

He's just as awesome as ever.

Need proof?

He's a web developer, an artist and a comic book fan. Putting the two together, he and a friend launched ComicVine at the end of last year. Even better, he's a super villainI'm gonna have to play around a bit with that site later ( Read more... )

Buddy of mind sent me a link to some art of the Battlestar crew as Simpsons characters. Fun stuff, there. Neat community (pantsketch) all around for anyone who like browsing art. I even bounced back the artist's (Dylan Meconis) main page. She's got some awesome stuff.

I found this one particularly awesome (for a number of reasons ( Read more... )

The Comic Book Challenge, put on by Platinum Studios and a San Diego television station is a very tempting contest.

Unfortunately, it seems to be focused only on artist/writers and not artists and writers ( Read more... )

Those of you out there who are really into comics--not just the characters and the stories but the medium itself--probably already know Scott McCloud. He wrote Understanding Comics, considered by many to be one of (if not The) definitive (comic) book about the comic book.

I just stumbled across his website for the first time. There is a lot of ( Read more... )