a. I have been in a slump the last couple of weeks. Possibly due to it getting dark so early, mostly due to lots of other things.

b. I have a day off today, in the middle of the week, because it is Veteran's day. Some around these parts tend to take this as a "floating holiday" so they can have the day after Thanksgiving off, but we don't get that ( Read more... )

1. Have been reminded that today is better than three years ago. Needed that reminder.

2. Post-fic-posting blues. I always feel like I'LL NEVER WRITE AGAIN or something. It'll pass.

3. Spent today sticking very tiny labels onto very old audio cassettes. Some dating back to the early seventies. a)my fingers are very dry now and b)I feel all misty and ( Read more... )

and my comics arrived! And it's hot out. And humid. And I was thinking of going to get my hair cut, but right now my plans involve reading me some Hellboy and Birds of Prey. And venturing out tomorrow, when it's supposed to be ten degrees cooler but stormy. Whatever, a trade off. I'd rather get wet than unbearably sweaty, which probably makes no ( Read more... )

So, I don't know anything about the characters (yeah, what else is new) but I liked the first new Batgirl. I'm gonna have to add it to my list of comics I actually purchase. It felt a little like if Buffy became Batgirl instead of the slayer. Nice contrast to Batwoman, though. Apparently, I'm turning into a DC reader. Huh.

I'm half way through Things From Another World's nick and dent 60% off trade paperbacks list and I've already gathered 19 items and a total of $150 in my shopping cart ( Read more... )

But I think I decided I really don't like Matt Fraction's take on Iron Man. ( my opinion and minor spoilers enclosed. )

Matt Fraction won an Eisner for Iron Man? Really?

Did I get that right? And Larocca shared it?

WTMFH?

Who's going to the San Diego Comic Con?

I know of:

prosodi 
dafnap

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creative teams between Marvel Divas and Gotham Sirens? Because seriously, the writing of the first issue of Sirens is fun and punchy and not particularly sexist nor cliched, but the art, while not bad, is fairly heavy on the T&A. Like, whoa.

Perhaps the artist of Divas wouldn't be the best match for the Gotham Sirens characters, but it would be a ( Read more... )

More accurately, Why Girls Don't Go To Comic Shops for Their Comics.

( and I even like this comic shop. )