One for snowking

It appears that the social network of superheroes in the Marvel Universe is as sexist as the real world's.

Discuss.

www.walkscore.com ( Read more... )

Read about it here...a bit Spoilerish in places.

Thoroughly entertaining, and seems to pull in some of the comedy concepts of productions like Shrek with the darker humour and magic-realism of The Sandman. It's hard to judge an entire (and ongoing) series from one issue, but it does feel more serialized than overarching narrative, in the way The ( Read more... )

The Frankfurter Allgemeine from 19 Mai had an article on this. In any event, Tim und Struppi/Tintin's Herge was born 100 years ago.

Apparently, this is the identical birthdate for Laurence Olivier.

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I can help feeling the Belgians are milking the Herge legend for every last drop. I mean, what's next, wheels of Herge cheese? ;-)

Obit for the 70s Batman cartoonist in my local paper.

NPR interview with the Crumbs. You may be able to listen to it online.

1. If the young need the religious aspects of Christmas explained to them, why are we bringing Jesus into it? It is genuinely much more the hedonist materialist celebration bolted onto the parasitic monotheism that stole a proper pagan winter solstice event. Unless you're going to get all "smashing up the money-changers at the Temple of Solomon" ( Read more... )

Oh vicious temptation, why why why?!?

Please someone tell me its naff, not worth the tissue paper it's printed on, the very opposite of what anyone should properly expect from Alan Moore!

Thanks to Myrna for pointing it out. Grrr!

Regarding Lost Girls

So I caught PBS's program Tintin e Moi last night. Surprisingly good (I suppose I shouldn't be that surprised, POV is a rather good program), and though I knew Catholicism, Fascism, and the war years all contributed as influences to Herge's Tintin work, I didn't realise where and how, precisely ( Read more... )