Shortpacked! on DC Comics' new version of Starfire.

This is just one of several reasons why I'm not buying your comics, DC. Here's hoping that your corporate overlords are paying attention to the word-of-mouth you're generating!

Jalila Essaidi is trying to develop bullet-proof human skin.

So...Luke Cage, here we come? Or possibly some Spider-variant, since this involves the spider-goats.

We have a large container in the bottom of our fridge. It is full of future-bread and I have now obtained the knowledge of how to properly transform it from future-bread into bread, and how to make more future-bread to replace the future-bread that has been turned into bread.

This means that I can have fresh bread within an hour and a half of ( Read more... )

So, as you may or may not know, my local comic book shop has moved. Amusingly, they're tearing down the building it was in and replacing it with a library ( Read more... )

Go click on this link and sign the letter here. Because Don't Ask Don't Tell is goddamned stupid ( Read more... )

I wore a pretty dress today! It was exciting, and I was cute. And it warmed up enough that I could take the sweater off and just wear the sundress ( Read more... )

In retrospect, I shouldn't have waited as long as I did to write my "Runaways Is Totally Part of American Gothic Literature You Guys!" essay. I should have known that the source material would be distracting ( Read more... )

-Read Lousia May Alcott's Behind a Mask on Sunday. I liked it a lot, surprisingly. Turns out that LMA preferred writing "blood and thunder" stories, it's just that sentimental Little Women-type stories sold better. We've been discussing Behind a Mask all week in Gothic Lit, and Wednesday's eighty-minutes of class was spent almost entirely on ( Read more... )

Finally saw Watchmen. It was worth seeing once, but I don't think I'd want to watch it again -- the additional gore seemed unnecessary when the comic was already plenty violent.

( Rambling spoilers go here. )

Man, I'm going to LOVE Fridays. All done at 11.20AM, on top of the usual "Fridays are awesome"? Winzor.

My Gothic Lit. professor now has the first trade of Runaways. And she apparently has a kid at home who is devours graphic novels/comic books. Mwahahahahaha, mine is an evil laugh ( Read more... )