So I am house-sitting starting today, and there is no internet (I am posting from my phone, but I will get myself to a cafe tomorrow to leech internets) BUT to entertain myself while here I brought my oofuri dvds along with a disc binder full of dvd type things. In going through it, I discovered that I still have some old hong kong badsub dvds of ( Read more... )

OMG it was super-fast but now there is ANOTHER CHAPTER of Ao no Exorcist up online and it is amazing. AMAZING ( Read more... )

I was just reminded of something today.

My friends who are reading or watching Hourou Musuko but who aren't familiar with American comics... and my friends who aren't consuming either but who are interested in gender issues and sexuality...

may I recommend reading American Virgin? It has internal art by Becky Cloonan, who is amazing. It also ( Read more... )

Oh, Tim and Kon.

One page from Red Robin behind the ( cut. )

I picked up the trade of Jonathan Hickman's the nightly NEWS today. I picked it up because I think transHUMAN is awesome and Stuart Immonen was one of the guys with blurbs on the back (the others being Andy Diggle, Brian Michael Bendis, and Brad Meltzer)I haven't really been thinking much about adding Hickman to my List of Comics Creators Who I ( Read more... )

It's a massive icon post ( Read more... )

So, I'm going to share with all of you a portion of the presentation I'll be giving on Saturday at UF.

Here is a page I have illustrating the fact that heroines in comics occasionally have their femininity reaffirmed via girl-talk.

It's Dinah and Barbara talking about delicious shrimp.

This one is a LOLcrappy photoshopped version of the same ( Read more... )

The other day I was in the bookstore, and I picked up a book of essays on Batman, one of which was about Robin as "innocent bystander".

It was short, but there was a particular sentence wherein the author spoke of the death of Tim's family and of Steph as beneficial to Bruce, because it allowed him to be (for Tim) the protector he wanted when he ( Read more... )

Oh, my. Fanfic. I ... don't know if I like it. The next section, well.. that should be fun. The chase is on!

DCU/AU, PG-13-ish for implied content, the first of many. 1364 words.

( By his eighth birthday, Tim had solved the biggest mystery in Gotham. He might have even been satisfied, if he hadn't known that he couldn't tell anyone about it. )

So, school today did not involve learning of any kind. It instead involved fanfiction. What the hell! When did I start writing fic again? Seriously, it's all news to me. :o

These two pieces of fic have decided that they are further chapters that come after this little oneshot, that I wrote not too terrible long ago. The chapter progression is ( Read more... )