Picked up my subscriptions at Ultimate Comics yesterday.  They opened a new store on Ninth Street a couple of weeks ago that's a lot bigger than the one at Northgate, but the guy who usually works at the Ninth Street store, John, is a total jerk (as opposed to Eric at Northgate, the guy who gave me my Colossus figure for $20.  I'm a big fan of Eric ( Read more... )

So. To celebrate myself being amazing, I went to Ultimate Comics and bought these figures:


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All the sudden I'm feeling really disconnected. I was trying to figure out who I wanted to invite to see some movies tomorrow with me and Katie, and I realized - the people I want to invite don't live here. They live in Arizona (1), or New Hampshire(3), or Asheville(3), or Wisconsin(3). They're in West Virginia(1) and Nova Scotia(1) and Panama(5 ( Read more... )

If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal ( Read more... )