Whenever terrible things happen, we will find heroes. We will find ordinary people who are stronger than they ever suspected. We will find things to make us laugh, even in the darkest times, and we will find ways to keep our spirits up. This will always happen, simply because we are human. And it will happen everywhere, because we all have more in ( Read more... )

I think this might be the best comic strip about Derrida that I've ever read. (It's also about Poe, but I've probably seen better ones about him ( Read more... )

Apparently, Spider-Man has fought a Nazi made out of bees.

(Radioactive bees, obviously.)

Some of you reading this may enjoy "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." (I know I do!) And if you do--and especially if you like comic books as well--you should know about Buffy, season 8. It's a comic book that starts off shortly after the ending of season 7 (which, incidentally, makes it concurrent with season 5 of "Angel," and certain characters from ( Read more... )

Just watched the movie Fantastic Four. I didn't think it was as bad as I'd heard from others, but then I'm not exactly a hardcore FF fan. It was, however, filled with some "Okay, who didn't see that coming? Anyone? Bueller?" moments ( Read more... )

P.S. SATURDAY IS FREE COMIC BOOK DAY HOLY COW AWESOME ( Read more... )

So I am approximately the world's slowest meme-follower. Meh. At any rate, there was a meme waaaay back where you went to this dollmaker site, made a doll of yourself, and then changed some elements of the doll to make yourself a Mary Sue.

When I first did this, my hair was still blonde:
( Hey, it's me! )

Man, it was pouring out there today. All those people coming in for their sandwiches at lunchtime were at various levels of drenched. Luckily, the rain started after I began work and ended before I left.

Today was a good day for half-price chai latte mix, bread pudding, and roasted garlicOn imdb's main page, I saw that three comic-book-related ( Read more... )

If you've ever read Alan Moore's Watchmen, you should check out these cookies. If you haven't read it, this image might be useful in understanding the cookies, at least a little. (The last two are not from Watchmen; they're from the DC Universe.)

^ My fortune cookie fortune. It fits this morning. I went walking and ended up skipping and walking backwards and skipping backwards, just to see if I still could (I can!), and walking along high curb-type things like balance beams and lying on the tree-surrounding bench and drumming on the tree-surrounding table and grinning and saying hi to ( Read more... )