There -- I've just finished a major milestone in the monumental "sort the comics and figure out which ones to get rid of" project. I've finished with CerebusCerebus is the single largest title in my collection. It's bad enough that it's so long -- it's kinda-sorta a "miniseries", in that the overall length was planned from early on, but it ran ( Read more... )

[There's a lot of good stuff coming out, so it's time to get back into the habit of The Review of Obscure Books ( Read more... )

As a lot of you know, I am the possessor of a lot of Stuff. Among that Stuff is the most idiotically large comic-book collection of anybody I know, which I've been accumulating since 1977. Not collecting -- just buying, reading, and putting in boxes. I don't know if anyone reading this aside from Kate has actually seen all of it. Yes, you're ( Read more... )

(Pardon a mild grouse ( Read more... )

Putting a link here for once, instead of in Facebook, because I think more people are likely to be interested: check out the new comic Atomic Size Matters, which is pretty delightful. It was written by a PhD candidate who was trying to explain her work to her friends and family. So she went back to first principles, and explained the concept she ( Read more... )

We went to see Guardians of the Galaxy last night. My overall review is that it was fine but not great -- more on the level with the Thor movies than the Captain America ones. It's fun and more accurate to the comics than average, but there isn't much there there. It is very much an origin story, and rather self-consciously leaves both the ( Read more... )

[This weird ramble is kind of about programming, but this time it's introductory-level and generally useful, instead of the wizard-level stuff I usually talk about. We are going to teach a few basic programming concepts using my comic book collection as a motivating real-world example ( Read more... )

Thanks to unicornpearlz for forwarding me this crucial must-read spoiler about the upcoming new X-Men series...

Okay, here's one where I suspect that some of my friends have useful ideas.

Some of you know the_resa from her earlier career -- under the name Teri S. Wood, she was responsible for a bunch of great comics, particularly her long-running strip The Cartoonist in Amazing Heroes, and her epic science fiction story Wandering Star. Resa is dipping her toe back ( Read more... )

Those who have been around comics for a long time may remember Resa Challender (aka Teri S. Wood), for various fabulous comics -- in particular, her masterpiece Wandering Star. For those looking for some new stuff from her, note that she's starting an occasional webcomic, Yet Untitled. Not terribly deep and complex, just some observations of life ( Read more... )