SWEET UNDEAD SON OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN GOD, GIVE ME A POSTER OF THIS.

Somewhere hell is feeling a distinct chill. Why? Because Planetary #27 was finally solicited.

The very last issue.

We've only been waiting...three years for it?

This is it. Jakita Wagner, the Drummer, and Elijah Snow finally come to an end.

But the cover.

( TREAT YOUR OCULAR ARRAY TO SOME SERIOUS COLLAGETASTIC BEAUTY. Click this cut. You will not regret it. GIVE ME A POSTER OF THIS. )

There appears to be a new and quite flagitious spammer scam afoot on LJ. Ahoy, flist! Listen up and monitor your inboxes closely!

So, for the last couple of weeks I've been getting what appear to be e-mails from registered LJ users announcing that I've received an e-mail greeting card.

This is what drops into my inbox:- In the "From" field, there ( Read more... )

I've been glued to NPR for the past two days listening to the Sotomayor hearings. Thus far they mostly consist of "YOU DARED TO BE ETHNIC. HOW DARE YOU ACKNOWLEDGE RACE AND ETHNICITY?", then a rebuttal from a more liberal Senator, lather, rinse, excoriate, essay another rebuttal, repeat ( Read more... )

You know what, screw it. In this case, pictures are worth more than a thousand words - triple that and you get close to the gut punch they carry.

In the Comics That Made Us Cry post I cited some of my own examples -- and wow, flist, you stepped up to the plate and cited examples that I either should have thought of or clearly need to read ( Read more... )

After yesterday's negativity, screw it. Have a preemptive Saturday Grab Bag Post instead of a Sunday Grab Bag Post ( Read more... )

Regarding my post yesterday over on Scans Daily 2.0 featuring Jeff Parker's problematic choices in rendering chromatic characters in Dark Reign: The Hood #1, dear God.

The racefail.

Nipping at its heels are this and this. Not only do we get a "you're looking for things to get pissed off about" slot on the bingo card, but we also get a take on ( Read more... )

The thoroughly dashing derigueur, who shall henceforth be known as my Boyfriend/Consort-To-Be in Australia (if you guys can have Girlfriends in Canada, *I* can have a Boyfriend in Australia), has just had his day of nativitiy. This is a gladdening development, because it means that I get to squee about how glad I am that I met him on LJ ( Read more... )

I had a spectacularly productive day yesterday. I spent a good fifteen minutes gazing out my kitchen window because two squirrels were engaging in gladitorial combat on a telephone pole across the street, replete with feinting, ducking, weaving, and parrying. Then one of the squirrels decided to make a thrilling leap from the telephone pole to ( Read more... )

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

After you read this post, some of you will finally - finally - get this icon.

In yesterday's The Boys of Supernatural vs. The Marvel Universe post, wherein it was demonstrated that the SPN boys need to do a little more work before they get out of the minor leagues, acherontia_styx made the mistake of asking me who and what ( Read more... )