It's been a while since I had one of these, so here goes:

30 Days of Female Awesome, Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character

Modesty BlaiseIn order to explain this one, I first have to talk a little about what kind of media I grew up with. Now, at the age of ten or so, in addition to living in a cardboard box on the road, I also had no ( Read more... )

So, in other things that have happened, my brother gave me a belated birthday present when we were in Denmark. Apparently he'd gone into The Pocket Bookstore, which carries genre paperbacks and comics, and asked for a gift to his sister who "is involved in Fantastisk Filmfestival and likes trashy American TV shows." I don't know if those were his ( Read more... )

My collected edition of Valhalla albums 1-3 has arrived, and I'm loving it immensely. If I ever get a scanner, I'm very tempted to make a scanlation of Thor's Bridal Journey, because it's just as awesome as I remember.

Meanwhile, I couldn't help uploading some popular culture nods that Madsen & co threw in:

( Muppet nod )

...Pearls before Swine makes a much similar point.


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Scandinavia and the World had a Valhalla tribute in their Halloween special, which is awesome enough on its own. Even more awesome is the fact that they linked to a YouTube video of the Valhalla cartoon, in Danish with English subtitles. YAY! This is such an awesome comic, and I'm so glad to be able to share its awesomeness with the non- ( Read more... )

Gacked from musesfoolselenak, taraljc, and possibly others.

List 10 (or however many) platonic male/female relationships in fiction that you enjoy. My attempt at rules ( Read more... )

Hokus & Pokus takes on a slashy note, and Pokus being what she is, the result is horrifying ( Read more... )

fox1013 has an interesting post that ranges from yuletide to Heroes to other things, and I made a comment stating things I had meant to state about Heroes in my LJ, so I figured I might as well re-post the comment here.

( cut for spoilers up to 2x03 of Heroes )

Am nearing the end of Carnivale now. Only three eps to go.

Dear self, when something very positive happens to one of your favourite characters, something so positive it makes him holler in joy, the appropriate reaction as a viewer is not, "Drat. Oh God I wish they hadn't gone there ( Read more... )

I have a new favourite comic, Hokus & Pokus, about a hedgehog bimbo who's in love with a snarky cat. It's in Swedish, but I've decided to post some of their conversations here just for the lovely WTF-factor they have ( Read more... )