I watched the documentary "Stripped" last night, and enjoyed it. But it was trying to do too many things to really be a good documentary. The part I enjoyed most was hearing the artists talk about their process for "being funny" every day ( Read more... )

One drink if ( Read more... )

Comics I've loved recently:

Power Nap: It's about a world full of sleepless, and the monsters in dreams. Irregularly updated, but I'm hooked to see what they'll do next.

Nimona: It's about villany! And an impertinent shapeshifting sidekick. It won the Cartoonist Studio Prize (for webcomics) this year.

Strong Female Protagonist: A young ( Read more... )

Fabletown and Beyond will be a convention entirely designed to discuss, promote and celebrate comic books that fall within the Mythic Fiction realm in Rochester, MN this March ( Read more... )

Marissa brought up a major hole I'd completely missed in Iron Man, movie version (+ Iron Man 2, and Captain America for that matter ( Read more... )

"My ill-formed wish rebooted the DC Universe" doesn't really have the kick of "I might have created all of science fiction fandom with fairy magic."

The entry for Hammerspace, the dimension powering oversized weapons and heroes without pockets, notes an example:

In Warren Ellis's Planetary, Elijah Snow discovers that the Four invaded an alternate universe, slaughtered everyone living there, and turned it into an armory. A cruel way to invent Hammerspace.
It's better than that: Elijah Snow ( Read more... )

I'm so happy that today's multiverse contains an Orbital!

XKCD describes the typical college web site. How about Gustavus?

Items on Front PageCampus photo slideshow: yes ( Read more... )

I watched about half of "Fantastic Four" last night, since it's on HD video-on-demand. Free is almost cheap enough. I'd already watched the sequel so I knew what I was getting into ( Read more... )