There are a few half-remembered stories I read as a child that even the Internet has so far not been able to help me track down, and one of them was an issue of Harvey Comics' Wendy, the Good Little Witch which in retrospect was kind of an adaptation of "Feathertop," my favourite Hawthorne tale ( Read more... )

Yesterday copper badge was asked this on Tumblr:

http://copperbadge.tumblr.com/post/116545093736/sam-a-bunch-the-mcu-fics-i-read-mention-that-tonyI added a response, but there was a character limit, so I want to make my own post and LJ still strikes me as a better location for a wall o'text ( Read more... )

So the other night we went to hear Jill Lapore talk about her book The Secret History of Wonder Woman. Lapore is from outside comics fandom, and it's one of those cases where a fresh angle on the subject is very useful -- her specialty is political history, and her take on the bondage imagery in Marsden's original WW comics is that they were meant ( Read more... )

Andrew: If they get rid of the black boots with white trim maybe it won't be so bad ( Read more... )

A webcomic by Rachel Kahn, In which a young artist (who seems to suffer depression and anxiety) gets advice from Conan, and not the Arnold Schwartzenegger version, but Howard's original character. When she asks, "What do I do when it feels like the universe is out to get me?" he considers this, then replies: "First, decide if it is a worthy ( Read more... )

Dreamt that someone told me theengineer had died unexpectedly. I trust that this is not, in fact, the case ( Read more... )

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Apparently there was an Archie comic in the 1970s in which Betty got amnesia and toured with a carnival as a mud wrestler.....

So - Joss proves once again he can write for large ensemble casts. Everyone got their moment (or several) but the standouts for me were: Black Widow being a particularly Whedonesque sort of femme fatale; Bruce Banner as a rumpled genius professor whose laid-back manner belies the creature everyone keeps waiting to spring out; Agent *Phil* Coulson ( Read more... )

Visit to the doctor's office determined that I've been forgetting to give him some of his pills, which is probably the main source of his various recent problems; good - I can fix that, at least ( Read more... )