From about five days ago...

Chad: Hey, what do you make of this:

Can You Be a Hot Girl and a Nerd?

JoJo: Augh. Yeah...I've been reading about that little kerfluffle earlier this week. Um...Yeah. This kind of bickering is going to help no-one ( Read more... )

I picked up a copy of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne this past weekend. Written by Grant Morrison, and featuring a different art team on each of its six issues, this was one of DC's big blockbuster stories for 2010.

I didn't like it.

( And here's why... )

Both my good friends-and-fellow-cartoonists cowhatninja and Patrick have been recommending that I read Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Bakuman - comic about two young men trying to break into the world of professional comics, with the specific lofty goal of becoming popular in major publisher Shueisha's primo magazine Weekly Shonen Jump (the same magazine ( Read more... )

(All the magic is 'cause Disney.)

An appendix to my earlier post on Tangled, in response to a comment. I'd mentioned that colorism is a thing that exists, and exists a lot in movies (and other art forms) and this is one of those things that impacts the viewing of this (and other) movies, partially creating the context in which we view them.

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Saw Tangled last night. It was a lot better than I had expected! Most of it was actually really, really awesome!...But, oh, there were some frustrating aspects.

Detailed and spoiler-filled thoughts behind the cut.


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A conversation with Xander, as we discuss the phenomenon that is Mr. Mark Millar. Due to the nature of the subject matter, everything has been placed below the cut. It is not pretty. Conversation is occasionally edited slightly from the original, for clarity. Book quotes are also included, because I didn't wanna scan a lot of pages, and they're ( Read more... )

Well. They've just released a trailer for the Jonah Hex movie. And It. Looks. Terrible. Let's watch...

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...There's obviously a lot that is wrong with this situation. When I first heard that they were making a Jonah Hex movie, I got really excited. He's a character that really appeals to me because he is 1.) ugly, 2.) an unpersonable son of a bitch ( Read more... )

So...a wedding date has been set and it's a little earlier than was previously anticipated. Gettin' hitched this October. OBOY!!

This is what it's gonna look like:


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Hmm...Whatever was going on with the comic navigation appears to have corrected itself. Weird.

But, anyway, here is a new page!


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