Rare pairings!  Following on the heels of the other day's Maleficent/Darth Vader comic, a couple more cartoons themed round Star Wars.  I saw these ages ago and couldn't find them again till now.

BFFs. As I remember reading in a kids' book called If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow, "If there is no happy ending, make one out ( Read more... )

It gets harder and harder to start posting again every time I stop, because so much happens that I haven't told you about and I have this feeling of I MUST SUM UP EVERYTHING that would sound silly if I tried to explain it.  But the missing-friendslist got stronger than the feeling that I shouldn't skip, just now ( Read more... )

Jason Thompson has been posting some exquisite, breathtakingly detailed drawings of Lovecraft characters and related figures recently.  It's only fair I share them with you.

G-rated or not terribly disturbing pictures:

Fish people from Innsmouth, helping one of their own out of a human disguise
Cthulhu emerging from a cave
The Great G'tsubya, a ( Read more... )

I went to see The Adventures of Tintin alone because I wanted to be able to walk out of the show if I didn't like it.  Well, I loved it.  Not putting any of this under a cut, because there are no major spoilers--the only people who would care about such minor details as I reveal are the same people who know those things already from the comic books ( Read more... )

Anybody have recommendations for where I might start?  There's such a massive body of work on every major character that it's a little puzzling to know how to begin.  I'd prefer a good-sized collection or two, something I might get on interlibrary loan.  I am but a poor fan.

I think I'd like the Fantastic Four and Doctor Strange, Thor, and the ( Read more... )

asakiyume  linked to this several years ago, and I feel the need for a return trip:


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Have a look at some beautiful and refreshing black-and-white line art.  These comics are a blast from the past.  I discovered Jason Thompson's work on a graphic-novel version of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" back in, oh man, 2003 or thereabouts.  There was a little of the art available online, just enough to tantalize me.  He was about to ( Read more... )

Found via Jeph Jacques' Twitter feed on Questionable Content, so it comes with the recommendation of the great and good in the webcomics world.

I'm of two minds about this comic.  "It is elegant and it leaves one unsatisfied", and that both engages me and makes me cross.  Mostly, though, I like it.  The deep-forest setting, the farmers and the ( Read more... )

So in my continued rampage through the work of Mike Mignola, I bought a collection of his short comics, The Amazing Screw-On Head And Other Curious Objects.  I also bought a couple volumes of Hellboy, which didn't do much for me, though maybe I should try stuff from later in the series.  As for Amazing Screw-On Head, it's that rarity, a collection ( Read more... )

Do you have a book, or film, or comic series or obscure TV show, that you love so much you want to shill it to everyone you meet?  One that seems to have been written specifically for you, to push all your favorite buttons, even though you know damn well the author has never met you?  One that's so much fun and so rich and strange that even its ( Read more... )