1) We're back from the comics store, where we snagged our bag and the new collections of Chew and Fables, yet no one at the store informed me that ursulav 's comic series Digger has just been nominated for a Hugo award. I had to learn it just now on the innertubes. Is this the kind of customer service we must settle for?

2) While out and about buying ( Read more... )

Elsewhere on Teh Interwebs, I am engaged in a discussion with a real live Marlovian.

No, not the uber-powerful aliens from Jack L. Chalker's Well World books--those are Markovians.

So why am I chatting with a Marlovian? 
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^This question, first posed by Alyosha (the monk who wants to be a pop singer) in Christopher Durang's wonderful play The Idiots Karamazov, came to mind over the past week as spuffy and I have been wading through the first six collections of Cable & Deadpool, loaned to us by the lovely and talented likeadeuce .

I've certainly enjoyed watching Fabian Nicieza ( Read more... )