This right here? This makes me tingle with delight to be a loud & proud female gamer / geek / sci-fi fan / comics nerd.

This is what my section of the audience is capable of: nearly double the $25,000 backing goal in just two days (as of right now, it's hit about 42k). Are you listening, DC? Marvel? Smaller publishers and distributors? We will ( Read more... )

Another nerd-rec: there is a comic book shop with a rather unassuming exterior near the restaurant, but inside it's kinda like the TARDIS in that it's way huger than it looks and full of shiny things & amazements. Picked up the first printed issue of Nonplayer by Nate Simpson ( Read more... )

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Staring Off Into Space With: "Eleanor Rigby" covered by Doxology

I need more easy-access tops.

Not because I like being topless (and I do, actually, when hanging around indoors), but because after I take showers I will inevitably comb my hair such that it WON'T dry like Johnny Rzeznik on a bad day, and then I'll wanna open the curtains or go outside, which requires that my bewbs NOT be chillin' out for all to ( Read more... )

...It has just occurred to me for the first time in my life that, while we are wont to slap an X and an S next to each other on clothing tags and expect other people to look at it and say "extra-small" in their minds, if you pronounce the letters themselves it clearly means "excess."

Anyhoo, what was I actually gonna post about? Oh yes CHICAGO ♥ ♥ ♥ ( Read more... )

Just got out of third-year culture and I am done for the day. But I have a mission now.

Their teacher and I have been trying to coax them into discussing or at least thinking about the differences between Japanese & Western visual media - i.e. movies & comics. Today I had a bunch of images juxtaposed for them up on the overhead. Manga & graphic ( Read more... )

Fine, I will write things here ARE YOU HAPPY LIVEJOURNAL >:|

Someone in my 24-Hour Comic Book Challenge circle had the first issue of this along with them and it kept me awake while waiting for my 2nd wind:
FreakAngels

I am a sucker for steampunkish things, especially of the post-apocalyptic flavor. I'm not saying I like it - if it moved a lot faster ( Read more... )