Comments | ps238principal: Mysteries of the criminal kind, and accounting, which is the same thing, sometimes...

ps238principal

Mysteries of the criminal kind, and accounting, which is the same thing, sometimes...

Jul 07, 2010 01:43

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Re: Mysteries, etc anonymous July 7 2010, 13:25:07 UTC

If you are a fan of detective stories -- in particular, Sherlock Holmes -- you might want to check out Will Thomas's "Barker and Llewelyn" series. It's very Holmesian -- detective, sidekick, 1880s London -- but it has some neat twists and a lot of color (or "colour," I suppose, since it's set in England).

The narrator, Thomas Llewelyn, is a very sympathetic character, too.

Jon

Re: Mysteries, etc anonymous July 7 2010, 18:52:43 UTC

Oh, thank you! I've been wanting to start a new series and that one sounds like my cup of tea!

-J.T./Sihaya

Chase-Goose 1boringperson July 7 2010, 14:46:57 UTC

That "gorilla head" is a guy's chin, upside-down with fake eyes on it.

Re: Chase-Goose ps238principal July 7 2010, 20:31:12 UTC

Ah, I see. It wasn't on my screen very long, as I most often died while trying to hit the correct "jump" key. :)

miyaa99 July 7 2010, 17:00:56 UTC

Scooby Doo as a kid version of Leverage? Is that what you're implying?

frustratedpilot July 7 2010, 17:10:44 UTC

No more IESB.net FFN? *goes looking for black clothes*

ps238principal July 7 2010, 20:31:45 UTC

I'll work 'em into the archive, and I'll probably still do movie-based strips; they're quite fun.

frustratedpilot July 8 2010, 05:32:54 UTC

I have this vision of the various FFN and Backward Compatible characters sitting in a waiting room playing cards while their 'toons are being set in the archives.

Fireworks anonymous July 7 2010, 17:25:37 UTC

I have to side with your wife on this. PVC-based launchers can be dangerous! One little misfire, and you have plastic shards flying all over the place. You'll shoot your eye out kid. Now cardboard tubes (easily sourced from fireworks supply sites on the internet in various sizes), don't have that problem...

Re: Fireworks ps238principal July 7 2010, 20:35:05 UTC

Good advice!

And mine was largely facetious. We did make PVC tube launchers, but only for the standard whoosh-pop bottle rockets, putting some of that floral-arrangement foam in the bottom for the stick to rest in.

That didn't stop some acquaintances of mine from having rather large firework wars. These were mostly richer kids with access to our town's golf course. They attached various kinds of patriotic armaments to golf carts and tooled around the greens, being a hazard to just about everything except each other (the accuracy of fireworks is pretty bad unless you're aiming for the sky).