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Indefinite Leave to Remain
As I said a while ago, I'm on Twitter.
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new Captain Marvel revealed
The images released by Marvel released show Danvers in a new costume, one more directly tied to the red and black one worn by the first Captain Marvel, and bearing the golden, starburst icon from it. She's also ditched her domino face mask, and gotten a pretty dramatic new haircut ( Read more... ) -
Digital Love
Last summer, I thought about going digital for my comic book needs.
Since then I've looked into a lot of new series
I/ve read Ultra, with its magazine based covers, and the story of a career superheroine who sleeps with a cute guy, reads all about it in next week's supermarket tabloids and then has to deal with the public backlash. There are some ( Read more... ) -
Revelations: final thoughts
I've "finished" Assassin's Creed Revelations, and watched Embers, which means that I've done all of the Ezio stuff for Assassin's Creed.
Since the trailer came out for Revelations, I've been hella excited about it ( Read more... ) -
Welcome to my world
I posted this to Scans_Daily this evening, but it goes here too. Because I can.
I had a big think about this in the summer, but recently, I've been thinking about how comic books attract new readers and how welcoming they are. There's an old saying about how "every comic is somebody's first" and comics have to have a go at making it possible for ( Read more... ) -
Drifting apart
My Paid Account has expired.
I don't see myself renewing it, though I'll still use this periodically. If you want to keep in touch I have a twitterAnd to makr this post slightly more interesting, have you seen the video for Simple Math by the Manchester Orchestra? It's genuinely amazing on artistic, emotional and stylistic levels. The water tilt ( Read more... ) -
New Musical Excess
After vowing to do it for a long time, I'm back listening to proper music. This is helped by having a bundle of albums burned on to CD for my car Good Luck's EP and album and Hold on now youngster by Los Campesinos. Los Campesinos have a new album out later this year, which might be exciting. The first track released from it certainly sounds like a ( Read more... ) -
In which I dip my toe into the world of social justice.
I was out for a wander on the Internet this morning, when I saw somebody in an anti-racist discussion link to the Daily Mail. I assume ignorance on the part of the poster (I believe that they're American), and so I prepared a little lesson.
I know that I'm coming late to this party, so sorry for that.
The Daily Mail is a racist newspaper that ( Read more... ) -
The world is a strange place
Are games companies right to restrict the characters players are allowed to kill in games?An interesting article, this. It mentions Bioshock and the little sisters. I harvested my first one the other day, while replaying it differently to how I played it the first way. I felt a bit ill pressing the harvest button ( Read more... )
