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Today's Questionable Content
Jan. 19th, 2018 05:42 amI'm referring to the webcomic series by Jeph Jacques.
Today's installment has got me thinking of Kurt Vonnegut.
Today's installment has got me thinking of Kurt Vonnegut.
Webcomics Question
Jan. 25th, 2017 04:57 pmDistracting us briefly from the pains and rages of the moment:
Is there a webcomic series you'd recommend I start reading?
Is there a webcomic series you'd recommend I start reading?
A more hopeful note
Mar. 5th, 2013 10:05 pmTo close the evening on, go read this:
http://zenpencils.com/comic/106-chris-hadfield-an-astronauts-advice/
http://zenpencils.com/comic/106-chris-hadfield-an-astronauts-advice/
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jkcarrier!
Oct. 1st, 2012 11:02 amThanks for the mutual friendlisting, and I continue to wish you well with your assorted webcomic projects!
The rest of you reading this might want to go to his LJ and have a quick look to see for yourselves...?
The rest of you reading this might want to go to his LJ and have a quick look to see for yourselves...?
Today's Sinfest Instalment
Jul. 5th, 2012 08:08 amIt seems inevitable, and yet still somehow cruel. And I'm not sure who's aiming the cruelty at whom in this instance.
Mark Shainblum and Gabriel Morrissette did something big a quarter-century ago: it was a series called New Triumph featuring Northguard. The lead feature was about a young comics fan in Montréal named Philip Wise, who stumbled into both his biggest dream and his worst nightmare all at once...for they were one and the same thing. And Canada's survival would depend on how he coped with that fact.
Now it's back, available online.
My hope is that print editions will also resume shortly. Beyond that...?
Now it's back, available online.
My hope is that print editions will also resume shortly. Beyond that...?
Getting Back to Comics For a Minute
Feb. 4th, 2011 09:24 pmOkay...I keep meaning to get back to discussing comic books here. It's supposed to be a main focus of my attentions, right? Not only as one of my favourite reading media forms, but the one I still entertain my best hopes of earning an honest living in.
(beat)
Right.
So, there's a few series - in print and online that I've been keeping an eye on of late. None of them have my hand in them, but you might want to have a look at them if you're not already doing so.
Legion of Super-Heroes: Paul Levitz having returned as writer of the series, and the characters living up to their name in terms of sheer numbers having indirectly prompted the revival of Adventure Comics and subsequently directly annexed it for the purpose of ensuring a broader canvas on which to work.
Having the broadest canvas of the 31st Century of the DC Universe on which to work, Levitz and his artistic partners are doing a solid job of picking up more or less where Levitz left off after the end of the "Magic Wars" arc a decade or two back. I'm happy with this, watching all the poking around going on. Earth, Durla, Winath, Orando, Avalon, and points elsewhere...
(I'm still convinced that there's room for more than one version of the LSH to see print on an ongoing basis, thanks to the revived multiverse, and I look forward to peeking back in on those other versions from time to time...in due course.)
Secret Warriors: Thanks to Marvel Editorial for giving Jonathan Hickman this particular set of toys, centred around Nick Fury, as well as his past with...
SHIELD: The idea of this organization having ancestry going all the way back to ancient Kemet - what we Anglophones still insist upon calling "Egypt" - and ensnaring the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Howard Stark, Nathaniel Richards and Nikola Tesla along the way?
I'm having fun. I don't quite understand all of what's going on here, but I'm having fun.
Iron Man: Matt Fraction, I offer thanks for bringing a new focus to Tony, Pepper, Rhodey and - to my happy surprise - Mrs. Arbogast of all people!
Galaxion:ttallan brands it a "romance". I call it a mystery.
I think we're both right. And joining in the comments chatter is part of the fun, too.
Quantum Vibe: Written and Illustrated by Scott Bieser. Set in a 26th Century where humanity's taken the solar system, uplifted a number of its companion species Brin-style, and now Nicole Oresme is looking to make a few changes, starting with a new job taking her out of L-5 City - yes, it's where you think it is! - to work with a physicist she's only just heard of.
When she gets to Mercury...well, better you go back to the start of the series and see for yourself!
More to follow in irregular installments...and over to you!
(beat)
Right.
So, there's a few series - in print and online that I've been keeping an eye on of late. None of them have my hand in them, but you might want to have a look at them if you're not already doing so.
Legion of Super-Heroes: Paul Levitz having returned as writer of the series, and the characters living up to their name in terms of sheer numbers having indirectly prompted the revival of Adventure Comics and subsequently directly annexed it for the purpose of ensuring a broader canvas on which to work.
Having the broadest canvas of the 31st Century of the DC Universe on which to work, Levitz and his artistic partners are doing a solid job of picking up more or less where Levitz left off after the end of the "Magic Wars" arc a decade or two back. I'm happy with this, watching all the poking around going on. Earth, Durla, Winath, Orando, Avalon, and points elsewhere...
(I'm still convinced that there's room for more than one version of the LSH to see print on an ongoing basis, thanks to the revived multiverse, and I look forward to peeking back in on those other versions from time to time...in due course.)
Secret Warriors: Thanks to Marvel Editorial for giving Jonathan Hickman this particular set of toys, centred around Nick Fury, as well as his past with...
SHIELD: The idea of this organization having ancestry going all the way back to ancient Kemet - what we Anglophones still insist upon calling "Egypt" - and ensnaring the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Howard Stark, Nathaniel Richards and Nikola Tesla along the way?
I'm having fun. I don't quite understand all of what's going on here, but I'm having fun.
Iron Man: Matt Fraction, I offer thanks for bringing a new focus to Tony, Pepper, Rhodey and - to my happy surprise - Mrs. Arbogast of all people!
Galaxion:
ttallan brands it a "romance". I call it a mystery.I think we're both right. And joining in the comments chatter is part of the fun, too.
Quantum Vibe: Written and Illustrated by Scott Bieser. Set in a 26th Century where humanity's taken the solar system, uplifted a number of its companion species Brin-style, and now Nicole Oresme is looking to make a few changes, starting with a new job taking her out of L-5 City - yes, it's where you think it is! - to work with a physicist she's only just heard of.
When she gets to Mercury...well, better you go back to the start of the series and see for yourself!
More to follow in irregular installments...and over to you!
A Surprise on Comics Shop Day
Aug. 30th, 2006 09:43 pmToday's the day when the books get delivered to the local shops. I got some good reading, which I'll talk about in another post.
Something else I discovered today in the wake of following up on the Gemini Award nominations for This is Wonderland: Seems one of the performers in that show has gotten herself a serialized bio-comic.
The lady's name is Siu Ta. She played junior attorney Nancy Dao on the show, and that character was a classic. Nancy Survived (capitalization intended) everything from the refugee boats from Asia to Ontario's law school system, and all those experiences left her with no patience for suffering anyone she perceived as being foolish with anything remotely resembling gladness. Nancy would regularly steal scenes where her character was involved. I sometimes wonder if she'll end up a New Conservative or go Libertarian as she gets older.
Before and since TIW, Siu's divided her professional time between acting and producing her own indy film work. I still hold out hope for that series' revival, especially given that Gemini Award nomination news, but in the meantime, there's this: a serialized bio-comic, available at her website. Drawn by no less than Dave Sim.
Yes, that Dave Sim. The one who drew the Aardvark of legend.
Sometimes life surprises me. Today was one such day.
Something else I discovered today in the wake of following up on the Gemini Award nominations for This is Wonderland: Seems one of the performers in that show has gotten herself a serialized bio-comic.
The lady's name is Siu Ta. She played junior attorney Nancy Dao on the show, and that character was a classic. Nancy Survived (capitalization intended) everything from the refugee boats from Asia to Ontario's law school system, and all those experiences left her with no patience for suffering anyone she perceived as being foolish with anything remotely resembling gladness. Nancy would regularly steal scenes where her character was involved. I sometimes wonder if she'll end up a New Conservative or go Libertarian as she gets older.
Before and since TIW, Siu's divided her professional time between acting and producing her own indy film work. I still hold out hope for that series' revival, especially given that Gemini Award nomination news, but in the meantime, there's this: a serialized bio-comic, available at her website. Drawn by no less than Dave Sim.
Yes, that Dave Sim. The one who drew the Aardvark of legend.
Sometimes life surprises me. Today was one such day.
