Archive for Comics
I enjoyed the vid party at WisCONline last week. Here are half a dozen of my favorites—some sweet, some thoughtful, some angry. “Come ’Round for Tea” (2014), by Garrideb Showing female friendships in Marvel comics, with all the words in word balloons replaced by hearts. (song: “Baltic Sea,” by The Social Services) (2 min) “Pipeline” […]
Books! Free to a good home. Let me know if you want any of these. Priority given to locals and to others who I’ll see in person soon (at WisCon or at Swarthmore Alumni Weekend, for example), and to people in the US (for ease of mailing). Haven’t managed to take photos of these, sorry. […]
I've been really enjoying the current storyline in Agents of SHIELD. It's doing a virtual-reality take on a sort of...
This is a long impassioned post in which I try to come to the defense of Marvel comics. The TL;DR...
I recently read Voice, the latest completed volume of Carla Speed McNeil's excellent sf comic book Finder. This storyline is...
Today I spent a few hours pre-cleaning before the cleaners got here--the level of clutter was such that they would...
One thing I'm liking about various recent superheroes is that they're surrounded by community. A couple of years ago, Captain...
I'm really looking forward to the new Ultimates comic book series. The team will consist of Ms. America, Black Panther,...
Spent way too much time reading comics over the past couple days when I should've been doing other stuff. But...
I'm having one of those everything-is-deeply-intertwingled moments. On the way home, Ada Palmer's haunting and lovely and sad-yet-hopeful song “Somebody...
This weekend went surprisingly well in various ways: I completed something like a dozen to-do items that I had been...
In the late 1980s, I was delighted to discover N. Leigh Dunlap's comic strip Morgan Calabresé. It was mostly about...