Fun webcomic: Nimona
Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson, is a webcomic about arch-villain Lord Ballister Blackheart and his new sidekick, a shapeshifting girl named...
Archive for Comics
Darths & Droids for Best Graphic Story
This is a recommendation to nominate the webcomic Darths & Droids for the Best Graphic Story Hugo award. I wrote...
Three female superheroes
I've encountered three new and interesting superhero comics featuring female protagonists in the past two months. I hope to post...
New Captain Marvel series: excellent so far
Otavia recently recommended the new Captain Marvel comic-book series, starring Carol Danvers, formerly known as Ms. Marvel, and written by...
Review(ish): Avengers
Finally saw Avengers the other day. Enjoyed it quite a bit—liked it significantly more than any of the precursor movies...
Upcoming events and other stuff
Suddenly it seems like there are many Things going on around here: This weekend in Vallejo: NorCal Pirate Festival. Entertainers,...
Biggest time-sink ever
I have been meaning for years to link to TV Tropes, a wiki that provides a vast and entertaining and...
ecomics: Birds of Prey
DC Comics is rebooting various series and characters, and Dave S linked the other day to a good article by...
Sinbad: The Webcomic
I think it was someone in the Darths & Droids forum who linked a few weeks back to Sinbad Comic....
Chromatic comics
A fun LJ meme: casting various traditionally white comic-book characters as actors of color. There's a good starting point at...
Whiteout: The Movie
Ten years ago, Oni Press published a graphic novel called Whiteout, written by Greg Rucka and drawn by Steve Lieber....
Real-person roleplay
I recently saw Natalie Portman live (well, on a screen, but in realtime, from a nearby location). Which gave me...