August 2011
70 posts
Space And Stuff, IDK: The Lunar Receiving... →
lightthiscandle:
The lab had dormitory bedrooms for the people working there, plus separate private bedrooms for the three of us and the doctors. There was a kitchen, dining area, and a large living room recreation area where we could watch television and, in the evenings, show movies. Two…
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The Problem of Women in Comics: Where They Are... →
The nice kids at Comics Alliance were kind enough to lend me their soapbox so that I could talk about women in comics, and the way we talk about women in comics, and how we got where we are; and propose some ways to fix some of the bad shit that has become endemic to comics as an industry and market.
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X-MEN COMICS...
captainfuck:
…best read with Wikipedia handy.
- “What the fuck are the Shadow King’s powers again?”
- “Betsy & Brian had an older brother? FUCK. Why don’t I remember this?”
- “Yuriko and Yukio aren’t the same person?”
There’s a limit to how much continuity one brain can keep straight.
For a number of years, my whipping-out-my-geek-dick party trick was explaining, very rapidly, the...
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On the Side of the Angels
Dark Horse announced today that we’re going to be publishing an Avatar: the Last Airbender comics, written by Gene Luen Yang. I’ve known about this for a while—I distinctly remember yelling and jumping up and down in the hall outside my office when I first heard—but the official announcement has me grinning all over again.
The comics themselves are a really big deal, and...
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“The Chicago Tribune used to have a great columnist named Mike Royko, who was an...”
– A Morning In Iceland (via douglaswolk)
This is the best thing.
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The Hell What No
Did I miss Pete Conrad Day? I totally missed Pete Conrad Day, didn’t I? DAMNIT.
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“…By the way, for the flat-Earth people, it’s round.”
– John Young, about the Earth, 1993. (via awwyeahjohnyoung)
I love John Young.
(via lightthiscandle) 