Alexander Danner wrote up a short review of Ryan Estrada’s The Whole Deal bundle of comic e-books sold on a pay what you want basis — inspired by the very successful Indie Bundle of independent video games. This seems like a pretty interesting thing to apply to comics and worth keeping an eye on. Continue reading Alexander Danner on The Comic Indie Bundle
I am a big fan of John Scalzi’s science fiction stories – have been I guess since reading Old Man’s War after it got the nod for the Hugo. But I am also a fan of what are essentially philosophical posts on his blog Whatever. This recent post on how John succeeded in life illustrates the interconnected of almost everyone’s life (in fact a lack … Continue reading Why I Also Love Reading John Scalzi
Another year and another Comic Con International not attended. Don’t get me wrong I would have fun going — it’s just the opposite coast from me and a major amount of money and time I can’t justify or even carve out of my schedule. Mostly it’s the time; I might be able to convince Ms. X to go although it’s not really her thing, but … Continue reading Opposite of Comic Con
I’m late to getting to read Delilah Dirk and The Turkish Lieutenant, but I throughly enjoyed it. Two fully developed characters, some nice science fiction/fantasy elements and a great arc for Selim who despite second billing is really the protagonist of the piece. Continue reading Daring Delilah Dirk
The worst thing about Drive, the recent movie with Ryan Gosling is that now we can’t have Drive a hilarious space adventure movie based on the Dave Kellett webcomic. (Okay we can still have it but we’ll have to come up with a different title, like “My Mohawk Brings All The Boys To The Yard”) There’s something quintessentially sweet about a Dave Kellett comic — there’s … Continue reading Title Confusion: Drive
Or not. But we are either sure or almost sure depending on your standard of certainty that the Higgs Boson has been detected by CERN and therefore that we have evidence of the Higgs field, the theory that explains mass as a result of elements interaction with the Higgs field. PhD Comics has this very cool video explaining not only Higgs but several aspects of … Continue reading Higgs Boson was George Lucas’ first name for Han Solo
I met Aaron Diaz at SPX way back when Dresden Codak was a relatively new webcomic, one that in my mind still looked heavily influenced by the dearly departed A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage Is Done. I bought a poster of the Atheist Heaven and Religious Hell comic from Aaron – which hangs next to a poster of ALILBTDID comic. But in rereading it … Continue reading Hobnobbin’ with Dresden Codak
Some webcomics I’m struck by how much a reread of a long stretch of archives — entire stories at a gulp — can change my perception of the project. Octopus Pie is one of those — I always liked it but I am not sure I got all of the characters the first read through. And then of course, it is much more reliant on … Continue reading Rereading Octopus Pie
I just finished Kim Stanley Robinson‘s 2132 so space and Mars is already on my mind. Robinson is probably best known for his Blue/Green/Red Mars trilogy. All of those books touch on terraforming Mars, the concept that we might alter the atmosphere — the entire planetary system — of Mars such that ultimately it could be inhabitable by humans. Here’s a video on the idea from … Continue reading 4th Planet from the Sun: Mars
No power for a couple of days around here which delightfully have hovered around 100 degrees – a gazillion degrees considering the yogurty humidity. Still I was able to escape to work today and the temperature has drifted back into a saner realm. UPDATE: Day 4 of no power. Does this qualify as a ironically unironic first world problem? I am camped out a Starbucks … Continue reading Mobile By Necessity
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