Some unexpected good news today — Ramon Perez blogged that he intends to return to updating his fantasy, coming of age webcomic, Kukuburi. Perez is such an amazing artist, I love his expressions and the shiny vitality of his characters. He’s done a ton of work in the last couple of years on several projects for other people; it’s great to see him return to … Continue reading Return of Kukuburi
What a beautiful comic. Ava’s Demon is gorgeously art’d up and the story, while a little clunky to start is setting up a potentially powerful narrative pull. And the art! It’s on hiatus now until the end of 2013 but there’s quite enough in the archives to get hooked on it. Did I mention the art? Continue reading Ava’s Demon
I picked up The Long Earth when it first came out, excited to see another novel from Terry Pratchett. It has a great world-building concept; a series of parallel earths that can be reached by “stepping” from one world to the next. And the stepping is triggered by an invention straight out of a typical Pratchett novel. Unfortunately nothing after feels anything like Pratchett. Which … Continue reading The Long Read
I was a little late to the SMBC party but have been a fan for several years now. I laugh a lot of Zach’s comics because they are funny. Zach is funny. Sometimes he does that funny plus another level though that is just great. I really liked this one… Continue reading Dr. Zach’s Guide to Parenting
I have a love hate relationship with the game Civilization. The current version is Civ 5 and coincidentally I’ve been playing a bit of it this summer too. It does lend itself to some historical mismatches from time to time though as illustrated by the very recent installment of Awkward Zombie: Continue reading Clash of Civilizations
Keith Olbermann remembers a story of talking to his father about sports and civil rights that is quite moving. I get it that Keith is a big personality and a bit of a diva at times in his career. Even I don’t actually watch him regularly most of the time (some of the time though). But he’s got a talent for talking to the camera. … Continue reading Bookmark: Keith Olbermann
I finally got around to watching the first season of Spaced, the British TeeVee series featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and directed by Edgar Wright. I have to say, it is really funny. Perhaps a little too targeted to my life experience in terms of age and pop culture; it makes me wonder how well it will hold up over the years. Director Edgar … Continue reading Bookmark: Spaced
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