This is my last week at my current posting, and it’s sad. I like working here, I like the people I work with. I’m spending the entirety of this week training my replacement, which is really weird. I don’t want to be here. I’m in some kind of twilight realm where I kind of work [...]
In other comics news, Scary Go Round is apparently featuring a bit on Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. It’s like John Allison has looked directly into my brain and knows what I need. A friend of mine was complaining that she wants to know what’s going on in hell. I want to know how Captain [...]
People reading these comic recommendations are probably getting a pretty clear idea by now of what I like in a comic (or a story in general). Let’s make a list of what DiceBox has, shall we? Science Fiction World Building Healthy Sexual Relationship Strong Female Characters People of color/different ethnicities who aren’t simply “exotic other” [...]
Nesko had to work late last night, so Gerry and I settled in to watch a subpar horror flick. Nesko isn’t a big horror fan, see, and I’m finding horror movies more and more appealing as I get older. So one of the many awesome perks of living with Gerry is I have someone to [...]
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking “Gee, Brigid, it’s been awhile since you’ve talked about food!” Ok, ok. It hasn’t really been awhile since I’ve talked about food. But it has been a while since I’ve talked about restaurants and I got lunch at a restaurant today so I’m going to talk about it. [...]
We had dinner with some friends this weekend, and we got there a bit early and they were running a bit behind with the cooking, and there wasn’t enough room in the kitchen for me to hang out and help so instead I sat around in the living room with the other roustabouts and we [...]
Family Man by Dylan Meconis, is one of those lushly illustrated, intensely researched, fleshed out comics that make me swoon. Set in Germany during the Age of Reason, ex-Scholar (and can a scholar ever really be an ex-scholar, even if he did leave university behind?) Luther Levy returns home to the warm and welcoming bosom [...]
I’ve put Nesko and myself on a diet. It’s not a diet of subtraction so much as a diet of addition. What’s that, you say? How the fuck does that work? I’ll tell you. I went to the grocery store last night and bout $85 worth of fruits and veggies. And also some gourmet bacon [...]
There’s a few things I’m a sucker for when it comes to comics. Mythology is one of them. Changing up mythology, making it your own, is another. World building. Moral struggles. Multiculturalism. Complex characters with distinct personalities, motivations, goals, and faces. Lush art that improves as time goes on. Solid story. A quick look around [...]
Nesko, Gerry, and I went to see Harry Potter and Not Enough Alan Rickman as Snape yesterday, and I was launched into a frothing rage at Hollywood’s inability to take a good, solid story and not fuck it up and make it dumb as a box of rocks. Retarded rocks. I’m referring, of course, to [...]