dvandom: (Blue Goji)
2011-02-09 06:53 pm
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Some of the comics for Feb 9, 2011

Book of Note: Love and Capes Ever After. )

   Dave Van Domelen, "Don't look like that. I can't be the first person to have put their parents in an alternate universe and made them faint." - Zodon, PS238 #48
dvandom: (PonyMegs)
2011-02-08 06:43 pm
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dvandom: (ASH)
2011-02-07 02:20 pm

ASH: CSS #25 - "The Sod Men" featuring White Hat

Coherent Super Stories #25 - "The Sod Men" featuring White Hat: In the early 1980s, it was mistakenly thought that the White Hat had passed into the public domain, and a British publisher created a short-lived weekly featuring comics and text pieces about him, pseudonymously written by Bart Stone. Fandom rumor has it that Alan Moore wrote at least some of these stories, and could this tale of prairie zombies be one of them?
dvandom: (Davan)
2011-02-04 04:31 pm
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A few of the comics I was supposed to get this week

Books of Note: Agatha H. and the Airship City, the Amazing Spider-Man #653 )

   Dave Van Domelen, "An attack by costumed lunatics. NOW this place officially feels like the Daily Bugle..." - Robbie Robertson, the Amazing Spider-Man #653
dvandom: (YHELOTHAR)
2011-01-31 09:00 am
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Slip-sliding away....

So, campus is closed in anticipation of a day full of freezing drizzle. I'd put some stuff off to today, so I went in and got it to bring home to work on. The streets themselves are still safe, but the parking lots are kinda iffy and of course all cars are encrusted in a millimeter of ice. Depending on when the freezing drizzle transitions to snow, we'll have only 5 to 8 inches of snow by the end of tomorrow. Some parts of Missouri will get almost two feet. For the metric-inclined among you, that's 12-20 cm here and "Ah, **** It, I'm Staying Home" in Missouri.

To the person I was briefly behind on the way home: you are not a tank commander, you need to clear more than a 5" wide vision slit.

When I got home, I helped a few neighbors scrape off their cars (and taught them the "score the ice first" trick), then had fun sliding around the parking lot on foot for a few minutes before coming inside to get down to work. :)
dvandom: (Blue Goji)
2011-01-26 05:38 pm
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Comics for January 26, 2011

Book of Note: Optical Allusions )

   Dave Van Domelen, "Okay, okay, you don't have to be so MARY SUE about it." - Sersi to Amadeus Cho, Chaos War #5 (of 5) (Hey, if there's an Eternal who reads fanfic, it's...well, Sprite. But Sersi's a close second.)
dvandom: (Skritchiz)
2011-01-21 07:15 pm

Story: Slim's Scythe

Slim's Scythe. Based on a story I read in Cricket back in grade school, as best as I can remember it. Wish I could remember the title or author. (Not science fiction/fantasy/superhero stuff, more like modern tall tales. Well, it was modern in the 70s.)
dvandom: (CoH)
2011-01-20 10:46 pm

Sliderman in CoH costuming

Didn't actually make this character, just used a spare costume slot to make the look.
Gastro/Intestinal Dominator? )
(As an aside, I think I managed to restore my machine to "only as bad as it was last night" after the ill-fated experiment with Fan Control.)
dvandom: (SuperOptimus)
2011-01-19 05:33 pm
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Comics for January 19, 2011

No books of note, but I have some comments on the Green Hornet movie. )

   Dave Van Domelen, "Parker-Sense...tingling." - Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man #652
dvandom: (TribarrelC)
2011-01-17 07:28 pm
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Review: Power Core Combiners 5-pack wave 4

Grimstone and Steamhammer both Recommended. Grimstone is a sort of balance of really good and so-so elements, while Steamhammer is fairly consistently good.
dvandom: (Kawaiiju)
2011-01-16 07:12 pm
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CoH: Sili-Kate

Well, all of my older characters are above L14, so it's "okay" to make a new one. :) And with supergroup kinda collapsing tonight due to RL issues, I figured it was a good time to get a new one going.
Angsty amethyst woman behind cut )
dvandom: (Zandarin Oops)
2011-01-16 02:38 pm

Worst superhero concept ever....

I mean, can you imagine the powerset?
dvandom: (Beeba)
2011-01-16 01:48 am
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Best Comics (and related media) of 2010, according to me

Best of 2010! A bit late this time, as I was waiting for some books from earlier in the year to be mailed to me by [livejournal.com profile] scavgraphics, whose store Diamond isn't trying to kill. Yet.