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Bought all the back issues (1-16) and read them in one day. Drooling everywhere. So I go to the comic book store today to pick up the latest issue and the little dork boy behind the counter told me they're canceling it at issue 21. Ass monkeys. I was sooooooo getting into this too. And I realized why I hate and love comics. I love them for the addiction. Because if it's a good story and the artwork is good, you're hooked. But I hate the cliffhangers. I hate that I have to wait a month just to get rid of the uneasy feeling it leaves me in the end of the last one. In a book, you can choose where to hang. A comic you can't..and I'm unbelievably annoyed. Grr. |
Have you checked out Kurt and Ann Busiek's "Astro City" graphic novels? |
I need a new one to get into. I've been randomnly reading some of the Dreaming comics although they will never ever ever live up to Sandman. Ever. I agree...it's better to get it in graphic novel form..but there's something redeeming about getting the individual issues. Check out the new Swamp Thing ones...even though its getting cancelled, it's an absolutely great storyline. The whole conflict between man and nature and can they co-exist or do we have to choose? |
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Did I ever tell you how I used to play D&D just because I had a crush on a boy? I have an affliction for nerds. |
Amazon.com links. A Review |
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I love me some XMen. You can guess who was one of the first in line when that movie came out last year. |
You should check out Girl Genius by Phil Foglio, it's really good. Also you really need to check out everything Jhonen Vasquez has done (Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Squee!, The Bad Art Collection, I Feel Sick) and Lenore by Roman Dirge. If you played D&D, you should pick up a copy of Knights of The Dinner Table. |
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Have you checked out Johnny The Homicidal Maniac as well? I think it's even funnier. |
i like lenore. some lenore stuff ended up in the shitter of some place i lived at. i used to read them over and over. |
this weekend I saw "ghost world," a movie based on a graphic novel by dan clowes. its realistic presentation of what relationships are like reminded me of "happiness." beware of spoliers: the thora birch character sort of falls for steve buscemi, a guy she is too cool to really actually like. she wants to be his buddy, but she also wants him to want her. she tries to set him up with other women, and to her chagrin she sort of succeeds. birch knows this new woman isn't good enough for him. she knows she is better. but he withholds his affection from her, knowing that he cannot continue a close relationship with birch while progressing with the new, inferior woman, who will actually deign to be his girlfriend for real. after losing buscemi to this other woman, and then managing to alienate her best girlfriend, she gets really depressed and heads to buscemi, her former confidante, and she makes him take her in and talk to her. she feels forsaken by the entire world, and she says things she may not really mean, making buscemi think that she wants him. which she sort of does, at the moment. then he falls for her for real, which he has wanted to do all along but hasn't let himself because she has been distant. and as soon as he does, she is forced to withdraw completely. she can't even answer his pleading answering machine messages. she has to cut herself off from the only two people she cares about in the world. she's too good for them. but what then? movies so seldom deal with the topics that seem most real and important to me, like self-sabotage and unsustainability of longing and the cruel daisy chains of desire and the real difficulties in relationships (like not being as pretty as your best friend), that I get really excited about the few that do. this is one. |
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... When boys gravitate to the less rigorously misanthropic (and conventionally prettier) Rebecca, Enid scares them away with her glowering superiority. One of the film's narrative threads charts the growing distance between the two friends, as Rebecca gravitates toward a maturity that Enid regards as a fatal compromise. In her dogged search for authenticity amid the fakery that surrounds her, Enid befriends a middle-aged record collector named Seymour (Steve Buscemi). His obsession with obscure popular culture and his grumpy disconnection from just about everything else ("I can't relate to 99 percent of humanity") fascinate her; he seems like a kindred spirit, the grown-up version of herself. But Seymour's own view of himself is colored by a sense of self-loathing and failure. While Enid's estrangement from everything and everyone is in part a youthful pose, his is rooted in the pain and frustration of unfulfilled adulthood. ... As the movie gathers momentum, we see that Enid faces a delicate predicament, a crisis much more real and familiar than the usual senior-prom agonies. Can she hold onto her critical intelligence and her skepticism without succumbing to bitterness? Can she find her way in the world without being swallowed up in it? |
liking some guy but not being able to fully LIKE HIM, you know? you're his buddy, his confidante. but he wants a girlfriend. specifically, he wants you to be his girlfriend. but he doesn't push it, so it's ok. you go so far as to give him advice, give him a little push into asking women out. then, oh my god, you fucking succeed. then he's dating some woman who is thoroughly inferior to you. you wonder how he can stand her, even though it was your idea in the first place. ok, so you've done him this great favor, but then you are out in the cold. she will have none of it, and that's perfectly understandable. you had the sort of relationship that can only work in a vacuum. ow. or, how about this? there's a guy you like, but you can't fully LIKE HIM. but circumstances lead you to hang out with him a lot, then sleep with him. whatever. then these circumstances, which are outside normal day-to-day life, lead you to say things that you don't really mean, things about deeper, longer-term connections. and of course he takes you seriously. then he calls you. and calls you. and writes to you. and what can you do besides totally ignore him? there is nothing else that can be done. you are a monster. |
Comics need to be Unreal. They should take you away from boring mundane everyday life. |
I'm a halfling. I wanted to be something really cute, now I find out I have hairy feet and a potbelly. Also, I don't have a name yet, and I'm being really lazy about picking one. |
I used to like to DM. Mostly because my attention span was too limited for me to wait my turn and still keep focus if I was a player... but my wandering imagination came up with some fun things. Hal's the halfling type. I don't know that I played with him though. A friend of mine played a halfling named Slingshot. |
Read some Knights of the Dinner Table (available at fine comic book stores) for teh right perspective. Hoody Hoo! |
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let's go do some drugs patty. |
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Heh. I don't think I've played since Jr. High. Maybe early high school. I always got impatient with the silly battles. I just wanted a story. Wait, I did play some in late High school. DM'd by this guy who did a lot of local acting and whatnot. That was great. I was just there to listen to him. I'd throw dice when I had to, but it was just an excuse to watch/listen to this guy. |
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one of the girls who's playing thinks I'm immature because when we all had a meeting to create our characters I kept making silly suggestions. like: I said, Can I have wings? Morgan said, no. No wings. I said, Can I have wings that no one can ever see and we never discuss or refer to in any way? Morgan said, yes then. You can have wings. I said, Thanks. Can I have a tail? and so forth. my friend Jamie made me buy my first set of dice the other day. I don't know what the heck I'll ever use them for, but she was really excited about it. they're clear with tons of purple sparkles. and they roll like suck. |
jesus christ. playing a jr. high game is one thing. but taking it so seriously. mental. |
gee: short for geek. |
oh wait, you were making fun of me. |
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I think Fairy Meat might be a better game for this group though. |
I don't remember where I put those dice. |