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So I haven't posted in...yeah, it's been a while. So, a random entry of shiny things in my life:
* My shiny shiny new laptop, which this entry would certainly not be an excuse to play with. No. I've never owned a laptop before, and I am enthusiastically charmed (and also happy to have, you know, a decently working computer again....) *cuddles ( Read more... ) -
Pretty pictures!
Came dragging home from a distinctly long day, and found a package from odditycollector sitting on my doorstep, which turned out to be a belated birthday gift. I was smiling before I'd even got to the gift, accompanied as it was by redialogued comic pages in which Supergirl and Brainiac 5 argued over whether it would be appropriate to use time travel to get the ( Read more... ) -
Latest Shiny
I have acquired my copy of Teenagers From The Future, a book of essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes. I haven't gotten very far into it, but three quotes from the introduction and the first essay ( Read more... ) -
Also, the superhero presidential elections continue apace.
Batman and Iron Man having won the primaries (and no, I didn't vote for either of them; ah well), apparently it's time for a public debate between the two of them this Saturday. *giggles helplessly* This I have to see. There's already a group movie outing on the schedule, but this should fit in fine, it's not even that far away... (Then again, ( Read more... ) -
Today's shiny thing...
So around the time that I was starting to get worried it would never actually come out, the complete black-and-white collection of Scott McCloud's Zot! landed on my doorstep. With a thump, presumably, because 575 pages! 575 pages of the best ridiculously idealistic hero ever and his terrifically 3D girlfriend and de-evolutionary cults and crazy ( Read more... ) -
Vote super!
I love my comics shop. They're on the subway line, they have shelves and shelves of graphic novels, and every so often they do something like this: Marvel and DC presidential primaries on Free Comic Books Day. Totally my kind of political event. *g* Sadly you have to come to the store to vote, but if you live in the DC area I encourage you to ( Read more... )