Nate Piekos’ Realm of Atland ended this month and it’s a milestone worth noting. A funny, often gross, solid tale of adventure in a magical, tolkienesque land, Piekos updated this webcomic for 8 years, brining it to an open-ended but still satisfying ending. 2015 Update: Nate is making new Atland comics again. Click here to start with the new ones.
Alexander Danner wrote up a short review of Ryan Estrada’s The Whole Deal bundle of comic e-books sold on a pay what you want basis — inspired by the very successful Indie Bundle of independent video games. This seems like a pretty interesting thing to apply to comics and worth keeping an eye on.
I am a big fan of John Scalzi’s science fiction stories – have been I guess since reading Old Man’s War after it got the nod for the Hugo. But I am also a fan of what are essentially philosophical posts on his blog Whatever. This recent post on how John succeeded in life illustrates the interconnected of almost everyone’s life (in fact a lack of connectedness is probably a sure sign of failure) and plainly without invective gives the lie to the ideology of behind those who claim they accomplished everything in their life on their own. It doesn’t …
Another year and another Comic Con International not attended. Don’t get me wrong I would have fun going — it’s just the opposite coast from me and a major amount of money and time I can’t justify or even carve out of my schedule. Mostly it’s the time; I might be able to convince Ms. X to go although it’s not really her thing, but the X girls are probably still too young for the whole thing. Dunno, maybe next year. In the meantime I’m still really pleased with Comic Rocket. I’ve used it as an excuse to reread a …
I’m late to getting to read Delilah Dirk and The Turkish Lieutenant, but I throughly enjoyed it. Two fully developed characters, some nice science fiction/fantasy elements and a great arc for Selim who despite second billing is really the protagonist of the piece.
The worst thing about Drive, the recent movie with Ryan Gosling is that now we can’t have Drive a hilarious space adventure movie based on the Dave Kellett webcomic. (Okay we can still have it but we’ll have to come up with a different title, like “My Mohawk Brings All The Boys To The Yard”) There’s something quintessentially sweet about a Dave Kellett comic — there’s sarcasm and sass but never too much. Rereading this one too — I loved the “wrap-up” of the first storyline:
Or not. But we are either sure or almost sure depending on your standard of certainty that the Higgs Boson has been detected by CERN and therefore that we have evidence of the Higgs field, the theory that explains mass as a result of elements interaction with the Higgs field. PhD Comics has this very cool video explaining not only Higgs but several aspects of the standard model: [vimeo 41038445 w=500 h=656] The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.
I met Aaron Diaz at SPX way back when Dresden Codak was a relatively new webcomic, one that in my mind still looked heavily influenced by the dearly departed A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage Is Done. I bought a poster of the Atheist Heaven and Religious Hell comic from Aaron – which hangs next to a poster of ALILBTDID comic. But in rereading it all I forgot how far into it he was before he started the Hob storyline. Not that far in the grand scheme of things but far enough it seems like it wasn’t necessarily the direction …
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