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Bookmark: Fables

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 26, 2013

(Some earlier discussion of Fables in this post and this post) Fables: The Dark Ages feels like the final final to the big epic “war” storyline of the Fables comic books. It’s a great tale, fantastic comic — anyone who enjoys playing with myth and meta-ing out on existing stories would love this stuff for sure (Like Jasper Fford? You’ll amost certainly like Fables). So mostly just a note to myself – I need to go hunt down a copy of The Great Fables Crossover to read next. February 2013 Update: Just finished volume 17 of the Fables trade collections. …

My Favorite: Movies: 1986

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 25, 2013

1986 had a lot of movies in the middle. It also had one heck of a bad movie I paid good money to see. I wasn’t a Howard the Duck comic book fan but I definitely got caught up in the hype. That was a pretty awful movie. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgd46QiHz4I?rel=0] I was a big fan of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It was the capstone of the first phase of John Hughes’ career – which makes sense as it’s about leaving highschool behind (and of course, goofing off) where all of his previous movies had taken place. But I will give …

An Old Altbrand Logo

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 23, 2013

Hey! The forum logo I drew for the resurrected ALTBRAND forums circa 2004. I was not even in the top half of artistic talent associated with the all too brief Altbrand, er, brand. But I ran the web stuff which sometimes let me preemptively slip in some of my work. What’s a forum you ask?! Oh boy, that’s a relic of the days of Internet yore. Gather around the digital hearth here and let Grandpa X tell you young ‘uns a tall tale of wrangling Ikon Boards.

My Favorite: Movies: 1985

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 23, 2013

Another year full of movies I remember pretty fondly. There were a number of movies I actually liked quite a bit while watching them but just can’t list as among my top ten favorites from the perspective of 2013. Young Sherlock Holmes is a fun and fairly well done movie adaptation of the iconic character with some decent special effects for 1985. Heaven Help Us is about a band of boys at a catholic high school — I went to a catholic high school. Finally, Explorers was a fun adventure movie for kids — I distinctly remember choosing it over …

933 Dollars

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 21, 2013

The creators of 933 Dollars did a guest comic for Girls With Slingshots which was pretty funny. Doing a great guest comic for a more established webcomic can be one of the best marketing tactics for a new webcomic. Especially if there’s some overlap between the two comics, which in this case there is a little bit. 933 Dollars is about a high school graduate heading off to art college; needing desperately to find a place to stay that she can afford. 933 Dollars has really nice art, just over easy on the eyes. The writing is at times really …

My Favorite: Movies: 1984

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 21, 2013

1984 has special connotations due to the George Orwell novel. It was the year Ronald Reagan won his “Morning in America” reelection to the United States Presidency. I bet there were some editorial cartoons that year linking the two. It was also the year the Oakland Los Angeles Raiders beat the Washington Redskins (I live in the DC general area now; I still wish the football team would change its name) – a game that sealed my fandom of the Raiders and doomed me to many recent years of misery as they’ve fallen into deep ineptitude. But that game was …

Potter Manning

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 19, 2013

A good one from Penny Arcade:

My Favorite: Movies: 1983

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 18, 2013

1983 was during my high school years. I had forgotten this but just as 1980 delivered a Star Wars and a Superman sequel; 1983 delivered a Star Wars and a Superman sequel. HAVE SEEN: A Christmas Story, Vacation, The Outsiders, Return of the Jedi, War Games, Superman III, Trading Places, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, Risky Business, The Right Stuff, The Meaning of Life, Krull, Twilight Zone, Mr. Mom, The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew, The Man with Two Brains, Educating Rita, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Zelig. HAVE NOT: Scarface, Flashdance, Videodrome, Local Hero, Terms of Endearment, Christine, The Dead Zone, Rumblefish, Cujo, The King …