Category: Comics

Thanks xkcd!  So it’s not just happening to me?  I wondered if anyone else had this kind of thing happen to them. I have been included on family-wide emails to a clan of Mormons for years despite trying to explain to them that they HAVE THE WRONG EMAIL ADDRESS.  I tried for a year or so to correct things — I certainly don’t want the email and I figured some relative was missing out on them — but it never seemed to stick so I gave up.  I don’t read them but they do still come by on a regular …

This is Everything I Know is a great (just a bit longer than) 24 hour comic from Spike, the creator of the comic Templar AZ and the editor of the Smut Peddler anthology series.

I saw the story about the NYCC essentially hijacking a number of its guests (did it include all attendees?) social media accounts (the story seemed to be about tweets though so maybe it was only twitter).  Crazy to think that anyone would think this would be okay.  Where would NYCC have gotten the idea from? Certainly not Facebook or Google+ right? Anyhow this recent Gutters on the matter is my favorite editorial comic of the month.  Certainly funnier than any of the trite government shutdown comics I’ve seen.

The Lost Boy by Greg Ruth has a fairly basic story. Boy finds artifact and mysterious stranger(s) that lead him to a fantastical kingdom where he must complete his task to save the world. There really aren’t a lot of surprises here unless you’re totally unaware of stories of fairies and magic.  But Ruth does add some clever details, from the initial appearance of an old tape recorder (which helps provide an opportunity for exposition through playing it’s old tapes) to the various animal creatures who appear in the story. What really makes this book worth reading is the fantastically …