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Bookmark: Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is the first novel in the A Song of Fire and Ice saga and the teevee series adapting that string of novels. But you know that, everyone knows that. The popularity of this story is surprising to me; clearly the HBO teevee adaptation had a lot to do with it but it seems like the novels had gathered a lot of steam on their own. I only read the novels last year and only just now, thanks to the free “preview” of HBO on the local cable system for a few months, have I caught the first …
Strip Search Recap: Episode 13 (aka Day 4)
Strip Search sends its fourth contestant home after episode 13, but not in the way you’d expect. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec175HpLxDM?rel=0] Spoilers galore after the jump so don’t click read more until you’ve watched the episode.
LARP it up Fuzzball
I have never LARP’d but it seems, in theory, like it might be possibly fun. Depending on the scenario and the people and how much coffee I’d had. If I could bend the rules like Francis in today’s PvP though, that might seal the deal for me: This made me think of a great couple of Angst Technology comics from Barry Smith about dressing up as Captain America for a Civil War enactment (a mix-up with Marvel’s Civil Wars comic book storyline). Sadly though I can’t find any actual website for Barry’s comics anymore so I’ll just link to the …
RIP Carmine Infantino
Dang, I didn’t see this until today — Carmine Infantino passed away on Thursday. Infantino designed the Silver Age Flash’s now-iconic red and yellow costume. He drew “Flash of Two Worlds,” a landmark story published in The Flash #123 that introduced Earth-Two to DC Comics. He also helped coordinate the cross-publisher comic “Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man.”
Bookmark: The Walking Dead
I just saw that Goodreads has been bought by Amazon. I don’t know what to think about that, I haven’t been super-active on the site recently but if it’s all now going to be fodder for Amazon’s store, I suppose I will think about it in a different light. But I digress from the zombies. I just finished watching the Season 3 finale of The Walking Dead teevee series. I thought this last season was mostly really good. Probably the best season yet but regardless I think we can all agree that it was better than Season Two. The comic …
RIP Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert passed away this week. Cancer sucks. No one growing up now will get how I and others looked forward to seeing Siskel & Ebert’s show. They argued about movies, they showed clips — it was the only thing of its kind at the time. I thought Ebert had better taste and the better of most of their arguments on the show but when I got older I think I appreciated Siskel more. Now they’re both gone. The role of the critic in the era of the Internet is different. There is no more scarcity of reviews and very …
Dead Trees: Sin Titulo
Comics Alliance reports that Dark Horse will publish later this year a hardcover collection of Cameron Stewart’s self-published webcomic Sin Titulo. I previously blogged about Sin Titulo here and here.