Linkishness
Mar 04Jeff over at Conditional Axe “celebrates” Gambit Week:
Now, there’s a truism that gets bandied around about no character being a bad character, but for all of that talk, I still look at Gambit and scratch my head.
Us too, Jeff.
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I have mixed feelings about the new geek blog on the block, io9, but I do genuinely appreciate their coverage of ALL corners of sci-fi, especially artwork and literary stuff (even though my own “history” with literary sci-fi is shamefully inadequate). Here’s their latest book review, of John Varley’s latest novel, Rolling Thunder. Sounds like a fun read. More of this and fewer random lists, please!
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Via The Beat, an absolutely genius bit of nonsense:
A Dump of Some Comics Links
Feb 28Heidi MacDonald has a great post up dissecting Dave Sim.
Via io9 (cause I can’t open the original link at work due to dang Websense blockage), the secret inspiration for some of comics’ latest masterworks.
So it looks like Diamond is getting into the remaindered book selling biz. I point this out only because I dream of the day when I can walk into a Barnes & Noble and find decent trades for dirt cheap alongside the bestsellers from six months ago.
Funnybook Babylon and David Uzumeri have part three in their excellent series dissecting Grant Morrison’s work and applying it to the DC universe at large. That’s probably a shitty description, but it’s a freaking great series. Must read.
(Deep dark confession: I’ve never read Cerberus OR Bone.)
Throw-Up In My Mouth
Feb 27Super Mario Bros. 2 has always been my favorite Mario game.
X-Files 2: The Trailer is Out There (For Now)
Feb 25Seeing all those WonderCon reports fly up onto the web over the weekend gave me a twitter of excitement in my belly. I do loves me my convention season.
But nothing excited me more than how cool this bootlegged video of The X-Files 2 trailer looks. Billy Connolly with his crazy long white hair ALONE has sold me on this flick.
Do you need my shipping address?
Feb 25Because you must be purchasing that giant replica of Gort from The Day The Earth Stood Still as my early birthday present. Or a late Christmas present. Or a gift from the Easter Bunny.
E-mail for my details. Kthxbye.
