Recent Posts Tagged With 'off-topic'

• Stalled With One Issue Left

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 09:00 in gemini, delays, off-topic, oz, wheel of time

  A few weeks ago, I mentioned that a lot of the indie comics I read don’t have fixed schedules. In a few cases, it goes beyond that, and the comics are, as near as I can tell, totally stalled — in some cases for years. Maddeningly, there...

• GeoCities, RIP: Fandom’s Lost Pages

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 14:23 in off-topic, geocities, linkrot

  Today, as quietly announced six months ago, Yahoo is shutting down Geocities. Geocities was one of the icons of the Internet in the 1990s. It was emo before LiveJournal, boasted legendarily awful layouts before MySpace (be sure to check XKCD today),...

• Flash Forward = Fantastic

  Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 01:16 in TV, Sci-fi, off-topic, flashforward

  The FlashForward premiere was amazing. I’d been hoping it would be good, but it not only lived up to my expectations, it surpassed them! More thoughts at K-Squared Ramblings. If you missed it, ABC is running it again Friday night. It should al...

• Deadly Nightshade After Closing TIme

  Posted on Saturday September 19th, 2009 at 09:00 in humor, weird, off-topic, golden age, repost, green lantern

  Comic Cavalcade was an anthology series that ran from 1942 until 1954, publishing super-heroes and other adventures for the first six years. Wonder Woman, the Flash, and Green Lantern were the headliners. Earlier this year, DC reprinted the first t...

• Speed Reading: Misney, Sergio, Lex & Planetary

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 17:00 in disney, cosplay, off-topic, fables, marvel, lex luthor, don rosa, linkblogging, planetary, sergio aragones, y the last man, livesay

  And some non-Flash linkblogging to round out the week! There’s a million pieces of Marvel/Disney fan art by now, but these posts collect some good ones: Bleeding Cool: The Misney Universe Comic Vine: Have a laugh, on me! Robot 6: Unleash the D...

• Disney Buys Marvel: What The–?!

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 12:54 in disney, off-topic, boom, marvel

  So, the Internet is abuzz with Disney’s purchase of Marvel Comics. There seems to be a lot of freaking out along the lines of “OMG Disney will turn Marvel into kid stuff!” There’s also a lot of people having fun with mash-ups...

• Plug: Badge Lanyards

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 12:49 in off-topic, self-promotion

  A bit of self-promotion: My wife has started selling crocheted lanyards at klfdesigns.etsy.com. They’re designed to work with either clip-on or pin-on badges. So if you’re tired of walking around conventions with your badge attached to t...