Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 August 2007

Man-Bag-iness

In response to Warren Ellis's Bad Signal Confession:

I have been man-bag guy for many years, so many that I was that kid in school with a briefcase. OK that's a bit of a lie, I had a briefcase but didn't take it to school. What I did have was what can only be described as medium sized luggage. The thing was big enough to fit the entire classes books in and once over-balanced my considerable limited judo skills to get me a good kicking from some passing bullies. Contents:

* School books (backed in wallpaper).
* P.E. kit (in an attractive red-sock in with the whites shade of pink).
* Pencil case (full of random pens, pencil sharpener, protractor and coloured pencils with the colour names on them).
* Random sweet wrappers (empty).

That was, of course, when I had to carry what my Mum bought. For years after that, when I spent most of my time Roleplaying and had money in my pocket, it was a CAT record bag that hung from my shoulder. Contents:

* No records.
* RPG books (Feng Shui, Call of Cthulhu, Champions or Star Wars).
* Extra pencils, sharpener and a rubber.
* Many, many dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12 & d20s).
* An A4 writing pad (full of random campaign notes, tally-lists and calculations).
* An A5 note book (full of top secret campaign notes - well actually it was mostly empty, I never made notes).
* Comics (double bagged for protection).

These days it's a simple Gymsack (a horrible name). Light-weight and inconspicuous, if a little flimsy; I'm on my 2nd one now. Contains:

* A6 note pad & pen.
* Baseball cap; in-case it rains (currently Boston Red Socks).
* A draw-string plastic bag (to waterproof my stuff, these bags are very thin and I live in Manchester).
* The Metro (the best paper in the world).
* Whatever paperback I'm reading at the moment (right now - Around the World in Eighty Days).

Maybe I need to upgrade?

Tuesday, 21 August 2007

Spider-fun, Spider-fun.



This is the new Spider-Man cartoon. The last animated series was good, the animation looked great and mirrored the recent films design, but this one looks a lot more Saturday morning cartoon and a lot more fun.

Sunday, 1 July 2007

Three Iron Men and a Woman


From Marvel.com

This is a promo photo from the upcoming Iron Man movie.

I have high hopes for this film; the casting of R.D.jr as Tony/IM is inspired, the design looks great from the teaser pictures and how scary does Jeff Bridges look in this shot!

Rememer to 70s and 80s?


From Marvel.com

When Superman laments on the 'golden' years of his film career, maybe Spiderman isn't the best shoulder to cry on...

Sunday, 27 November 2005

HULK RIP!


Ultimate Hulk vs Ultimate Wolverine


WOW! It's scenes like this that remind me why I love comics.

You couldn't descibe this moment in a novel with the same impact and you wouldn't have enough time in a movie to absorb the relevance.

This mini-series is deffinately going on must get list.

Saturday, 3 September 2005

Katrina Khaos

What's going on in New Orleans is mind boggling.

A natural disaster and such a chaotic aftermath is believable, and almost common place, in a so-called 3rd World country.

But in the heart of the civilised world?
In the middle of the World's only remaining Superpower?
Its almost unbelievable. Like a bad TV movie or a trashy airport paperback.

The similarities with Vertigo/DC Comics new mini-series DMZ is eerily prophetic.

Monday, 29 August 2005

Da da da da Bat-shirt



I did buy a t-shirt from More T Vicar.

Thursday, 18 August 2005

Animated Blogging

I found these two sites for comic creators:

Dork Tidings - the blog of John Kovalic creator of Dork Tower, Dr Blink and illustrator of the Apples to Apples game.


Family Guy Freakin' Blog (via Blogger Buzz) - a blog by the writers, directors and staff behind the super-cool cartoon series.

Great cartoons but what about the blogs? Let me know what you think in the comments...

Tuesday, 9 August 2005

Super Bonus Fun Redux

Here are a couple of animation themed time-passers I found while clicking through Savage Chickens:

  • Flipbook - create an online Flash animation flipbook. Here's one I made earlier...

  • Angry Alien - Flash animations of your favourite movie blockbusters featuring rabbits ... no seriously.
  •