Comic for Wednesday, May 25th

Posted: 9:12 am, Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Weddingpalooza began early. I gave blood yesterday during lunch and the ladies at the donation center were watching All My Children. It was evidently a seminal episode, as Erica Kane got married to some guy who was named Jackson. I didn't know this until I was talking with 2.0, but evidently that was Susan Lucci, the lady who kept get nominated for a Daytime Emmy and never won (until she did). Can you imagine losing a Daytime Emmy? Hayden Christianson acts better than soap stars. Anyway, so that happened. Then, in a horrible turn of events and because she doesn't really love me, 2.0 took over the remote and settled on Britney and Kevin: Chaotic, and Rob and Amber Get Married. Britney and K-Fed are only courting in their ridiculous way on the show, but we all know how that ends up, and Rob and Amber did, in fact, get married. That one wasn't too bad - at least the Sox were in it briefly. As for Chaotic: Holy train wreck, Batman. Next up: Loyal reader and frequent shout-outee, MNP gets hitched in a mere two days (meaning that Friday's strip will go up at five-ish tomorrow night). Unless Jack and Kate or Charlie and Claire or Sayid and Shannon or Hurley and Locke get married tonight on the Lost finale.

I just signed up for Illustration Friday, something I heard about from Tart's blog. I don't know why I feel the need to draw something else, but it'll give you all something else to look at on Fridays, I guess, and it'll let me flex the ol' drawin' muscles on something besides the gang.

Oh, speaking of, I updated the About and Cast pages yesterday and forgot to mention it. The Cast page, especially, needed some attention.

Listened to the Woods on the way into work again today (meaning that I finally got around to putting it on Polly), and me likee. The Voice ran what is pretty close to a spot-on review of it. The disc has the feel of a live show - there's no crowd, but the jams are loose and some of the reverb and feedback pretty unexpected for a studio product, and the fuzz effect that I mentioned briefly yesterday gives it a kind of intimate feel. Very good album. And the way that review begins with how after the author saw the girls play, he wanted to be a girl to form a girl band? Spot fucking on. (The avclub likes it, too.)

Conan O'Brien writes an awfully good article for Newsweek about flushing the Qu'ran down a toilet. (The second clause of that sentence is false.)

Holy shit, Tom Cruise is insane!

I haven't bought a comic book in forever, but the five-page preview of Death, Jr. looks pretty good. Although, five bucks? Comics are seriously up to five bucks? Wow.

I saw this Monday and meant to mention it - the Spice Girls are reuniting! Rock. I, personally, voted for brilliant idea. I was outnumbered two to one at the time.

Knowledge of baseball, I learned from years 18-24, do not get you a girl. Actually, I suppose I was dating for much of that. Well, it doesn't get you very far with a girl.

Also, the dude on Websnark went nuts over this comic - he goes nuts over just about everything he ever writes about, frankly - but, y'know, it's kinda funny. Yoda saying 'bone' and meaning it like that, it's chuckle-worthy, at least.

Found a new comic, 8:1, yesterday. The archive goes back a while and I actually only got to go through maybe seven or so of the strips, but of those, I already liked two early ones enough to link to 'em here and here. 8:1 is on the webcomic-hosting service Keenspace. When I first thought about doing a webcomic - God, I think the first time I thought about it was maybe four and a half years ago - I considered hosting at Keenspace. I had even more limited internet access back then, which torpedoed the idea, and thank God, because it would've likely been brutal. But Keenspace gives free hosting and some publicity and what-not. Anyway, relating back to the previous paragraph about the guy on Websnark getting overly excited about everything, evidently six Keenspot (sister/brother organization, whichever) comics recently split off to become Blank Label or something like that, kind of like how Diesel Sweeties and Scary go Round are part of the 'dumbrella conspiracy.' Apparently, this is causing great waves in the webcomic universe. I don't really understand how or why that would be the case, I've never heard of these strips, but evidently some of them are good. (On further review, yes I have, and I even friggin' linked to one of them today - at least I do my fact-checking). Don't really know why I'm mentioning it here. Possibly just because I think it's goofy junior-high shit. Or possibly because I really think Websnark guy needs to up his medication. I know this gets the Ironic tag coming from a guy who's been utterly obsessing about a movie he doesn't even intend on seeing, but, dude, three posts in five hours on what amounts to little more than six guys staking it out on their own (and not even their own, as they likely already have large built-in readerships)? Go take a walk in the park or something, get some air.

One other one, Mute, which seems to have run its course. Story's so-so, but the art and style are pretty fantastic.

Interesting article on insurance and Hollywood over at Slate. Thanks, E.

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