- @Emmavieceli Aww, man… Maybe Microserfs is meant to stay as a unique, perfect object. Tho, each DC that I have loved has been v.different! #
- @kmellon But aren’t we all a little crazy? Actually, scratch that. Past gfs have proven there’s a definite watershed on practical sanity. #
- @steevbishop Oh My GOD, what has science done!? It’s supposed to be “Monkey VS Robot”! Why are we bringing our two natural enemies together? #
- Unbelievable. Just discovered that yesterday I wrote “Right” when I meant “Write”. Hanging head in shame, now… #
- @steevbishop That interpretation momentarily occurred to me, too, as it happens…! #
- It occurs to me that every wife-beater I have ever met in person was an egg-shaped man (or woman, come to think of it). #
- Although it is by no means a definitive observation, I have to admit that this realisation has somewhat spoiled my fun memories of Weebles. #
- Oh, how they wobble, but they never fall down. They never, ever, never will fall down. #
- Oh, also, idea for website/blog. Daily bullshit. Writer posts a very short, completely fabricated fact or event, with varied tone & results. #
- Variations on that theme: Only post a lie that you’ve convinced someone of on that day. Or: “facts” you’ve passed off to your kids. #
- Oh fuck. I’ve become the web equivalent of Alan Partridge. #
- “A Youtube channel full only of children dancing to popular songs!”"Days Of Our Second Lives, a fab new soap!”"Charlie Bit Me, the musical!” #
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Found Objects
MOMBcast #137 is recording tonight! Get involved!
MOMBcast #137 is recording tonight!
As always, we welcome contributions - 2-5 minutes of audio sent to MOMBcast@gmail.com - and questions/comments either here, at G+, FB or at the same email address.
We’ve also got a copy of Antony Johnston and Sam Hart’s beautiful new espionage GN The Coldest City to win - it’ll be tied into tonight’s show, so listen and keep an eye out here or at MOMBcomics.com for details on how to enter.
Oh, and we’re still asking you that question about animated movie adaptations of comics - go comment here or at G+ or FB in the relevant place and we’ll talk about that tonight, too!
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Peach for godsgirls
Illustration by Victo Ngai for the fiction “Sweet Dreams” by Peter Stamm
“She went to the bathroom, filled the tub, and got undressed. The mirror misted over with condensation, and the smell of pine needles filled the air. She turned off the water, and the apartment suddenly seemed very quiet. Then she heard footsteps, and Simon’s voice through the half-open door. He said, I’ll just go downstairs for the bottle of wine. I thought you’d gone already, said Lara, and she poked her head through the crack, and he kissed her on the lips and tried to barge the door open, but she held it shut. They kissed again. See you soon, said Lara. It was odd, she still felt a little ashamed in front of him.”
This scene is one of my earliest comic memories. It was the first point at which I saw a comic character making a mistake, which meant it was probably the first time I really processed them properly as characters and human.
Spider-man has webbed up a doorway to stop a criminal escaping, but then realises that the criminal is escaping out of the window instead, and in his hurry to catch them he forgets his own webbing.
It seems gloriously ridiculous out of context, but if memory serves it was part of a pretty intense and dramatic story featuring Alex Summers (Havok).
(This was me, by the way.)
Bella Heathcote
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