- Just spanked Girl One’s bum by way of goodbye, then realised we were in public. Hm. #
- It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life… #
- Just recalled a daft amount of time last night – around 10 minutes – confused that 1985 to 95 came to 11 years. I am tiredstupid, obviously. #
- @warrenellis It’s pretty easy, if you’ve removed the internal organs first… #
- @kellysue We got a £2000 – which is around $20,000 – vet bill last month which has me sympathising the hell out of that sentiment… #
- (That sentence was completely broken – maybe I need more Red Bull.) #
- @kellysue Nothing quite so serious – she had dramatic symptoms to a simple infection, so ended up having emergency treatment & 2 overnights. #
- @kellysue Of course, I dramatically exaggerated the £/$ rate for fun, so may have made it sound worse than it was. But it WAS pretty scary! #
- The “comment notifier” plugin on nixsight & EW sends the most absurd Engrish notifications to the users. I kinda want to leave them like it. #
- Dammit, now I feel incredibly guilty for making a daft joke out of the cost of the dog. When insurance isn’t claimed yet. Sorry, @kellysue #
- @Kellysue Ta! Girl One may never get over the trauma of having dog blood over everything we were wearing on the day, tho. STUPID bleedy dog! #
-
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!
If you know anyone who might be interested in this stuff, can you tell them about it please? Pretty please?Go! Get involved!
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
Comments are disabled for this post