- @laineyw Is that bad meaning bad, or bad meaning good? #
- @moongate Heh… I assume you mean the one about terrorists… Why, thankyou. It comes from the heart…
# - Retweeting @Sulman: Pegg on Dead Set http://tinyurl.com/5zrjdh Very smart & canny critique from the Peggmeister. I both agree & disagree… #
- The zombie milieu has evolved into two different strains, now – each as valid as the other. One is about our fear of inevitable mortality… #
- … the other our fear of societal chaos. Circa Romero, the mundane & mindless looked like society’s greatest enemy… #
- … Now, western culture has gone feral & is more aggressive, being torn apart by an indignant swarm seems as valid a primal fear. #
- @mrtonylee Of course, whatever happens, this is STILL going to be the day that Bush goes. The question is, how much worse can things be? #
- @mrtonylee (It’s one of those questions that I always beg @sulman not to ask – the universe has a way of answering it in the meanest ways!) #
- @mrtonylee Exactly. Also, do you ever get that feeling, when, say, a mildly debilitating bug seems to be going around? Like… #
- @mrtonylee … we’re looking for a comet or a nuclear war, but the zombie apocalypse could be happening all around us as we speak… #
- @Sulman Who will think of the lorry-jockeys? Seriously, do even they need bleating hearts to look out for them? I’d expect stronger stuff. #
- @idsharman … No, no, that works. “Vistory” is the version of history that the victor writes! Do I get a No Prize for obscuring your boner? #
- @idsharman You say that NOW… Oh, dear, I seem to be coming over all @zdarsky! Hush my filthy mouth… #
- @Emmavieceli You know, half the time I can’t even remember who our PM is. It’s the guy who looks like a head prefect, right? James Cameron? #
- Kthanx for the hd, novatech. For the lack of leads, not so thanx. Of to fking Maplins, then! #
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Found Objects
Another Way To Breathe: On The Disir
HEAVY SPOILERS FOR JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY 638
I was asked on my Formspring “Was that always the real origin of your Disir, or something that evolved for EXILED?”. To which I responded….
When I created the Disir back in SIEGE: LOKI and NEW MUTANTS 11, I knew the origin I gave wasn’t the…
Kieron Gillen is killing it on Journey Into Mystery. It’s process like this that’s the reason why. Inspiring.
MOMBcast #137 is recording tonight! Get involved!
MOMBcast #137 is recording tonight!
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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.)
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