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- OH MY GOD @josiefraser, Bubbles was on the Criminal Minds we watched last night! I love spotting Andre Royo in other things! #
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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!
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.)
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