Girl Comics!

The Beat had the exclusive this morning.

I think this is a really cool project. In an industry that has frequently had sexism issues, it's nice that Marvel decided to celebrate the women who are currently making comics with these one shots. I'm looking forward to buying this. Shame about the title, though.

The ONTD_P comment thread on this made me want to tear my hair out, however.

Merlin: Meh. I guess the recent events were supposed to feel epic and groundchanging, but they don't for me, partially because I suspect this season will end with some sort of reboot. Show is far, far too attracted to its monster-of-the-week format. Also, I increasingly dislike the choices Merlin is making. Major Kira would call him a collaborator.

Princess and the Frog: Enjoyed this a lot! Lovely animation, especially in Tiana's dream sequences and surrounding the baddie. I did feel it was a tad long for the material - the frog adventures in the bayou seemed to stretch on FOREEEVER. I desperately wanted them to get back to New Orleans and to be human because it seemed as though those earlier sequences were far more interesting to me. And the songs are very slight.

( Hai spoilers! )

In conclusion: there was no real race or genderfail in this that I saw, and I enjoyed it, but it is a slighter work than their previous offerings. I hope that Disney continues its newfound commitment to 2D animation, though, as this is a promising start.

Ask me anything fandom-related and I'll answer honestly in a separate post. Comments are screened so no one needs to know it was you who asked. (Though let me know if you want to be anon.)

Everyone in my house has the plague. I woke up this morning to stumble to the bathroom only to find it covered in vomit. This is the part in the zombie films where we start dying like flies and reanimating with a hunger for braaaains.

In other news: my brother and I started watching I, Claudius, which is so our favorite two episodes in that I am about to shamble out to get the other disks from the library. DO NOT SPOIL US. I mean, other than obviously, rocks fall and so does Rome. We want to be surprised when our favorite BBC actors show up.

My brother has a crush on Livia, I think. My brother has excellent taste.

Also, because I'm sick, I've been watching Star Trek fanvids all day long. Here are my new favorites:

( Behind a cut. )

My dad broke my favorite mug tonight. It was a Bloomingdale's Big Brown Mug, that looked like this: mug.

Bloomingdale's changed the way their mugs look like to this:



And of course I can't find a replacement online.

I have to admit, I think this is a pretty good performance of the Hamlet "To be or not to be..." monologue. I really do think Paramount should license a troupe to do this on film - how awesome would act five be with Bat'leths? Pretty awesome, because everything's better with a bat'leth.

First, I had a fight with my mom who abandoned me all day. This sucked because I had to deliver art to the Cheyenne campus of CSN by four. Luckily, I called Shane and he took me.

Shane and Noelle and I went to get birthday pastry at the Bellagio. I had Key Lime. It was delicious. Then we walked through the brand new City Center. It feels like being transported to some other city that's a little bit more real than ours. The mall has the most AMAZING public sculptures. One is a collection of, uh, ice rods, that make a mysterious humming noise as they drip and melt. The other is a set of tubes, filled with water of various heights and volumes, each with a constant spinning tornado inside of it. You could stare at it for hours.

Despite being dressed up, there were a bunch of Vogue people there (because this was opening night) and I felt fat and awkward. Especially since half the audience were real honest to God 'didn't I see you in last month's Givenchy spread in Glamour' types. One guy was so damned good looking that Noelle and I stopped in our tracks, and then asked each other: "Is he real?"

Oh, and half the stores are not open. And the mall itself (called 'Crystals') has this weird fucking layout which means you spend more time walking to an escalator to get to a level than you do past shops. Which I think can't bode well for it as a retail experience.

It is a lovely building, though.

After the mall, we split up. Noelle and I both have gallery shows to set up tomorrow. Thus ends my 25th birthday - which I had a lot of reservations about, so low key worked for me. Maybe next year I'll have a party at a bar or something.

Is there a reason that the student loan servicers must constantly be in repayment when all the others are deferred? Are they just too stupid to see that if I'm in school, all my loans must be in deferment and not just the ones they feel are deferred at the moment?

I signed up for classes today as well. I am going to go full time.

'Cause God knows I ain't got any moneys... but it's a cool idea.

( It's not just a bat, it's a man-panther-bat! )

Christopher Eccleston and Naoko Mori in 'Naked Lennon'

Yes, that's right. The Ninth Doctor will finally shag Toshiko Sato of Torchwood, except they'll be playing the parts of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

I ask you, interwebs: was there any project more clearly conceived as 'this is a thing which will make Tori happy' before? The only thing better would be if John Lennon and Yoko Ono then fought dinosaurs.

“As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I also want to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything.”

-Obama encourages kids to make robots.

It's up on Tube Of You, and having nothing better to do, I decided to watch it. I kind of wish I hadn't - it's full of awesome never actually been to Nevada fail.

The really ironic thing is that they could do a story set in Nevada, since Nevada basically looks like a quarry with the Rocky Mountains in the background. And this is partially why whenever someone points out a quarry on the old show I am like, Oh? Because my world normally looks like rocks and shit with some scraggy plants growing off of it.

And the best part is that there's also unexpected Indian fail. Did you know that whenever an awful thing happens to a Native character they bust out 'This is just like when X massacre happened to my people!" LOLS no wai.

All this AND crappy animation. I hate you right now, Doctor Who.

Click for Children-in-Need preview

Nothing has ever made me grin so hard for so long like a stupid moron.

( My God. )

This is cool.

UNLV turned me down for admission today. 'Cause I owe money to SAIC.

What to do now? I guess I'm free to go apply for the Harry Reid re-election campaign if I want, or maybe I should go to the Art Institute of Las Vegas for lulz.

But first: dude, now that scans_daily moved to Dreamwidth it suddenly feels a lot more like home. I should reup my paid time asap.

( There's nothing I can say about Doctor Who speculation that isn't spoilered out to the max, you got warned. )

"Waters of Mars" actually gave me a nightmare last night. QFT.

I was spoilered out to all ridiculous, but when I FINALLY managed to download this, immediately after I watched it I thought it was the best episode ever. Except when I watched it again immediately after with my brother, I decided the first half hour is really draggy. So no, "Midnight" is still my favorite.

( Here are the real spoilers. )

So yeah, really enjoyed it.

Actually, I'm going to try and get through some real life announcements first:

The selling of the zine at the Vegas Valley Comic Fest went well. I sold about twelve copies and gave out some freebies to the publishers (as you do) who were not THAT interested but polite about it (as they are). I was kind of bummed about it, but that's life, you gotta keep chipping at it to get shit done. If you for some reason want a copy, it will be up on etsy in a bit for three bucks, and you'll be able to pick one up at Alternate Reality in Las Vegas, and Chicago Comics/Quimbys as soon as I have the time to run some more off and send them out, etc.

Anyway, Abby and Joe and I had a good time, despite the fact I had slept all of six hours in the last 72 and was about to kill someone to eat their flesh. (Or fall asleep over my drawing board, one or the other.)

Now to Doctor Who shit. Before "The Waters of Mars" airs, I just want to mourn the death of my long strangled ditch-baby spec script.

( Possibly spoilers for 'The Waters of Mars' (Kind of only spoilery if you are going into this episode absolutely blind.) )

I'm not saying mine is better than RTD's, because quite frankly, mine has some epic plotholes where even diagramming couldn't help me figure out how the timey-wimey worked. I just think it's a hilarious story that I will tell you all now for bragging rights.

Now some reviews of TV:

Sarah Jane Adventures: This week's baddie was a Time Lord in Disguise. That makes two Time Lords in Disguise this season. I actually thought it was kind of boring, missed Luke a lot. As usual, Clyde had all the best lines. The Aspie Science Kid was annoying.

Merlin: Jesus fucking Christ were the Troll episodes a waste of time, which is all I have to say about them. Well, actually, Uther making out with the troll was kind of brain bleachy too, despite the fact you knew the show was gonna go there.

( Spoilers for 'The Witchfinder' )

Mad Men: ( Okay, wow. )

Looking forward to next year!

I don't care how crazy that book is, I always will love Andre Agassi. HOMETOWN GOTTA REPRESENT.

I'm in the last stages of making my zine for the Vegas Valley Comic Fest. It's been driving me mad because I want to goof off and talk about Doctor Who ~spoilers~ instead of cutting and pasting and photocopying and laying out in photoshop...

If you live in Vegas and didn't get an invite on Facebook, we're having a signing at Frankie's Tiki Bar from 5-7 tomorrow, and then a gallery opening at Atomic Todd's for First Friday. Please come and be awesome. And then Saturday 11-4pm is the Comics Fest.

Okay. Here's important: where's a good place for zines in New York City? I'd like to distro it there but I don't know who has a zine rack and which ones are the best...