Good Reads

my ‘read’ shelf:
So I found this site that I am having a lot of fun with the widget for it being above this blurb — go check it out.

Warren Ellis: Aetheric Mechanics

Ranthead: Star Wars Raped My Childhood

Have I anywhere publicly expressed my loathing for Star Wars? I am not sure that I have. I feel the urge to do so now. Why? Because my children have the Star Wars Lego computer game and the sound of R2D2 screaming like he is being introduced to twelve inches of wookie meat is driving [...]

Comicsphere: Witch Doctor By Brandon Seifert & Lukas Ketner

This comic really grabs you from the first piece of art that you see until the last. Having been a part of Warren Ellis’s Whitechapel community since it’s launch I and others have been privileged to get an insight into the research that went into this story; the thoughtful way in which every aspect of [...]

Comicsphere: More Freakangels

This week’s episode, which I am reporting on late thanks to various computer issues, was beautiful. The art work in this series as a whole has been beautiful and it is as much for the ideas that drive the artwork as the artwork itself. But sometimes, as with this week, it is beautiful in the [...]

Comicsphere: Batman, Judge Dredd - The Ultimate Riddle

After reading the first team up between Dredd and Batman it was almost inevitable that I was going to be around for the second one. This one definitely didn’t pack the same punch as Judgment In Gotham though. The premise is fairly simple and fairly similar — to place two iconic figures with different perspectives [...]

Comicsphere: Friday Means Freakangels

Today was a very kinetic episode — as usual packed with more than most would be able to get into six pages. Ellis has the use of comics and their panels down to a fine art as far as conveying information goes. Sure, it will be interesting to see how this scans when it finally [...]

Friends: moon calf by nicole isabella

mooncalf by nicole isabella
please check out this great poem (by clicking the above link) by my friend nicole which has been accepted by gloom cupboard — this cool zine that comes in both print and online editions. i always like to show support for the independent press. keep an eye out for nicole’s book [...]

tinternet: twitterholic

http://www.twitterholic.com/
twitter now has its own charts to tell you who the most read people on there are. warren ellis is in the top 100 and seems simultaneously pissed and happy about this. seems like the whole service might be ready to enter a transition phase and  go overground. it’ll be interesting to see if this [...]

search engine weirdness

it’s odd, when i first started writing under the skull cull logo it seems that the search engine terms that dragged people to this page were somewhat weirder. perhaps the more content you get the better quality of surfer gets directed at you? like internet karma or some such bullshit. i don’t think that can [...]