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HeavyInk has brought a lot of internet stalkers into my life. These people watch my sites and profiles from afar but never interact. OR they im me and ask to do inappropriate things that no one should do with a stranger. No, no, not that inappropriate! But they seem to believe that because they’ve been watching me for months and know gobs about me, they’re my best friend, even though I have just learned about their existance.

Thanks, HeavyInk, hahaha…

Why Opera? Posted on my blog.

Someone out of the blue IMed me because TJIC reposted a comment I made on HeavyInk on his blog… right here.

GoDaddy’s PR plan consists of “Boobs” and “Football.” I don’t really know where I was going with that. Maybe… “Boobs work.”

How to propoganda your friends into signing up to HeavyInk.

- Naw, you don’t have to buy anything. Most of the site’s social. It’s like being in the comic book store on Wednesday. You can get great recommendations. Except… you can see the other comics they read, so you also can determine when their recomendations are worth shit.

- Naw, of course you don’t have to switch all your comics over at once. Just try a few and see how it goes. You can cancel at any time.

- Naw, most of the shipments don’t get banged up. The shipments that do get banged up get dinged at the last leg of the journey, so if your local USPS has been treating you well (following the directions on your other packages), then everything should be good for your HeavyInk. Also, HeavyInk packages are shipped in cardstock thicker than the comic boards.

These are very similar techniques to the ones pedos use to get little girls into their vans. “Naw, it’s just some candy. You can just take it and leave.”

Oh, and the phrase “Strangers are friends you haven’t met that?” I don’t buy that at all. Strangers are bastards that are out to kill you. You should always carry a dagger in your purse and mace lipstick in your back pocket. I wish there were an internet version of mace.

Collecting Comic Books has always stuck me as odd.

The beginning of comic books were as a cheap, disposable medium. The vast majority were funny, and they were meant to incite a child’s whining and to be priced accordingly for an impulse buy.Any collector worth his salt knows this and this is why the platinum and golden age are worth so much.

Comic book collectors try to compare this to collecting stamps. Stamps are disposable and that is why they are worth so much.

There’s a big difference in comics and stamps today, though. People don’t throw away their comics today. There have been so many stories about collectors making fortunies off of comics that everyone collects them. One of my LCS stories records a man putting his daughter’s savings into comic books, believing he’ll get a profit. Even those who aren’t looking for a profit generally save comics; they are no longer bound to be disposable, nor are they priced to be disposable. And the comic book companies will, like always and every company, follow supply and demand and print as many as people want.

So, these collectors save their comics in tip top shape but worth is calculated by how much they can sell it for and it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on. You say no! This paticular issue that I have is worth 8x what I paid for it, you say? Look back. How many of your comics are now worth a dollar, ten cents? You are in the red in your comic collecting. And there’s little to no way of knowing what comics are going to be worth something before it’s on the market and struts its stuff, so you can’t pick and choose.

They’re worth so little because everyone has a copy. No one else wants to buy another. And even it you wanted to sell it for cover price… why go to the trouble of buying it from some Joe Blow when the buyer can get it from a store? And when varients say only so many printed… that’s the number of copies you can be assured are saved, minus a few in unfortunate house fires. They’re not much more special.

So why do I stash up my comics rather than toss them? I keep them because they have stories in them. I paid $4 for a story, and I will go back and read it.

I did not pay $4 for paper and ink. If I had, I got truely ripped off.

I paid $4 so that I could enjoy a good plot many different times. I paid $4 so that I could feast upon beautiful and expressive art. I paid $4 so that I could do that again and again…

till the staples come out and the pages wear down. Cause I don’t give a dipshit about staples and paper and ink.

And not only will I never understan why y’all do… I will always think that you’re wrong.

DOCTOR WHO and STARGATE

In this nerdy bunch, there’s gotta be a few people who like these shows, ya?

WELL there’s a convention coming up next Memorial Day weekend just for Doctor Who and Stargate lovers called Timegate. This is just under a year away so you’ve got plenty of time for planning. ;)

There are three tracks: DW, Stargate, and general Sci Fi. This year’s was GOBS of fun! We had John Levene (Sergeant Benton in classic Doctor Who), and Tony Amendola (Master Bra’Tac in Stargate) among other fabulous guests like Louis Robinson (DW Film Editor) and David Harmer (Game Designer).

We had a lively Dealer’s Room with some of the most down to earth business people I’ve met; a con suite with real homecooked food (what a rarity), and me.

And I’m who you’d come for, right?

Okay, okay, so we haven’t published next years guests. It’s only been a few weeks since this year’s con! But I’d like for it to be on y’all’s minds. There is, of course, discounted rates for those who register early.

No excuses about how far away it is… there’s a hotel! I’ll definately be there, Memorial Day Weekend, and I hope to see you there, too!

Link to One Page Comic Here

The Hamster isn’t sad because of the knife. It’s sad because they continually spelled “hamster” wrong. It’s “ham” like the meat, then “-ster” like the suffix of “spinster” and other words that are not popping into my head right now.

My hamster recently died and I’m looking to adopt one. Particularly, this one, named Fizzy. Hopefully the adoption goes through ‘cause I don’t know what’ll happen to the poor thing if it doesn’t. Myself, I’ll just get a brand spankin new one.

I should be reading for my classes, and if not that, I should be reading from my $40 Marvel stack, but I’m not doing either. I’m looking at pictures of hamsters on flickr. Bleh, I’m very wistful today.

As y’all know, I still get some comics from my local comic book store. Mostly because HeavyInk (like most comic book stores) doesn’t have my import from Panini comics, Doctor Who magazine. I get the others from them so that I have enough in my box to get the discount.

But I don’t stop in very often. And though I am aware that comics come in on Wednesday, this knowledge is buried under “Useless Knowledge” with how to breastfeed, because I always come into the store on Tuesdays, it seems. Why? Why would I come in on a Tuesday.

Anyway so I pop in today (a Saturday, got to see different faces) and there was a HUGE stack waiting for me. A $40 stack. Every bit of it Marvel or Ex-Marvel (Doctor Who).

Forty Dollars.

You got me, good. Marvel. You got me by the balls I didn’t even know I had.

Why I like Valerie D’Orazio’s posts: because amist all the feminist whining you get a gem of a post like this.

Another Comic Book Store Employee

But this one is happy to work at the store. The only way you can be happy working with the weirdos that come into the store is if you are…

Oh, dear.

What’s up with people whining so much about the shipping ON HI’s website? I mean, have some shame.

Quote of the Day:

“At the end of all of the shenanigans, a Grant Morrison rough draft is almost always going to be more compelling to read than a lot of what the current crop of super-hero stories has to offer.” Tucker Stone

TimeGate VI is happening this weekend. We are now a four day con, staring up Friday afternoon, May 23rd, and going through Monday afternoon, May 26th, at the Holiday Inn Select on the top end of the perimeter. Still in Atlanta, GA, USA.

We have three tracks of programming, one for Doctor Who, one for Stargate, and one for everything else. :) Our Guests of Honor are Tony Amendola (“Master Bra’tac”, Stargate SG-1) and John Levene (“Sergeant Benton”, Doctor Who), and they will be on panels, as well as giving autographs all weekend. The complete list of guests is as follows:

Tony Amendola (“Master Bra’tac”, Stargate SG-1) John Levene (“Sergeant Benton”, Doctor Who) Dr. Kevin Grazier (science advisor for Battlestar Galactica and Eureka) Lars Pearson (Doctor Who author and publisher, Mad Norwegian Press) Christa Dickson (Buffy and Angel author) Louis Robinson (former Doctor Who film editor and Sherlock Holmes buff)) Jana Oliver (fantasy / paranormal author) David Harmer (Game designer and costumer) The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company The Might Rassilon Art Players Hyperdrive Professor Satyre’s Sci-Fried Show

The website is here, with tons of info, like directions to the hotel, and the complete schedule of events:

http://www.timegatecon.org/

We have a wonderful consuite, a cabaret, a costume contest (and two costuming panels), great selection for the video room, and much more.

I hope that anyone listening in Atlanta will show up! We will be here, Memorial Day Weekend, next year also so plan on it next year if you need more notice. I’m so excited!

Dark Phoenix vs Kitty Beast

Thank for Morrison for making Beast open to lolcat jokes. Much <3>

Oh, the awkward teen years and that awful realization that Superman isn’t real.

Golly, I legitimately start out for classy stuff to make my place look a little homier and it all just goes down hill into searches for “Batman,” “X-Men,” and “Doctor Who.”

I found a website a while back (and it’s far too early for me to pull it up again) that included college syllabi for classes about comic books. History, “as literature,” art classes, ect. ...

I’d like to present this to my college, but I’d need some other students to back me up. Now there are tons of students in my college (and I mean college like just the Humanities College) that would take this class. I avoid them as they walk past smelling up the hall. And I sceam, “Hey, Fatman!” at them with bits of cookie falling out of my mouth.

I just need to get a hold of these people. No… no, that’s not what I’m trying to say. They’ll talk to me. I’m a girl that knows Batman’s butler’s name.

If I say much more that that, though, I may shock and awe them into speechlessness and that doesn’t do me much good.

And if, if, I do all of that right… a good percentage of them are going to be lazy ass geeks who are going to flake out on me and wont show up for the proposal and it’ll be me and one wimpy litte puppy dog who prays that maybe I’ll smile at him.

I honestly think this is important. This is America’s art medium.* It has historically been difficult to accept a new writing style and in the grand scheme of things, the “comic book” is new (though the things that make it up are very, very old).

• Don’t gimmie that crap about anime and French comics. If you’re under the delusion that America didn’t make comics what it is today, then keep smokin pot in that other country with Alan Moore.

love

I heart Scott and Jean. Emma needs to be bad again.

Wonder Woman

Joss Whedon is going to come into my room as I sleep some night and kill me.

Okay, I’m writing this here out of shame for not reading this issue sooner.

In this arc, Dead-End Kids, does it seem like the Runaways suddenly grew up? I mean, there’s sexual child abuse, there’s BDSM,* and two people get shot down… can I use the expression “point blank” when they never had a chance?

Whedon’s Runaways are dealing with a lot more mature themes than Vaughan’s. But make no mistake: if the characters can suddenly take heavier material at the same time a new writer comes on board, that is not character development. That’s lazy writing.

Do we really need another comic book about sex and violence? I think Whedon doesn’t have the talent to write about the more subtle things in life, that Runaways used to touch on.

Runaways was a coming of age story that reminded us all of a time when, to us at least, our parents really were evil. It had kids of all ages to talk about themes of social awkwardness, and trying to be respected among adults (“A person’s a person no matter how small”).

Now, it’s just another comic book by the big two. You have your girl in the fridge, you have your two page fighting scene, and, to Whedon’s credit, you have all of this shit taking way too much time to be released and one favorite character (this time Molly) with all the good lines.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Give it up, Whedon and you’ll do everyone a favor.

*I DON’T automatically count people being tied up as BDSM, but when there’s an obvious erection reference… yes. Yes, it is. p. 6, frame 2 of issue #29, “Do you think that’s the worst you can feel? My staff isn’t even warm.”