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#81
General / Stickleback 2: Dizzy Annotations!
16 December, 2007, 07:35:52 PM
I love Mr. Brooker's work more than any man shouldcare to admit, and here he is blogging notes and sketches from his latest masterpiece.

Link: http://disraeli-demon.blogspot.com/2007/01/notes-from-cupboard-of-doom.html" target="_blank">Ivor Strikes Back!

#82
Off Topic / Web-fu Question: clickable maps.
11 October, 2007, 07:34:28 PM
Don't normally pester the rest of the Squaxx with techie questions, but here goes...

We're trying to do a clickable map with links to previous projects for our website in work (I insist on doing these thinsg in house, based on horrifc past experiences), and using Dreamweaver 8 "hotspots" produced a pretty nice one.  

Of course, that was viewing it in IE.  Firefox and Safari views are a total disaster, with hotspots wandering free across the map depending on the size of the window.  Particularly annoying since we'e a Safari-based office.

My question:  is there any way to make a clickable map browser-independent, without investing in more expensive software?
#83
Books & Comics / More Lilly!
31 August, 2007, 11:20:46 AM
Simon Fraser has two more pages of Lilly McKenzie up today, but the bastard stiffs us on the details of the gay gnome's cunning plan!  This is by far the best serial on the web, terrific stuff.  Be nice to see this appear in the Meg in more than review-panel format.

Link: http://simonfraser.net/Lilly-archive5.htm

#84
Off Topic / What WERE you thinking?
02 August, 2007, 09:33:50 AM
With tragic inevitability, everyone who stops yapping for five seconds will get asked the immortal question: "What are you thinking?".  Now after many, many years my beloved has learnt not to ask (or at least has accepted that she doesn't actually want to know), but the question remains.  When last you were asked, what were you thinking?

For me, it was wondering how spaceships in Star Wars brake when all their engines are at the back.  You?
#85
Off Topic / Sheard-iana Redux
19 June, 2007, 02:05:13 PM
While indulging my unseemly Star Wars habit, I noticed that LFL have finally given Admiral Ozzel (the late great Sheard himself) a first name:  Kendall (as in "yes, YOU, boy!").  

At least someone is awake over there... (possibly Timothy Zahn, since it was one of his novels I first espied this factoid).
#86
Chapter 1 of Simon Fraser's Lilly McKenzie and the Mines of Charybdis wraps up today - 14 pages of excellence, with a very BD vibe.  Link below, enjoy.

Link: http://simonfraser.net/Lilly-archive.htm" target="_blank">Chapter One

#87
Off Topic / Groth, Ellison and... Fleischer?
07 May, 2007, 08:07:27 PM
Some fascinating slagging going on over on The Beat between Gary Groth and Harlan Ellison, but the bit that caught my eye was a reference to our own M. Fleischer having sued Fantagraphics in 1987 over a personal slur by Ellison (I think).  Anyone know any more about this?

I'm sure many of us on this board hope Fleischer isn't the litigious type...

Link: http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/03/when-gary-met-shannon" target="_blank">http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/03/when-gary-met-shannon

#88
General / Big Robots Splash
29 January, 2007, 10:07:07 PM
Dave Taylor has updated his blog with a two-page splash from his Anderson epic, which seems to have been on the way for years now.  Looks worth the wait - cool Ezquerran hardware in the background.

Link: http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Check out those H-Wagons!

#89
Links / Glycon on Myspace
11 January, 2007, 11:19:08 AM
Wowzers, Alan Moore is in your Extended Network!  Not.

Predictably, it's bollocks.  Check out Leah Moore's comment at the bottom of the page.  Still, some nice clips and biblio.  

Link: http://www.myspace.com/tworiderswereapproaching" target="_blank">William Blake too...

#90
General / Stickleback Annotations
09 January, 2007, 07:22:33 PM
Dunno if anyone else has emntioned this, but Dizzy has annotations for Stickleback on his always-interesting site, including some interesting hints about the Red Seas.  Also on there is an awesome set of articles about Alberto Breccia.  

Link: http://disraeli-demon.blogspot.com/2007/01/references-in-stickleback-parts-1-2.html" target="_blank">The J'Olly C'Ripple.

#91
Books & Comics / New Year Pick-me-up: Immortal
02 January, 2007, 10:21:01 AM
Chained to a sinking desk on January 2nd, I search the interweb for something to assuage the horror of returning to work.  And I found the below-linked revelation!  Learn that doomed love is not just for the Emo huddle, but a blowtorch that can destroy or create whole worlds, through the medium of comics!  Quite good, this Haspiel fella.  

Link: http://www.deanhaspiel.com/immortal.html" target="_blank">Dean Haspiel's Immortal

#92
Off Topic / Westboro Baptist Church at it again.
08 October, 2006, 07:21:01 PM
Last time we visited those crazy Westboro folks I almost thought it was an Onion-esque parody.  Not this time.  Don't touch that link if you don't want to get quite upset.  

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217975,00.html" target="_blank">You were warned

#93
Off Topic / Oi, Nordies! Belfast question.
06 October, 2006, 06:00:13 PM
The missus, the sprog and I are on a day out tomorrow, traipsing all the way up to Belfast for some international adventure (different money and everything!).  Since there is likely to be 'shopping' involved, and seeing as Halo and I are in agreement on this one, I seek the advice of all of our resident Prods and Taig, irrespective of inter-pupil measurements.  I know and like Belfast pretty well, but since the suspicious demise of Dark Horizons (or whatever it was called, where the big VIctoria Square development hole is now?), Forbidding Prices seems to be the only nerdly game in town.  

Anyone know of *any* other shops in/around Belfast that might help with my Comics/Star Wars/Lego habits, and thus offset the possible impact on my 5 month-old son of too much Dorothy Perkins?  C'mon you nordie bastards, even your inbred southern cousins in Dublin can boast four helathy nerd shoppes!

#94
General / Paging PVS!
01 October, 2006, 06:17:48 AM
I  was trying to sort Paul out with the great Red-and-White Tape project, but we got separated by 'the Incident'.  I tried e-mailing him on an address that Wake forwarded to me, but no reply.  

If you're out there Paul, let me know if you still need that stuff!  Otherwise, anyone know how to get hold of PVS?  I have his snailmail, but was hoping for something quicker.
#95
General / Liam Sharp Interview
14 September, 2006, 10:48:50 PM
A short Sharp interview here.

Link: http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/interviews/interview.php?id=235" target="_blank">Pixelsurgeon

#96
General / TPO: The Kim Raymond Enigma
14 September, 2006, 12:35:30 AM
Da Bish's thoroughly entertaining TPO Blog threw up this gem:

"City of the Damned suffered an ailment common to mega-epics, using four different artists to keep the strip going. Steve Dillon launched the story but Ron Smith, Gibson and Kim Raymond had to be brought in to meet deadline pressures. Grant is still angry about the last of those artist â??Fuck! Fuck! We tried and tried to stop Kim Raymond ever doing Dredd again. We called up every fucking week to complain about it. Some really poor artists have done Dredd and Kim Raymond did the worst Dredds of all. It stank! Iâ??ve seen other Kim Raymond art and it wasnâ??t bad, but it was like he missed the point of Dredd â?? maybe he was trying to rush it out. Ugly art.â??"

Okay, I'll admit, I just don't get it.  I know we've been over this before, but what exacly did Alan (and John, presumably) have against Kim Raymond on Dredd?  I loved his work at the time, and I think it still holds up well.  I'll cite the terrific Rookie Dekker storyline as my key witness.  Anyone know what in particular offended them?

Link: http://thrillpoweroverload.blogspot.com/2006/08/hanging-with-halo-jones.html" target="_blank">Bisho-blog

#97
Books & Comics / Yeowell's 'Last of the Mohicans'
13 September, 2006, 05:56:45 PM
Anyone know any more about Mr. Owl's rather nice splash page on the CSBG blog?  Me like!

Link: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/12/watching-the-river-flow-for-baltimore-retailer-conference/#more-1547" target="_blank">Scroll down a bit...

#98
News / McCarthy in Solo #12
30 August, 2006, 02:57:27 PM
In case anyone didn't know, Brendan McCarthy gets control of the frequently-great 'Solo' for Issue 12, which I think may be its last issue.  
#99
Books & Comics / Alan Moore Interview: Lost Girls
08 August, 2006, 12:50:38 AM
Very good Moore interview over on the Onion AV Club.

Link: http://www.avclub.com/content/node/51180/print/" target="_blank">It's all filth, filth I tells ya...

#100
Other Reviews / JD Casefiles 4
31 July, 2006, 05:30:49 PM

Bought Casefiles 4 on Friday morn (FP Dublin), and I'm STILL reading it.  Awesome piece of kit and no mistake.  I was a bit dubious about buying past Vol. 3, as I have most of the Judge Child, Fink and Chopper stories in both collections and loose progs, and sundry other bits and bobs from the late 100's, but really, this is the ONLY way to read Dredd.  As with 'The Day the Law Died', reading the individual storylines is one thing, but reading them in context with what went before and after is entirely more statisfying.  I now know that I'll be staying on board until at least the 300s, maybe beyond.  Top marks, folk, top marks.

A personal highpoint was a surprising reappreciation of the end of the Judge Child story, always previously filed in my head alongside 'City of the Damned' and 'Doomsday' as "crushing anti-climax'. In fact, the final episode may be the moment that Dredd really took off as a unique character, moving beyond his simple 'tenacious future lawman' personna to really show the granite he's made of.  The 'Block War' epilogue may be the best Dredd episode of its era, on every level.    

One niggle:  It'd be great if one of the slimmer future  volumes could include a 'Creator Index' to all this material, maybe just culled wholesale from Da Bish's much-missed series.  I might know who Emberton, Howard, Alvin Gaunt, Q Twerk and TB Grover are, and if not I can look it up right here, but it still gets bloody confusing just working off the Credit Cards.  It'd make an already utterly essential purchase even more so.