Sewing, heroes, webcomicshelp?

[torrain_circles]

So, kakkoi_hakujin walks up to me today and says "I hear you're a seamstress. I need a favour." And I put a shot of cinnamon whiskey in the Coke, because the scar from the last seamstressing hasn't gone away yet and I don't have my sewing machine handy and, you know, I'm passably good at it but still cringe when asked to do it for someone else in case I screw it up. But the drastic shortening and gentle tweaking of the jacket went well enough. Thread-fiddling may occur later.

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Furthermore, I have decided that while I'm happy to read well-done dark and grim fiction with superheroes, I occasionally just want death-defying action and wonderful strange monsters and quips and a hero with style and grace and little bit of fencing skill. They'd never torture, they'd never lie, honour a promise if it meant they'd die... (Anyone recognize that without Googling it? Man, Wildberry coolers bring out my inner geek.) And you know, I started reading comic books for that. And I can't find it in comics anymore. They got serious sometime when I wasn't looking, and some of it's good, and a little of it's great, but it's not always what I want.

So I'm watching Doctor Who. Because I *will* have my dose of unabashed heroism,dammit.[1]

Speaking of which, Danny, this link's for you. Includes Daleks.

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Also: I have discovered that I would like more webcomics to read. So... uhm... suggest a currently updating webcomic, and if I haven't seen it yet and like it, I'll draw you an icon or something? (Two if it updates exclusively on some combination of Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.)
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[1] David Tennant is additional appeal.

Comments

[jagash.livejournal.com]

http://www.evil-comic.com/d/20050530.html
http://goblinscomic.com/d/20050626.html

Hope you enjoy one or two more of them.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Know 'em both, sorry. Thanks, though.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2002-05-27 any better?

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Nope. (Have you finished catching up on it yet? I recall you mentioned you were working on that a couple of weeks ago.)

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Not yet caught up to it.

Scraping the bottom of the proverbial barrel

http://www.belph.com/ Which i don't believe is currently updating or
http://www.blastwavecomic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=1

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Ohhh. Blastwave has a certain appeal. (Belph, not so much, also not updating.) Icon-age?

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Cool, can i trade the icon-age for feedback on my many (aka 3) deviations in my new DA account? (http://jagash.deviantart.com/)

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Without even looking, I am inclined to say no. Icons are easy and fun. Evaluation and coherent analysis are hard.

(And between the 23K word story and the cat food and the antibiotics and the hour and change sewing and the daily travel to the cat-sitting that I have been doing for assorted people, I am about out of hard favours for the fortnight.)

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. :) Icons good though i am low on space for myself. *ebil grin* How about one for Angela to replace the disasters i seem to foist on her.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

That I can do. Any suggestions for what she'd like?

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Probably something involving either the kanji for Oni + Neko or something matching Chaos Cat.

[jasmine-koran.livejournal.com]

8bit Theatre (http://www.nuklearpower.com/), particularly relevant for Final Fantasy 1 fans.

Something Positive (http://www.somethingpositive.net/), assuming you aren't reading it already.

Home on the Strange (http://www.homeonthestrange.com/), geek married life.

Two Lumps (http://www.twolumps.net/), for the discriminating cat fan.

VG Cats (http://www.vgcats.com/). We have comics about gamers and comics about cats...what about a comic about gaming cats?!

This is a link to an example website (http://www.giantitp.com/), a stereotypical DM is transported into a fantasy world in resoponse to an overlord's desperate need for a strategist. This one's actually a "serious" story as well as being a really clever parody of all the typical D&D tropes.

DM of the Rings (http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612/), what if "The Lord of the Rings" was actually a tabletop game created by your typical jaded DM and played by your typical dungeon-crawlers? Made with screencaps from the movies.

Oh, and did the BPAL arrive yet? :)

[jasmine-koran.livejournal.com]

Damn, link screwed up. That sixth one is actually called "Giant in the Playground" or, "Erfworld". Here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0001.html) is a link to the first comic.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

...I've seen them all, and currently read all but the 8bit Theatre and VG Cats (not sure why they don't particularly grab me, but suspect it's something to do with still being able to count the number of computer games I've played, ever, on all my digits).

BPAL not in yet. I blame it on the Monday civic holiday.

[jasmine-koran.livejournal.com]

ALL of them? Dayum, woman, you be high-maintenance.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Both ones at the GiantITP site, too. I even bought John the second OOTS book after he hooked me on the strip.

Currently my Monday reading list is about forty comics, and maybe five of them are on hiatus. Saturdays and Sundays have eight and nine.

...uhm, yes. I'm not sure *why* I thought I needed more webcomics, but it seems a sound conclusion...

[jasmine-koran.livejournal.com]

Mac Hall no longer updates...Sexy Losers no longer updates...Girly (http://go-girly.com/) still updates, though only once a week at the moment...Triangle & Robert (http://home.comcast.net/~pshaughn/tandr.html) updates every day, but it's ending this summer...
...and that's about my whole reading list.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

*grin* I remember Sexy Losers. Good times, utterly NSFW.

Have seen Girly in passing, will take another look; have never heard of Triangle & Roberts. Work-safe?

[jasmine-koran.livejournal.com]

Very much so. The main characters are a triangle and a rhombus. It starts out really rough but gets surprisingly epic as the writer hits his stride.

[orrin.livejournal.com]

Man, I hear ya on the comic books thing. There's certainly good stuff going on out there, but almost all of it is too "gritty." Or at least grittier than I would frequently like. Honestly this is true of most stuff that I read nowadays, not just comic books. The days of simple joys and rousing heroism and raw entertainment seem to be gone, or at least on hiatus.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I *totally* recommend the adventures of the Tenth Doctor (and, going from TV to prose, F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack series is pretty good).

Doctor Who's a kid's show. It always was. That it's a kid's adventure show with a hero that doesn't insult the intelligence of the viewers makes it what I'm looking for.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

http://www.malfunctionjunction.net/

Updates about once a week. Has plenty of archives, and pretty funny. theweaselking may like it more than you.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Hmh. Have seen it, am looking at it again, and it's holding my interest. Icon-age?

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Give me some time to think about it.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

For the supers stuff have you tried DC and Marvel's "kids" lines? DC has comics based in their Animated Universe and Marvel has Marvel Adventures. Also maybe Invincible from Image. Its got a high gore content, but the main character especially fits the requirements you ask for in a super-hero type...

As for webcomics, a bit harder. You seem to read a large number already and being at work makes it harder to think of what off my 100+ trawl list might appeal to you...

Shlock Mercenary? A Girl & her Fed? Brat-halla? Digger?

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I'm currently boycotting both Marvel and DC-except-Vertigo, for gritty whining and creepy misogyny respectively (although, you know, they do swap back and forth).

(Shockingly enough, this has not cut down on the series I currently follow at all, and wouldn't even if I included Vertigo, so it is largely symbolic. But I was hella relieved when I found out I didn't need to cancel any of my subs.)

A Girl and her Fed and Brat-halla I don't know. Will take a look. Are they work-safe?

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

A Girl and her Fed (http://www.agirlandherfed.com/) has some swearing and talk about sex. Brat-halla (http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/brathalla.php) has that kind of nudity where everyone is ALWAYS standing at the perfect angle so the reader can't actually see anything. Actually flipping back several days, you do get the occasional butt shot...

[kookiemaster.livejournal.com]

I share your feeling about doing somethijng for someone else, even if I'm comfortable doing it for me, there is always the terrifying possiblity of a screwup. I was also scarred by a game where I did a costume for the s.o. using a pattern of his choice and he got all pissed off because I won best costume (back in the days when it meant xps) instead of him ... half implying that I did a better job on mine than thim on purpose .

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Ew. Never fun. I recall John had to bug me for months before I drew him that little weasel-with-sledgehammer icon...

[orrin.livejournal.com]

In webcomics, I guess there's xkcd (http://www.xkcd.com/).

[torrain.livejournal.com]

*grin* Seen it several times, but had not previously added it. Icon-age?