Schlock in the Kitchen Howard Tayler was good enough to give me several suggestions for cooking from the schlockiverse. There is a lot of food in the fifteen years of the daily Schlock Mercenary, and it was fun to figure out just which one I was going to do. I didn’t have time to do… Read More Eat This while you Read That: Schlock Mercenary
I know I’ve talked many times about my favorite webcomics, but I’m coming back to it again. For one thing, they are a daily habit. With my morning cuppa, I skim through anywhere from 2 to ten webcomics. For another thing, I said somewhere else recently that I never read comic books as a child.… Read More A Confluence of Art and Writing
So the first is just a little bump on the behind, and the second is full out laughing one’s head off at the coming disaster. I’ve mentioned before I follow a few retro-recipe blogs, for amusement and potential recipe ideas. This one popped up into my email this morning, and as I looked at the… Read More Car Wrecks and Egg Wrecks
“That’s because you think of hope as something light and fragile. My version of hope has calluses and dirt under the fingernails and isn’t past bringing brass knuckles to a fight.” -freefall 10/30/2013 by Mark Stanley I like this webcomic, always have. But this description of hope as a metaphor grabbed me, today. I have… Read More “That’s because…
I didn’t grow up with comic books. Or comic strips, even, as there was no newspaper delivery out in the Alaskan Bush where I spent most of my childhood. So I came to comics rather late in life. I can remember tracking down Gary Larsen comics whenever possible, and Calvin & Hobbes, and when I… Read More A word about comics
“Is it possible that intelligence is an aphrodisiac?” That single line caught my attention in a Schlock Mercenary strip one day, and took me from an occasional reader to a daily follower. The intelligence of the strip balances neatly with guffaw-out-loud moments that, truly, made me fall in love with it. If you enjoy mad… Read More Schlock Mercenary
Before you hurt me, there’s two reasons for that. One, for the last decade or so, I’ve worked non-traditional hours, so Monday tends to be my day off (for relative dfinitions of ‘off’). Second, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I get the whole list of webcomics I enjoy… So that’s what today is, me sharing my… Read More I like Mondays…