c/o devour
Tagged: comics
- Coding Horror: Make Your Email Hacker Proof
“Your email is the skeleton key to your online identity. When you lose control of your email to a hacker – not if, but when you lose control of your email to a hacker – the situation is dire. Email is a one stop shop for online identity theft. You should start thinking of security for your email as roughly equivalent to the sort of security you’d want on your bank account. It’s exceedingly close to that in practice.
“The good news, at least if you use GMail, is that you can make your email virtually hacker-proof today, provided you own a cell phone. The fancy geek technical term for this is two factor authentication, but that doesn’t matter right now. What matters is that until you turn this on, your email is vulnerable. So let’s get started. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Right. Freaking. Now.”
- BRmovie.com: Blade Runner Comic
Didn’t know there was a Marvel Blade Runner comic tie-in that serves as an alternate cut as it’s adapted from the script. Available to read online.
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Ghost Rider & Gary Friedrich & Marvel
Ghost Rider by IronHide, on Flickr
So with all the talk about SOPA and SIPA and ACTA and copyright and piracy, how come Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich has lost all rights to his creation to Marvel Characters Inc, and has been counter sued by Marvel Characters Inc? Intellectual copyright seems screwed up somewhere if all we are doing is protecting companies and not individuals.
Steve Niles is raising money for Gary Friedrich
Craig Thompson on Habibi
Loved Blankets, seven (or six) years later here’s Craig Thomson’s presenting Habibi. On my to buy list.
Books In Browsers 2011: Pablo Defendini, “Adaptive Web Design”
c/o boingboing: Responsive design works for websites, why not for digital comic books?
Responsive comic Sly Mongoose
Sly Mongoose
Eye Candy
I’ve been thinking about the tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips link (while working on a longer piece on Cleavage in TV (to follow)), and the Supergirl collection that was tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips and that comics are generally written by males for a male audience, and a teen male audience at that, and that, like prOn, there needs to be a man in the sex scene but men don’t want the sex scenes to focus on the man (gay!), comics have male heroes but if they were all ass ‘n’ pouty lips it wouldn’t work for the teen male audience (gay!) who like the eye candy the tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips girls provide because they are not identifying with the females they are identifying with the males, and to have the male character/superhero be all the tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips would jar them out of their fantasy (gay!) , and that therefore to read a comic as a female must be annoying* because like, say, an Englishman reading a comic written for Mexicans about Mexicans with the odd clichéd Englishman the Englishman would stand out as clichéd and annoying (especially if they were the tits n ass n pouty lips (and gay (gay!)), but yet there are intelligent comics written by males with female characters, and Superhero comics written by women, so..?
And that I found Superdog annoying in Batman (Hush), and it jarred me out of my fanatasy (don’t go there, not a point I’m trying to make).
Superdog...
…and that I really wasn’t quite sure where I was going with this, but would a picture of Charlie Dimmock be justified to make some sort of point about how Batman may not be tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips in Hush while Poison Ivy (see above) obviously is, there is a real world example in how Allan Titmarsh (not pictured) wasn’t tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips on the Gardening program and yet Charlie Dimmock was? And then, when searching for an appropriate picture of Charlie Dimmock which I found, I noticed the url of the site with the picture was bapwatch.com and I gave up.
* A “Bechdel Test” for comics?
See also: Female Friendships: Image Not Found?
“I like to read comics about girl friendships. I’ll admit that as a blanket statement that sounds both absurd and really broad, but it’s the truth. I like to see my favourite female characters, hanging out, being friends or colleagues and pretty much having a good time.”
See also: For The Good Of Fandom - Comic covers that objectify male super-hero underwear perverts
Frank Miller vs Male Equivelent?
See also: Catwoman Porn?
Tits out, ass out, lips pouty, legs spread, hips cocked, eyelids at half mast.
A few days ago read “Dressed to Kill”…
“It’s not the characters’ bodies themselves that are the biggest problem, but how they are dressed and posed. Tits out, ass out, lips pouty, legs spread, hips cocked, eyelids at half mast. Outfits that make Wonder Woman’s star spangled panties look fit for a Mormon picnic. Short skirts, cutouts, stilettos, fishnets, thigh-highs. I’m not describing Playboy here.” – Megan Rosalarian Gedris, Dressed to Kill
Which made this “Awesome Supergirl Collection” stand out even more.
Supergirl by Batuzer
- CIA : Operation Ajax for iPad on the iTunes App Store
“This is the complete 210 page edition, an interactive graphic novel that tells the true story of the first CIA-backed coup which toppled Iran’s democracy in 1953.” - Find and download movie subtitles from multiple sources with Sublight | freewaregenius.com
“This program can connect to multiple subtitle sources from within Windows, and will quickly overlay and preview various available subtitles onto your local video files to help you make quick decisions on whether the subtitles are the ones you want, and whether they are in sync. Note that Sublight is not free without restrictions”
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- Echofi – Better Spotify Radio
“Sick of Spotify radio that has no relevance to your tastes? Simply open Spotify and enter an artist in the box below to hear a radio station that you’ll love.” - visipisi
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- Facebook acquires Gowalla to boost Timeline team – Dec. 2, 2011
As soon as I heard I deleted my Gowalla account. I’ve been using Foursquare and never quite took to Gowalla, but didn’t mind it – although I never quite understood the dropping and collecting items gamification aspect. But I don’t need to share even more crap with Facebook. I have a FB account, but as deactivated as it can be without “deleting” it altogether.
- The Honest Alan Moore Interview – Part 2: The Occupy Movement, Frank Miller, and Politics
- The Honest Alan Moore Interview – Part 1: Publishing and Kindle
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- Visual Representations of Over-Used Movie Poster Clichés | HYPENOTICE.COM
Brilliant c/o @D_NS - Little Printer | BERG Cloud
“Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.” c/o umm…
- “A Bit Amish” Comics Legend Alan Moore Goes Online To Honor Harvey Pekar | Fast Company
Moore: “I tend to think that most people we know are an accumulation of ideas that we have about them. Our impressions and what they mean to us is kind of immortal, because we take their ideas with us.”Moore: ”It struck me that people who work on superhero comics for a living don’t display a great deal of courage in their actual lives. They spend their existence writing and drawing impossibly noble men who stand for the oppressed and champion the underdog, while never forming a union or raising a squeak of protest as the giants of the industry go to their graves as abused, cheated old men.”
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