Short Stories, Long Stories

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It’s Galentine’s Day! Name your Favorite Comic Galentines!

Galentines is a wonderful gift from Leslie Knope and Ann Perkins to celebrate female friendships and it should be celebrated every year! I always wish my fellow female comics commentators a happy day and a few years back ran a contest to name the favorite DC Gaentines (it was a tie between Cass/Steph and Dinah/Babs). So who is yours? Marvel Galentines too!

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Avengers Academy #23

Art by: Rodin Esquejo

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Amazing technique

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Glenfinnan Viaduct Book Sculpture

Latest book sculpture created for Visit Scotland by Thomas Wightman. The brief was to illustrate a memory of Scotland through a book paper sculpture. Using a book seemed the right medium for telling this story. The chosen memory was a train journey over the Glenfinnan Viaduct bridge, which is an iconic scottish landmark made famous thanks to the Harry Potter film series. The sculpture illustrates the rugged scottish landscape, the famous curved glenfinnan bridge and shows a small steam train making its way across.   The book sculpture will be displayed at the launch of the ScotSpirit campaign in Edinburgh. An event that celebrates the spirit of a nation to share inspirational stories and experiences about Scotland.

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Gail Simone is on a tear on twitter this morning.

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Women In Refrigerators: Gail Simone On the List That Illustrated the Problem With Female Comic Characters

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Presidential election

It really ticks me off that nobody bothered to even look at the other canidates. It's like only picking Wario and Walugi in supermario cart when you have other players to choose from.

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I do not understand why some of the people that are following me are doing so. I would like to know why because this makes no sense at all.

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School post#1

Dear kids everywhere,

In any class never say “this is easy” or something along those lines, it’s not easy for everyone.

Don’t be a douche and judge others when they have yet to finish their work and say things like “they should be done, what have they been doing this whole time?” Not everyone works at the same pace buddy.

Lastly, rape isn’t funny. I will never understand why kids go around singing “funny” songs about it and cracking jokes.

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Let’s take a second to appreciate that, 1) Wonder Woman is only wanting to subdue Aquaman not beat him relentlessly. 2) Her water-proof makeup is amazing.

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It’s not the history that makes comics inaccessible; it’s the refusal to explain it within the story so that it reads better when collected in a series of books.

http://www.comicscube.com/2011/06/how-is-dc-reaching-out-to-new-readers.html?m=1

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Don't read Animal Farm where an animal can hear you

I was reading “Animal Farm” by George Orwell a few days ago and I had been reading it out loud until I realized my dog was on my bed giving me this weird look.

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Do you ever want to watch old movies so you Google it and find the weirdest images and you just look at the image really confused as to what’s going on and it’s just…