#atomic diner

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Baby Butterdrop is managing to obscure most of the chips on that plate!

In Oxford, in England.

[ajgoestoeurope]

Got to meet the Simpsons (minus Bart) at Atomic Diner in Bristol, England.

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Baby Butterdrop is looking at all the ponies pinned up above the bar at the Atomic Diner.

In Oxford, England.

[travelling-my-little-pony]

These ponies (and others) are part of the permanent display at The Atomic Diner, on the Cowley Road in Oxford.

In England.

(Nope, I haven’t yet gone in there on a pogo stick...)

[iukasylvie]

[iukasylvie]

Fionn of the Fianna - Past's Prologue - Paperback

From 2nd century pagan Éiru by way of mid-20th century independent Ireland, for the first time the early deeds of Fionn Mac Cumhaill are tol

Today, I found out about Fionn of the Fianna - Past's Prologue by Rob Curley, Turlough Delaney, and Kevin Keane when I looked up the words "Irish comics" on Twitter.

This graphic novel is based on the Irish myth of Fionn mac Cumhaill and the art style struck me as closer to my taste than most other comics I've ever seen from outside Japan.

I would like to order it after the Japanese translation of Making Comics by Scott McCloud arrives.

[thecomicon]

The Bog Road: An Enchanting Walk Through Irish Mythology

The Bog Road: An Enchanting Walk Through Irish Mythology

It’s a battle of man versus nature in Barry Keegan’s The Bog Road, a comic steeped in Irish mythology that’s proven resistant to Google, but is no less fascinating for that (John Bracken might be human, for instance, but his last name’s association with a common, poisonous fern says a lot about where humans stand in this story).

When the graphic novel begins, Bracken has gone against the Creature…

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[ajgoestoeurope]

Shout out to The Atomic Diner in Bristol, England. A sci-fi nerds wet dream. Such a cool place. Food was decent as well. And I got to meet the Simpsons!