Mar 01 2006
CBS News | Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Car | February 21, 2006?00:55:43
The “big thee” Detroit automakers claim that the technology to raise car fuel economy ratings would be “prohibitive” maybe ought to talk to these kids from high school auto shop who built a car that can go 0 to 60 in four seconds on soy-based biodiesel.
Feb 23 2006
There’s a full-on nerdfest discussion going on at newsarama.com about what comics characters in all the “comics universe” should be able to lift Thor’s hammer. Here’s my answer:
Feb 18 2006
I received a my monthly shipment of comics and related books and magazines yesterday and among the items included was the new Comics Journal. Today I was on my way out the door to go swim a few laps at the YMCA and it occured to me that, being a weekend, I needn’t rush back home post-swimming to work—I could spend a few minutes baking in the sauna. The problem with the sauna though is that it’s unbelievably boring…just hanging out in there sweating and staring at the walls. “I’ll take the new Comics Journal with me to read in the sauna,” I thought, “That’ll help pass the time” and out the door I went.
Let me tell you something: Fantagraphics, the publishers of the Journal, are known for their high production values, but don’t ever take a copy of the Comics Journal into a sauna! You see, the magazine is square-bound, rather than stapled together, and once it reaches the temperature of the sauna—around 180 degrees—the glue along the spine that holds the pages reverts to its gooey liquid state…and then the magazine pretty much just disinitigrates.
On the bright side, I jammed all the pages back in while the glue was still wet and, now that it’s cool again, they appear to have re-attached themselves.
This is why comic book entheusiasts are rarely also atheletes.
Feb 16 2006
From Dustin of HeroesCon:
All signs point to a sellout (of Indie Island and artists’ alley), possibly before this weekend. In fact, if I were you I would call us up rather than wait to get something in by mail. We’re not really going to publish a warning or anything. 704.375.7462–with the quickness!
Worth noting as well is that they now have entirely sold out two downtown hotels, both “convention block” and non-block rooms.
Rarely has a jerky move like Wizard’s attempt to squeeze out HeroesCon this year paid off any greater bounty for the intended victim than in this particular case…
Feb 14 2006
A new installment of my instructional comics “how-to” column, Notes from the Gutter, is posted at SilverBulletComics
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