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kusonaga, posting in scans_daily @ 11:32 am: When Matt met Luke: Marvel Knights #11
So, last time I was here I posted some pages from the 2000 series Marvel Knights, a fun little exercise into street level team-building, featuring Daredevil assembling a team to take down the Punisher and for about fifteen issues, taking on various threats of a superpowered kind. The team was originally just Daredevil, Black Widow, Shang-Chi and Dagger (from Cloak and Dagger), but the group got an expansion in issue #5 with the inclusion of Moon Knight. The latter thought the team needed some organising (y'know, some actual being a team) and in issue #11, he brought in Luke Cage for some reinforcements.

This is a response to starwolf oakley's recent post, featuring Cage's interaction with DD in the pages of Bendis' Daredevil.

Scans not mine. Written by Chuck Dixon, drawn by Ed Barreto. 7/22.





Tags: character: black widow/natasha romanova, character: dagger/tandy bowen, character: daredevil/matt murdock, character: moon knight/marc spector, character: power man/luke cage, character: shang-chi, creator: chuck dixon, creator: ed barreto, title: marvel knights

thanekos, posting in scans_daily @ 10:55 am: The Opening Defense In The Human Game
so, the Human Defence Corps.

Currently the unit General Sam "Wade Eiling 1.1" Lane's in command of, they were created under the Luthor administration to be the one armed gov't group gunning after non-baseline threats that was actually public.

(  And they know what they're doing, surprisingly.  )

Tags: creator: norm breyfogle, creator: ty templeton, group: human defense corps, publisher: dc comics

arbre_rieur, posting in scans_daily @ 10:02 pm: More FIRST WAVE
...at DC's Source blog.



Tags: creator: brian azzarello, creator: rags morales, publisher: dc comics, title: first wave

greenwitch @ 11:59 pm: Pumpkin Soup!

Not sure when this turned into a food blog, but that seems to be what I’m working on lately. And since the fabulous Juliana is requesting pumpkin recipes (and since I didn’t get around to making my chili today after all), that’s what you’ll get…

A friend passed this along to me a few years ago, so I’m not sure of the source. I also tend not to measure much, and I can say that the only time I’ve ever screwed this one up is when I added too much pumpkin and didn’t balance it out with extra spices. So really, everything is approximate and spice to taste. Also, I’m writing this from memory so forgive the lack of exact step-by-step directions.

Pumpkin Soup

4+ cups broth
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped onion
1 15oz can pumpkin
1 tsp sage
1 tsp thyme
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 chopped cooked potato (optional, to thicken)

Directions

1. Saute onion and celery for about 5 minutes in a bit of olive oil.
2. Add half the broth and spices (and potato, if you want). Simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Take off heat and puree in blender or food processor.
4. Return to heat, add the rest of the broth and stir in pumpkin.
5. Simmer for another 10-15 minutes.

I usually end up adding extra vegetables and with about 6 cups of broth by the end. It’s pretty hard to screw this one up, as long as you don’t burn the onions.

Mirrored from December Project. Comments are preferred there.

Tags: pumpkin addict

cyberghostface, posting in scans_daily @ 10:46 pm: The Enigma of Amigara Fault




Tags: creator: junji ito, genre: horror, medium: manga

mugetsu, posting in asylum_promo @ 04:14 am: Batman, The Joker, Vagrant Story, The Pirates of Dark Water fandom asylums
octopon - Pirates of DarkWater fandom asylum. Completed!

gotham_gazetteCompleted!</i>

vagrant_story - Vagrant Story fandom asylum. WIP; will be deleted unless more interest is shown.

And,

Please feel free to join commedia; a personal project of mine, aiming to review and analyze comics (and other selected media) that feature DC Comics' The Joker.

It is currently a WIP because I am still going through my 500+ hardcopy!issues collection. I do not download torrents/scans.

I'd like to point out that currently I have two polls up for debate, as can be seen here explaining two routes the asylum's project can take. IE: spoiler free reviews, spoilerific reviews, and whatnot. =) Otherwise, the FAQ and The Rules are already up. The tags/memory post is still a WIP.

I am also open to affiliating with other comic book and/or Batman related asylums, except for RPGs.

the_shoshanna @ 11:08 pm: signal boost: online job fair
via wintercreek:

Social networking working for you: copperbadge is running a job fair/"temp agency" in his comments. If you're looking for work (or will be soon), you can drop a screened comment there now. If you're looking to hire or have possible leads for others, you can respond to the comments when they open in 36 hours. [about 31 hours as I type this --t-s]

Anything's worth a shot in this economic climate, right?

As for me, I just knocked off work for the day at 11:05 pm. I must do as much tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, usw. Woot.

(I'm still not sorry I went. But I can see sorry from here.)

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carolyn_claire @ 08:52 pm: Physically. Ill.
The Man is watching SGU, and I'm in the living room on a work break, so I'm seeing parts of it, too.  This has happened before, I've caught parts of it while he watches, and it's mostly been boring with sides of skanky, though every time Greer is on doing the "Mad Dog" character (or whatever inappropriate thing it was they chose to call the black character), I wince.  Watching Ming Na's character be a cowardly bitch has been less than enjoyable, too.  (Now we know what the "context" will be that they claim will make what they'll do to her all a-okay!  She's a bitch and she deserves it!  *gags*)  But from what I've seen in tonight's episode, just half an episode, I'm beyond appalled.  The way they treat women on this show is HEINOUS.  I can't believe anyone watches this show and enjoys it who thinks of herself as a feminist, even remotely.  YES, I said it and I'm not taking it back.  TPTB are deliberately presenting their beloved young male demographic with these disgusting abuses of women as titillation, completely unapologetically. Seriously, people, this is wrong, and Syfy needs to hear how we feel about it. 

DO NOT comment to me about how you really don't think it's so bad.  Really, don't.  If I know you, I'd like to think better of you than that.  If I don't, I guarantee I won't want to if you say that here.

poisontaster @ 10:19 pm: This is the Sound of One Head, Desking
All my mini_nanowrimo peeps; please note that there's an important announcement on the comm. Anyone who has forgotten to post on a given day so far has a ONE TIME chance to recoup. If you would, spread the word.

Yesterday was a bad day and a bad day for writing. I made my word count, but I've been trying to do double or triple that every day and yesterday I wasn't even close.

On the other hand, the words I wrote were on Appetite, which pleases me. I don't want to let AKB stagnate all month (and there's no worry about that) but Appetite is really my focus. Or I would prefer it was my focus. I've been flitting between three different projects, really.

Started AKB 73 today. Writing for four year olds is HARD, yo.

I'm struggling with Appetite. I'm making new words, I don't hate the words I'm making (for the most part) but at the same time, I feel like I've lost some essential grasp of their characters that I had before and I feel like I lost the window into their world and I'm pressed against the wrong side of the glass, trying to peek through.

I'm doing this thing with my body right now where I feel like I don't know how to fit in it any more. I feel uncomfortable in whatever position I sit in and it's like I don't have any muscle memory for what my body "normally" likes to do, so I'm trying to fake it, but it's not working. It's really messing up my back and my neck and shoulders. And writing Appetite right now is a little like that. I'm HERE and I'm in the body, but I don't remember how it's supposed to move or sit or anything. There's no muscle memory.

...I suspect that made no sense to anyone but me. What can I say? I've had a rough week.

poisontaster @ 10:19 pm: This is the Sound of One Head, Desking
All my mini_nanowrimo peeps; please note that there's an important announcement on the comm. Anyone who has forgotten to post on a given day so far has a ONE TIME chance to recoup. If you would, spread the word.

Yesterday was a bad day and a bad day for writing. I made my word count, but I've been trying to do double or triple that every day and yesterday I wasn't even close.

On the other hand, the words I wrote were on Appetite, which pleases me. I don't want to let AKB stagnate all month (and there's no worry about that) but Appetite is really my focus. Or I would prefer it was my focus. I've been flitting between three different projects, really.

Started AKB 73 today. Writing for four year olds is HARD, yo.

I'm struggling with Appetite. I'm making new words, I don't hate the words I'm making (for the most part) but at the same time, I feel like I've lost some essential grasp of their characters that I had before and I feel like I lost the window into their world and I'm pressed against the wrong side of the glass, trying to peek through.

I'm doing this thing with my body right now where I feel like I don't know how to fit in it any more. I feel uncomfortable in whatever position I sit in and it's like I don't have any muscle memory for what my body "normally" likes to do, so I'm trying to fake it, but it's not working. It's really messing up my back and my neck and shoulders. And writing Appetite right now is a little like that. I'm HERE and I'm in the body, but I don't remember how it's supposed to move or sit or anything. There's no muscle memory.

...I suspect that made no sense to anyone but me. What can I say? I've had a rough week.

Tags: my muse's junkie girlfriend, nano, writing woes

raisedbymoogles @ 09:45 pm: Aaaagh. *headdesk*
I shorted out the stove today. Spilled a little instant-ramen broth on the controls, and zap! That was all she wrote. Lucky thing I figured out how to unplug the whole shebang, or we'd have a smoking crater for a house right now, and then who'd feed the fish? Still, we are left stove-less until Dad fixes things.

I think the next level of fail is to set something on fire. This is why I really should stay out of the kitchen. -_-

On the subject of Winterthing presents (NOOOOOOOOOOooooo....), I think I'll be giving out skibbles or something this year. I about killed myself crocheting something for everyone last year, and I'm pretty sure everyone's sick of yarnthings anyway. ;P I'd do baked goods, but, well, see above re: kitchen fail.

Tags: christmas, holidays, real life

volksjager, posting in scans_daily @ 09:29 pm: The Hanged man returns
"the sky gives NO second chances"



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Tags: char:enemy ace/hans von hammer, char:the hanged man, creator: joe kubert, publisher: dc comics, title: star spangled comics

babydraco @ 09:02 pm: What is it that makes Felicity collectors so fricking insane?

Who on earth pays $239 for a set of plastic food? Or even thinks anyone else would pay that?

I went up to Concord with my mother, to apply at a certain apartment complex. We also went to the Dept. of Education because she had to pick something up there. A lot of the state offices are housed in the old State Hospital grounds. A sprawling, redbrick and white gingerbread trim, notoriously haunted example of Victorian creepiness.

I'd like to go back some time and get lots of good pictures.

icon_uk, posting in scans_daily @ 01:30 am: Granny Goodness wants YOU - For the Female Fury Cadets....
The Karl and Barbara Kesel run on Hawk and Dove was one of my favourite titles back in the 1990's. They oversaw the introduction of Dawn Granger as the second Dove (Who was, to be honest, FAR more interesting than Don Hall had ever been) and created as good a superhero comic as one might hope to find as well.



The Kesels are amongst the few people who seems to "get" Jack Kirby characters and concept, Karl in particular used them a lot in things like this title (and Superboy), and in a way that was usually respectful, but expanded on them in ways that Kirby never did, usually because he was already moving on to his NEXT idea.

Take the Female Furies, Granny Goodness' elite warriors; Lashina, Stompa, Bernadeth and the marvellously named Mad Harriet. In some way these ladies are a lynchpin of the DCU, an equivalent perhaps to the MU's Wrecking Crew. They're powerful, versatile, each has an awesome visual design, and together form a team which is a good, but not unbeatable, challenge for a new hero team (or single hero if they're powerful enough) to test their mettle and resourcefulness. They also have the advantage of not needing much explanatory motivation "A mission from Darkseid/Granny Goodness" covers a multitude of plot points.

And at the same time, they had a static membership for a LOOOONG time. Prior to this story they had only ever added ONE member to the team when John Ostrander introduced the archer Artemiz and her cyber-pack (Technologically enhanced Apokaliptian wolves, NOT exactly cuddly puppies).

And then we had this story, from Hawk and Dove 21, with guest art from Steve Erwin, which presents us with a...



Tags: char: dove/dawn granger, char: hawk/monarch/extant/hank hall, creator: barbara kesel, creator: karl kesel, creator: steve erwin, group: female furies

dragovianknight @ 05:05 pm: Crying is not productive
Particularly when there is quite literally nothing to cry about.

jarodrussell, posting in scans_daily @ 07:03 pm: Birds of Prey #111
I wrote a script this evening that would let anyone, not just admins, backup Scans Daily.

After asking myself, "What would Oracle do?" I've decided not to share it with anyone. After all, I wouldn't want to share the ability to backup the SD community until everyone has the ability to back up the SD community.

Here's a scan to make this post legal.

( Babs has a boyfriend! )

Peace out, y'all!

Tags: char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon, char: huntress/helena bertinelli, char: misfit/charlotte gage-radcliffe, title: birds of prey

dr_hermes, posting in scans_daily @ 07:13 pm: Looks kinda like one of them Rube Goldberg contraptions
Rube Goldberg did not invent the corned beef and Swiss cheese sandwich. (Although many would praise him if he had.) Nope, he was a lifelong cartoonists who created a number of strips (he seems to have come with the "wiseguy answers to stupid questions" before WW I, long before Al Jaffee)and many political commentary panels. But he will be remembered for his infernal contraptions which perform a simple mundane task in a remarkably roundabout and inefficient way. You still see this done in movies, TV and cartoons (PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE had a number of these gags), but they owe their inspiration to Rube Goldberg.

Click for larger size.

alixtii @ 07:05 pm: 148 First Lines of Fic
Gakked from wisdomeagle, here ("I'm sure all of fandom has heard of this by now. Post the first lines from some of/20 of/50 of/all of your fic. Your flist writes drabbles for you.") and here ("So. Here they are. Sixty-odd first lines of fanfic. [. . .] Do as you like with these: put them in drabbles, put them in ficlets, put them in novels. Change the names, leave the names, edit them, what have you. Post the drabbles here, there, everywhere. Guess where they came from. Marvel at their inanity. Ignore them. Up to you.").

So under the cut we have almost 150 first lines, in alphabetical order.

( 148 first lines )

This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/310355.html. There are currently comments there. You can comment there, using Open ID (prefered), or here.

Tags: meme, on writing

dizmo, posting in scans_daily @ 03:46 pm: A smorgasbord of Superdictionary silliness.
Yeah, have a handful of Superdictionary entries! Always appreciated, I know. I went back through the IJcomm, and I'm pretty sure none of these have been seen on it up to this point, so yes.

( Under the cut are fourteen entries. That is as many as one ten plus four. )

Tags: char: atom/ray palmer, char: batman/bruce wayne, char: catwoman/selina kyle, char: flash/barry allen, char: green arrow/oliver queen, char: hawkgirl/shayera hol, char: joker, char: krypto the superdog, char: lex luthor, char: lois lane, char: martha kent, char: penguin/oswald cobblepot, char: supergirl/linda danvers, char: superman/clark kent, in-joke: bees. my god., title: superdictionary

xdoop, posting in scans_daily @ 06:46 pm: Strange Tales #3




Tags: char: ben parker, char: dr. doom/victor von doom, char: may parker, char: mr. fantastic/reed richards, char: spider-man/peter parker, char: sub-mariner/namor mckenzie, creator: becky cloonan, creator: max cannon, publisher: marvel comics, title: strange tales