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Thanksgiving today was a laid-back affair – just myself and the BFF. All in all, we had a lot to be thankful for this year – Chris got a promotion at work and I’m still following my love of writing. We have homes, food, family and friends. What else do we need?

Considering there was just the two of us, we had enough food for six people. The leftovers themselves will keep me from going to HEB for at least that long, I’m sure. By the end of the day, we were stretching, farting and contentedly whining, “I’m so fat!” The feast consisted of:

Moet and Chandon champagne;
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When Joan Osbourne asked “What If God Were One of Us?” (sorry to be a grammar Nazi, but the subjunctive is a beautiful thing) she had no idea that He might actually dive headlong into our Culture of Exhibitionism and get a Facebook page chronicling his best LULz ever: the Creation of the World.

by Andrew B.

Not being a big fan of the Big Guy’s Biggest Fans (you know who you are), I often hope funny things like this raise their blood pressure up just that much more.

Comics Should be Good! has a month of LGBTQ comics that are “must read”. Check them out here! Megan Rose Gedris, who is a talented and sweet young woman-who-loves-women, made the list and I’m thrilled for her. She makes good comics. Congratulations, Megan!

From my brother:

Bro:

Dominic drew this and wanted you to have it.

Also, Dominic says, “Can you make a comic book again, please? SpiderMan. I want it to be Dr. Octopus and I want it to tangle Spiderman up and then I want the Green Goblin to punch him and I want you to write POOM! ‘cuz the building I want thme in is very old and part of it blowed up and I want it to be Venom in it putting his web in SpiderMan’s face and then SandMan going around SpiderMan to make him so dizzy.”

Well, there it is. I have a feeling now that the drawing was just to butter you up. The kid does, indeed, know some angles in life. Good luck.

(I told him that you’re in school and might not be able to get to this right away.)

Scott

I won’t be able to get to it for another week or so, but I will do it for him. The kid really does know how to get what he wants.

This is pretty cool. A site called Typealyzer will give the personality type of any given blog. Orthocomics is an ISFP:

The gentle and compassionate type. They are especially attuned their inner values and what other people need. They are not friends of many words and tend to take the worries of the world on their shoulders. They tend to follow the path of least resistance and have to look out not to be taken advantage of.

They often prefer working quietly, behind the scene as a part of a team. They tend to value their friends and family above what they do for a living.

I, however, am an INTJ. Apparently, I need to get myself and my blog a little more aligned.

At least GenderAnalyzer gets my gender right. Sort of. They “guess http://www.orthocomics.com is written by a man (55%), however it’s quite gender neutral.” This probably explains why I’m versatile.

This, however, really hurts. According to The Blog Readability Test, Orthocomics is

Movie Reviews

The shame! The SHAME!!!

Finally, Orthocomics itself is worth nothing, according to Business Opportunities Weblog, which doesn’t bother me much since it really ranks values based on ad content. Of which Orthocomics has none.

My blog is worth $0.00.
How much is your blog worth?

Thanks to JoeMyGod and Comics N Things!

From my brother:

So Dominic and I are playing today.

D: Let’s do that scene in Spider-Man.

Me: Which one?

D: The one with the Green Goblin on the balcony.

Me: There aren’t that many lines there. Its just him fighting Spider-Man most of the time.

D: No, the scene with MJ.

Me: When MJ is going to fall off the balcony?

D: No. She’s on the edge of the balcony.

Me: Right, where the Green Goblin kills those guys with that bomb?

D: No, the Green Goblin has MJ here (puts arm out) and those people here (puts other arm out).

Me: Oh! That’s not a balcony, little man; that’s a bridge.

D: Oh.

Me: Yeah, he had MJ and those kids on the bridge, right? At the end?

D: Right.

Me: Where he gave Spider-Man a Sadistic Choice. Can you say “Sadistic Choice”?

D: “Sadistic Choice.”

Me: Good.

D: OK. Let’s do that scene.

Me: I don’t know the lines from that scene.

D: (no pause) Me neither.

I really wonder who this kid is going to turn out to be one day.

Rights Aren’t Just For The Righteous!


I (along with an estimated 3,000 others) attended the Austin area’s Join the Impact rally and instead of writing something clever here, I’m going to ask you to look at the pictures (click to see them engorge), and listen to the speakers talk from the heart about how much it means for them to get married, not only as citizens of the United States, but as tax-paying citizens of the United States. One this I will say is that they were classier than I would have been. They asked that certain groups not be demonized nor targeted for their beliefs, whereas I would have laid blame where blame belongs. Nevertheless, “classy”. Two regrets: my camera ran out of juice before I could get a picture of 10-year old Mason becoming Austin’s new Marriage Equality spokesperson and my not making a sign that would have read Atheist 4 the REAL Jesus. [audio:http://www.orthocomics.com/files/National%20Day%20of%20Protest%20(Austin).mp3]









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Law of Unintended Consequences

Via my brother

So Dominic and I are playing “Castle” today. This is a game we play with his castle and teams of knights set up. One player picks a knight to attack another on the opposing player’s team and then rolls a die. If a 1, 2 or 3 is rolled, the attacking knight misses. A 4, 5, or 6 yields a hit and the attacked knight dies and is taken out of the game.

The last time we played, Dominic secured a siege ladder to the castle walls using a rubber band. One of the guys got tangled up in it and hung from the walls. He thought that was cool, so now whenever one of my guys bites it, he gets hung from the castle walls.

So today:

D: I’m going to put this up here and any of your dead guys get hung here.

Me: OK. You know, real kings back in the day would do the same thing to their enemies. To teach them a lesson.

D: What lesson?

Me: Don’t fight the king.

D: (confirming tone) Or he’ll destroy you.

Flawless.

Rodinina vs. Pangaea

Superman #681: Part two of “New Krypton” sees Lex Luthor’s worst nightmare come true – Earth inhabited by out-of-control aliens. Not that the Kryptonians are wreaking havok everywhere they go (the dead blue whale aside), but with an overly defensive and smarmy-looking Thara Ak-Var and an alien-killing super-being thrown into the mix, it’s only a matter of time before cities start to fall. I hope. Obviously, the 100,000 Kryptonians are going to stay around Earth because they would nullify the need for any other superhero title again ever. However, the method and motive of their departure are still to be told. The best scene of the entire issue is between Martha Kent and the one member of the Superman Family who knows where he’s needed the most. Good boy! A

Madame Xanadu #5: If I had one criticism of this book, it would be that the centuries are slipping by way too fast. Matt Wagner doesn’t have to hit all the major events from 1000 A.D. to the present, but maybe a brief layover in the Renaissance would have been nice. A visit with Nostradamus perhaps. The “discovery” of America and subsequent slaughter of the American Indians would have topped my list of events for Miss X to run to. This is not to say that the French Revolution isn’t high on drama and intrigue; it is. I’m just saying there could have been a few more stops between there and here. B

1985 #6: I read this in the store because I had to see how it ended, and… really? “Everybody go home!”? That was the only logical conclusion to this story Mark Millar could come up with? It was so sad I wanted to pat it on the head and help it find it’s mommy because it was obviously lost. Alas, poor highly-anticipated mini-series, we hardly knew ye. F

Thor #11: When Captain America died last year, I found myself not caring too much. Not because I didn’t like Cap, but because his death was the latest in a series of ploys to shock and awe Marvel readers. And in the final analysis, it didn’t seem that anyone in the Marvel U cared. At all. Until this month. Don and Thor’s goodbyes to Captain America seem to be JMS’s none-to-veiled commentary on the state of American politics – where the speculation of what a hero would do overshadows the good s/he accomplished. When “who would Captain America vote for?” (terribly paralleling the “Jesus wants you to vote for McCain” screeds of late) is the best memorial people can create, it’s heartening to see that at least Thor remembers how to honor a friend and hero. A+