The perfect face

I absolutely adored the look on Gil's face in Wednesday's Girl Genius. So...here it is! With a small addition from me.

Not a good sign

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Sweet rig

Today's Penny Arcade is absolutely hilarious, and so is Tycho's rant:

It's a little inside baseball I guess, but at the same time the story was so delicious that we couldn't leave it be: a District Attorney in Texas is on trial for building himself a sweet rig on the county dime. The machine in question sports "two hard drives, seven fans, high-end video and audio cards, a wireless Internet connection and cables that glow under ultraviolet light." It's a crime, yeah, but it's an awesome crime. I make an exception for awesome crimes.

"I would not configure a backup computer in that way," says Mr. Gregg, FBI senior forensic examiner and reigning Understatement King.

Webcomics 1/2

Me (12:53:55 PM): okay, here's a question
Me (12:54:01 PM): why are there so many webcomics where men turn into women?
Jered (12:54:08 PM): are there?
Me (12:54:20 PM): why do guys want to be girls? do they think it's awesome to be marginalized?
Me (12:54:23 PM): they're all white guys, too
Jered (12:54:28 PM): must be because every web comic artist, or at least those responsible, are turned on by Ranma 1/2
Me (12:54:32 PM): maybe they just want to know what it's like to be a minority
Me (12:54:39 PM): hahaha
Me (12:54:48 PM): actually I'm sure the minority part doesn't even occur to them
Me (12:55:07 PM): when you're default, you think you can be anything, and the possible problems don't occur to you
Me (12:55:18 PM): the only problems these guys have with being girls is that they are no longer "manly"
Me (12:55:24 PM): and they get hit on, which is comic relief
Jered (12:55:30 PM): I always thought Ranma 1/2 was kinda sexy in some of the most absurd and disturbing ways possible.
Me (12:55:46 PM): there is one comic, Exiern, where they deal a little with prejudice and whatnot
Me (12:56:00 PM): but for the most part it's "hahaha that guy turned into a hot girl"
Me (12:56:07 PM): and they ALWAYS turn into hot girls, it's not just a girl
Jered (12:56:10 PM): lol
Me (12:56:34 PM): I want to see a webcomic where a guy turns into Daria
Jered (12:56:47 PM): I dunno if I can summon up the maturity level appropriate for this conversation
Me (12:57:06 PM): lol

Girl Genius yay!

When Studio Foglio put their comic Girl Genius online, there was already quite a backlog from the print version. So they released the new and old concurrently; those like me who hadn't read the comics could follow the originals day by day from the very beginning.

Though I knew about the comic for some time, it was awhile before I actually got into reading it. I think I had to wait until there was a decent archive before I could really get a feel for what it was about.

Now, of course, I'm completely hooked. It's one of my favorite webcomics. It's grandstanding yet epic, overblown but real. The characters are varied and rich in depth. And the main character learns to use powers she doesn't know she has, which I think is my favorite plotline.

Today, the originals have at last caught up with the new, online-only stuff. Which means I have a lot more reading than Harry Potter this weekend :D

I've already dug in, and I'm really enjoying being able to read the story so quickly, rather than having to wait for each new page. It's going to be tough when I'm through the archives...but I'll survive ;>

In the meantime, I'm really enjoying myself. This one made me laugh out loud.

If you haven't read Girl Genius yet, click here to start from the beginning!

Edit: This gem from the archives has always delighted me.

Edit: Fixed those links, since they changed their archiving system. Also, the "laugh out loud" link was wrong.

Great minds?

So I watched Return of the Jedi the other day.

And apparently so did everyone else! To wit: today's Diesel Sweeties, today's Shortpacked!

:>

(Those comics probably aren't Mom-friendly.)

Stupidity

No. Surely Pete isn't that evil.

...okay, so maybe he is.

But please, let it not be what I think this time.

Very raunchy, very hilarious

You have to see today's Sinfest.

Unless you're Mom.

Don't read that, Mom.