At the behest of one Scott Kurtz we have created this week’s comic, yes that’s right I say we because Dave had as much a helping hand in this one as I did. Hazzah collaboration! We have taken a slight alteration to it, of course, and featured my beautiful new kitteh as well. The praying cat […]
Win, Lose, or Drawn & Quartered
You’d think after attending a 10 day long convention about boardgaming I’d have lots to talk about, wouldn’t you? Well, the truth is, I spent a lot of time talking about game design, and terminology, and related issues while there quite a lot. While I have yet to become sick of talking about games and […]
For the Intellectual Who Loves Comics!
On rare occasions, work that I complete in classroom studies becomes worth recommending to others. This is one such occasion. Scott McCloud, a writer and scholar of comics, released a black and white graphic novel entitled Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art in 1993. Within the pages, McCloud guides the reader through a thorough understanding of […]
They Call Me Monsieur Blob
While making fun of Dave has become status quo for me, laying on thick while he’s out of town is not exactly beneath me. The original plan was to have a whole new banner at the top of the page for the whole week, but he has complete control of that. Since I’m not the […]
A Game of Pure Skill
I was at a party this past weekend that could at times have been described as “raucous.” Of course, I don’t go for this whole “unstructured social interaction” thing, so I was jonesing for gaming, coming off from a back to back win in drinking team foosball. Fortunately, I carry a game around with me […]
Review: Tricked
Title: Tricked Author: Alex Robinson Year of Publication: 2005 Genre: Drama (graphic novel) Length: 349 pages, large book. It’s a fairly text-heavy graphic novel. Rating: 3/5 buy second-hand It sounds like a commercial for the latest Thursday night drama on Global; six adults, three men and three women, pushed together into an absurd and dangerous […]
PowSpiel of Friends West
Last week, in my attempt to explain why games were art, I had to come up with a definition that I liked for art. Apparently nobody else liked it. However, I stick by it, but your mileage may vary. The only common ground josh0rfz and I could find about our definition of art involved guide’s […]
Nostradamus Called It
A quickie for this week, which disheartens me because of the last two weeks missed, bringing my tally for the year to -3 comics from the goal. I keep not illusions of necessarily ending the year in the positive, simply an improvement over last year will suit me well enough, but I wouldn’t have set […]
Games as Art: Yes, Yes, They Are
Over at Amber’s blog, she references a speech made at the GDC wherein the speaker called the Wii “a piece of shit” and also stated that Nintendo doesn’t care about games as art, because if you search their site for that phrase it doesn’t appear. Well, that’s hardly a scientific analysis. As someone who has […]
Review: The Mists of Avalon
Title: The Mists of Avalon Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley Year of Publication: 1982 Genre: Fantasy Length: 912 pages in the soft-cover edition Rating: 4.5/5 – Worth paying full price Review: There are few classic tales that can be told over and over again without boring the reader. One trick that many authors use – and […]
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