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Happy Christmas from Continuity Error!

Murry Christmas from Continuity Error!

Luthor must have a REALLY bad research team...

...either that, or 52 has some rather lazy writers.

Now, this may not be as lazy as Scott McDaniel's refusal to draw the lines of Green Arrow's bowstring, but it is real fucking obnoxious. When I saw this panel I immediately thought that Luthor's comment was about the fact that his researchers have filled their report with sa;olkda;lskdl;sakd;la keyboard doodling. It's not even random doodling, it's the same eight or so keys!

For a book that has four perfectly capable writers (one of which being a genius) it is pretty unacceptable for this laziness and scene killing crap to make an appearance. And this is not the first time, too! Nearly all background text is nothing but random letters.

This has to stop!

Green Arrow is dead meat

I predict that Oliver Queen will die in the next year to be replaced by Roy Harper as the key archer in the DC Universe.

Because Ollie is a retard.

The proof:
His bow has no bowstring! How stupid can he be to go into battle without a damn bowstring? He must be becoming senile in his old age.

Or it could be that Scott McDaniel's art has become progressively more sloppy and lazy.

Or maybe Roy just stole all of Ollie's bowstrings. He has one on the cover of JL0fA #4 after all.

Fangirls! Who is the comic book man candy?

Today I was surfing Comicvine, the new superhero wiki/internet crack, when I noticed that X-23 had been attributed with the "power" of Attractive Female. My initial response was offense, but that quickly changed to pity. You see, Comicvine has a cool ranking system for all of the powers given to characters. This is a ton of fun when you're voting on which characters could win in a fight but when it comes to ranking the Attractive Female "power", it would be nothing more than voting on which fictional character is the hottest. That's just fucking sad.

I made a bit of a stink on the forums about it, calling it ridiculous and asking why there wasn't a "Man Candy" power. Well, turns out there is! The only problem is that not too many people seem to be making much use of it. I wonder why.

So fangirls, I implore you to go to Comicvine, sign up, and let the world know who the hunks of comics are. I marked Batman and Nightwing as "Attractive Males" since I know both get more ladies than they can handle. But other than that, I have no clue who the fangirls (and plenty of the fanboys) out there are fawning over. So go set the record straight!

Correction: You don't even need to sign up to vote in the superhero beauty pageant.

More Christmastime joy with Batman

Batman questions Santa's superhero credentials.

Okay, so Nostalgia Week is over

I was going to make a post about Batman #410, an all-time favorite issue of mine, for my Nostalgia Week, but I've decided not to on the grounds that I plan reading all the Jason Todd era comics sometime soon. I also plan on blogging about those old stories, so in hopes of reducing redundancy I am canceling the final nostalgic post. Well, postponing it, really.

But before I get into reading old-school Batman, I'm going to be reading through my stacks of What If...? issues. Be ready for fist fulls of hypothetical situations and high body counts, because What If..? However Long I Take Getting Through Them is about to start!

Well, this is depressing...

I thought I was brilliant to use a digg-like content management system to create a user-run comic book news site. I called it Pull List and it was going to be teh next big thing. It didn't matter that no one, including myself, used it.

But now I see that someone has gone and done it better. ComicNe.ws is the very same concept but looks much better. And it has a bunch of passionate users and relevant news.

God, I'm depressed.

Tim didn't wear hot pants!

It's a good thing I've been taking my time picking up my comics or else I would have screeched out loud in the middle of the comic shop. Have the editors of DC lost their minds? Behold this great offense that is in 52 #31!

Tim did not wear the green hotpants! I mean, he did once when he first showed up to save Batman from Two-Face, but he wasn't officially Robin then. When he took down the Scarecrow he was wearing a ski mask! He didn't put the costume on again until Alfred put pants on it! For shame, DC editors, to forget a vital element of Tim's origin! In a retelling of his origin at that!

Oh, my God! What if this is one of those retarded changes for the Post-Crisis Post-Infinite Crisis New Earth? I let the Joe Chill thing slide, but this is intolerable!

On Spider-Man's penis

I wish to go on record that I don't give a shit about the silhouette of a penis that appears in Spider-Man: Reign #1. Seeing a penis does not scandalize me. I have one of my own.

Now, I would love to see this same kind of outcry* for every time the outline of nipples or labia graces the pages of a superhero comic. Of course if that happened, comic book shops would be burning across the nation.

I also want to go on record as saying I don't care if the story is just like The Dark Knight Returns. So is almost every other Batman story since 1986. Shit, every plot in a comic released this week is bound to have similarities to a dozen other comics released in the last seventy years. Fanboys, and I use this term in the most derogatory way possible, have a very skewed idea of what constitutes as originality. The differences between Spider-Man and Batman are enough to make Reign interesting in its own right.

And I like the artwork, too.

*Well, it couldn't exactly be the same kind of outcry since most of the objecting voices come from homophobic fanboys who feel violated at the site of a penis other than their own.

More holiday cheer with Batman

Batman will hunt Santa down like a dog.

Nostalgia Week: Betsy Braddock's Butt

This is not so much of a review as it is a look back at my introduction to the hyper-sexualization of women in comics. If talking about things such as gender politics, body image and exposure of sexualized content to children bores you, feel free to just look at the pictures of Psylocke's butt.

Before we get to looking at X-Men #31, I'd like to share one of my most vivid comic book memories.

Once, when I was ten years old, I was out with my mother and some other people. We stopped by a drug store and I requested that my mother buy me a comic book. I picked out a copy of Ultraverse Origins #1, which looked cool because the cover was packed with characters. And since it was only $0.99, my mother agreed.

Later, as my mother was busy running some other errand, I was sitting in the car reading the comic. I cannot remember much about it but one thing really stuck out and grabbed my attention. It was a panel of the character Mantra, nude in a mirror.

I was shocked and confused. I felt as if I had accidentally opened up pornography. In fact, I think I even called it that at the time. Looking back I realize that I was probably more afraid of the attraction I had to the image than the shame of having seen it. In any case, I wanted nothing to do with it.

I showed the panel to my mother and asked her to take me back to the drug store so that I could get her money back. I tried to explain to the people at the store that I was offended by the content but they would not give me a refund. It was against their policy to accept magazine returns. I can't imagine what they thought of this ten year old little boy showing them a drawing of a nude woman and demanding his $0.99 back. I remember being very firm with them too. I ended up tossing the comic into the trash on my way out of the store, making a big show of it. My mommy was very proud of me.

In the same year that I was scandalized by Mantra's boobs, X-Men #31 was published. I'm not sure which came first, but I probably was never as scandalized by the X-Men comic because the women in it are never technically nude (even though a change in coloring is all it would take). The story, written by the oft verbose Chris Claremont, involves Psylocke and her mind swap with Revanche. Needless to say I didn't understand a damn thing back then. In fact, I didn't remember anything about the plot as I sat down to re-read this issue. And having read it I still am not quite sure what was going on. Thank God for Wikipedia.

I've decided not to bother with rehashing all of the extremely convoluted plot of this issue. I didn't understand it when I was ten and I barely get it when I'm twenty-three. I'll just set up the context for one of the more memorable panels in the issue. The story begins with Ravanche standing over a sleeping Professor X, about to cut his head off. It seems that she is under the influence of Spiral, who is watching the whole scene through transmitters in Ravanche's eyes. Spiral loses the feed as Ravanche tears out her own eyes. Later, Professor X has woken up and has taken the sword and note that Ravanche left next to his bed to Psylocke to consult with her. It's a basic 'Thank you for being nice to me but I'm out of here" note, but since Claremont wrote it it is considerably longer. But did I understand all this when I was ten? Hell, no! I was too mesmerized by Psylocke's butt.

During the 1990's Psylocke was perhaps the most sexualized character in the X-Men comics. That is until Emma Frost joined and Psylocke found some pants. Psylocke's costume was basically nothing but a purple bathing suit and her back was constantly arched and her breasts constantly thrust forward. It just doesn't make sense for a ninja or any warrior for that matter. And look at what she is wearing during her late night meeting with Professor X. Back then it was very enticing, but now I'm just confused by it. Assuming she just woke up, how does she sleep with that atomic wedgie? Isn't it a little unprofessional/inappropriate for her to let Professor X, who is basically her boss, see her like that? Does she not even own a robe? Seriously, this woman is sexualized to the point of absurdity, especially at the hands of Andy Kubert.

Later on in the story we find Psylocke in the Danger Room, in the middle of a training exercise.

Considering the lethal setting of the Danger Room and Psylocke's attire, I have come to the conclusion that Betsy must be suicidal. That is the only reason why I could see someone who knows the first thing about combat would willingly subject themselves to lethal force while wearing nothing but a swimsuit and random, useless straps of cloth.

Or, which may make more sense, it is that comic book readers are trained to ignore the impracticality of female characters' costumes. Instead we are told to focus simply on the "hotness" of the characters, never once questioning the absurdity of it all. This begins at a very young age, especially for male readers, and I find my rejection of Mantra and acceptance of Psylocke to be perfect illustrations of this. In the same year I was shocked by the sight of a clearly nude character, but a character who is just as sexualized, if not more so, is acceptable as long as she has some manner of clothing, regardless of how impractical it is. This is how readers can easily ignore the absurdity of costumes worn by Supergirl, She-Hulk and Psylocke.

This is no novel insight on my part, but at least I'm able to trace back the roots of this problem. I may be more conscientious of the sexism in comics now thanks to an education in feminist theory, but I still find myself ignoring arched backs, clenched butts and boob windows as things that are "just there." And this is a problem, not so much because boys like me come to expect women to live up to these ideals (we really don't) but that our eyes are trained to be blind to overt sexism.

While I know that I turned out all right, I find myself concerned about other ten year olds being exposed to the same hyper-sexualization of women. I have no problem with comic books being populated with attractive women, after all, no artist is going to want to draw page after page of ugly people, but there needs to be a change in what is considered sexy and desirable in comics. Katchoo and Francine from Strangers in Paradise both have realistic body types and wear realistic clothing, yet both are portrayed as being very sexy in their own right. Oracle doesn't need to be twisting around in her wheelchair in tight leather pants to be hot. She's a hundred times hotter when she's fucking up some villain's plans with her wit and intelligence. We don't need to ban sexy from comics, just make it less damaging.

Up next on Nostalgia Week: The comic I chopped wood for.

Jumping on the ComicSpace bandwagon

It looks like comic geeks now have their own answer to MySpace in ComicSpace. It's just opened and it pretty bare bones, but it might get cool in time.

I'm right here.

Nightwing is a dirty slut

Am I the only one that was really creeped out by Dick's come on to Ryan in Nightwing #127?

She's giving him a massage, which happens to be her job, and when she tell him she's done and to go get dressed, he asks why. Literary. He looks at her and says "Why?" I cannot help but read it like some sleazy frat boy counting down to a date rape. I'm surprised I didn't see a six-pack of Bacardi Raz in the corner.

I know Dick is supposed to be a stud and all, but this just comes off as slutty. He's only been flirting with this girl at best and suddenly he's ready to have sex with her at her job? He even spends some time thinking about all the other women he's bedded down in the past elsewhere in the issue. I suspected it when his first One Year Later appearance was in some strange woman's bed but this just confirms it.

Dick Grayson is a ho-bag.

Nostalgia Week: Superman, Man of Steel #37

I was 10 years old when the Zero Hour miniseries and its bajillion tie-ins were published in 1994, and come to think of it I don't even remember knowing what Zero Hour was when I picked up Superman, Man of Steel #37. I think it should be pretty obvious why I thought this issue would rock: Batman(s)!

Really, it was probably the inclusion of the Animated Series version of Batman on the cover that made this comic so desirable to me. Sadly, TAS-Bats does not actually appear inside. That was my first encounter with a deceptive comic book cover.

The story, which I remember being frustratingly inaccessible and confusing to by young mind, takes place after something has reduced much of Metropolis to ruins. Since I hardly ever read Superman, I have no idea what this could have been. We'll assume it was a giant robo-gorilla. Anyway, some guy with a pony tail is putting on a benefit concert. He talks to Lois and Clark about it, all while being a total dick to Clark, who also has a pony tail. Clark is about to beat the guy up before Lois defuses the situation. Disappointing really, since I would love to see Superman engage in a pony tail pulling match. As they are walking away, Clark gets all emo about not being able to save Metropolis from destruction (although the entire city has probably been destroyed and rebuilt a dozen times since Superman showed up) when he sees some flashes of light that are in Morse code. Clark changes to Superman and flies up to meet Batman on a roof.

What Superman doesn't know is that this is not the normal post-Crisis Batman. It is in fact the Batman of the late-60's and early 70's, a.k.a "Neil Adams Batman." It's hard to tell right away since Adams was the shit and was years ahead of his time, so it very well could be plain ol' Batman. Of course, the reader can tell something is up once Batman gets to talking about how there is a "time anomaly" in Gotham with people from other time periods popping up. Louise Simonson does a great job imitating the dialogue of various writers, just as artist Jon Bogdanove succeeds in accurately replicating the style of other artists. Superman, on the other hand, doesn't catch on until Batman asks him what happened to his hair and if he was "going hippie." Superman replies, "WTF! Didn't you like break your back?" Adams-Bat tells Superman he has clearly been smoking pot.*

And I wish this issue was titled "Crisis on Infinite Batmans!"

Across town, the pony-tailed douchebag concert promoter is attacked by a huge group of visored thugs who look vaguely familiar. Who comes to his rescue but Batman! Make that The Goddamn Batman!


Now, as a twenty-three year old geek who has had the time to read many of the classic Batman stories, it was cool to see Frank Miller's Batman jump into action and beat on some Mutants. But when I was ten I had no clue who Frank Miller was, let alone have had the chance to read The Dark Knight Returns. So, instead of "Oh cool," I'm sure my reaction at the time was "Why is Batman fat?"

What follows is a cool page that looks just like it was ripped from Dark Knight Returns.

Once all that awesomeness is out of the way, the Batmen meet each other and complete each other's sentences. Adams-Bat is a nerd and The Goddamn Batman acts like a dick. They are totally in character.

It seems that the Mutants are really digging the destroyed Metropolis and aren't too keen on the concert raising money to rebuild the city. Because of this, Superman and the Batmen decide to hang out at the concert to protect the innocent people there, which happens to be half of Metropolis. They seem oddly nonchalant about the fact that there are two of the same person standing around, but I guess they've seen enough crazy shit in their lives that it's hard to get worked up over something like a time anomaly. As they are standing around they get a visit from yet another Batman, who we will call The Bat-Man.

The Bat-Man begins to give his obligatory lines on what is going on in Gotham, but instead of saying "time anomaly" he says "time mistake," which made me laugh for all its 1930's pulp diction. Adams-Bat tells The Bat-Man that he's an idiot and that we're using the term "time anomaly" during this adventure. Adams-Bat morphs into Kelly Jones' Batman mid-sentence.


Now that we have three Batmen together, it's time for the obligatory group-perch shot.


I love how The Batman looks like he is about to make a sweet spot on the carpet, just like he did in Detective Comics #27. And The Goddamn Batman and Comically Long Cape Batman are perfect representations of their original forms.

Okay, so the Mutants attack the concert and shoot the singer on stage through the throat. But it's all right because she's some kind of vampire. Superman and the Batmen beat up the Mutants, including their massive tank. In the end very few people in the crowd even knew they were under attack. Now that is what I call heavy metal! It was so loud that the people didn't even notice the tank exploding behind them. After the concert Superman takes the Batmen to some professor's laboratory where they deduct that they are from alternate timelines, not universe. I'm not sure how it is that the Bat-Man and the Goddamn Batman can be from the same world but different timelines when they look completely different. It's like that episode of the Simpsons when Homer came to the real world and was a 3D model of himself. Clearly he's from a different universe and not a world where people evolved to look like cartoons. But whatever, this is hypertime so it doesn't have to make sense.

The Batmen switch into other versions a few times before finally fading away. It's kind of funny when the Goddamn Batman morphs into the cartoony Gay But As In Happy Batman of the 1960s. After they are all gone Superman gets a signal and flies off to meet real Batman. Or specifically the "New Look" Means No Blue Panties Batman.

And why bother asking "What's up," Superman? Clearly he's here because there is a fucking time anomaly!

Now that I have some understanding of Zero Hour, it was fun to re-read this issue, especially since I get all the other references to DC history. I like comics like this, which are more about the DC's real world legacy than the in-comic continuity. The other Zero Hour tie-ins were cool too. We'll have to talk about those some other time.

Up next on Nostalgia Week: "Psylocke makes me feel funny. Down there."

*Okay, not really, but it would be much cooled than the actual dialogue.

Civil War is over, if you dream it.

We interrupt Nostalgia Week for this entry from Rob's dream diary.

Last night I had a dream about how Civil War (that would be the Marvel Comics event in seven parts) could potentially end.

In my dream all of the uncaptured heroes of the Marvel Universe gather together. This includes Iron Man and all the other pro-registration heroes. It seems that Spider-Man's deflecting to the rebel team got everyone thinking and they decided to sit down and actually talk things out. They must have had some sort of debate but I don't remember any. It was all very civil and no one punched anyone else through a wall. It was very out-of-character for every superhero ever.

So a consensus was reached and a plan was hatched but I did not know what it was at that point. What I did know is that everyone was friends again and Captain America needed me, my wife and her family to build all the superteams new headquarters. This massive construction project consisted of us sticking bushes into a sandy field and propping the bushes up with small wooden boards. I think I made a puddle next to mine with a garden hose. One of the Young Avengers (probably Hawkeye) complained about the new "headquarters" but Captain America just told her to, "Shut the fuck up and learn the Goddamn meaning of respect." Captain America was a grumpy grandfather in this dream.

After the new bush bases were constructed, everyone boarded a huge robot that looked like Iron Man. It was using this robot that they would launch the attack on the real enemy: the offices of Marvel Comics. Apparently the roof of Marvel Comics' building had been transformed into a concentration camp for superheroes and the company itself was responsible for all th troubles. Among the prisoners on the roof were miscellaneous X-Men (but specifically Gambit among them) and the kids from Gen 13. The dream ended with Captain America telling Marvel Comics over a loud speaker that he was going to "fuck them up."

What could it all mean?

Nostalgia Week: Batman #446

We are kicking off Nostalgia Week with the comic book which may be at the very root of my current level of geekdom. Batman #446 was published in April of 1990 and it was my very first Batman comic. Assuming that I came into possession of this comic the month it was printed, I would have been six years old when I first read this issue. And that would explain why I didn't understand a God damn thing that happens in it. Lenin is on the cover for Christ's sake! All I knew was that Batman was awesome, he gets beat up a lot in this issue and that made me sad.

So the story, which I definitely had zero grasp of back then, revolves around the NKVDemon wanting to kill off ten Russian officials he blames for the failure of the Soviet Union. When this issue opens, Batman is on the look out for the Demon at a Russian and American hockey game. Although the script seems to think that it is a soccer game for some reason. Anyway, the Demon wants to kill some guy in the audience but Batman can't figure where the attack will come from since the Demon is a master of disguise. Batman decides to check out the locker room to see if anything is amiss there. He finds nothing. Nothing that is, except a corpse stuffed into the shower drain!

That is fucking gruesome. And it is only the first of several images from this issue that have been burned into my head since I was kid. I probably have not read this issue for at least ten years and upon reading it tonight I found the images in my head to be exactly what was printed on the page. Talk about making an impression.

Back to the story. Turns out the Demon is on the ice in the goalie's uniform. When Batman finally gets out of the locker room, the Demon is already sending exploding hockey pucks into the stands. Batman prevents the Demon from assassinating his target but as the killer makes a break for it, the Demon goes totally batshit and starts shooting random people. While wearing a hockey uniform.

I don't think I would have seen any Friday the 13th movies at the point in time, but I probably knew who Jason was and that he had the habit of killing people. This is probably why I always remembered the hockey player in this comic to be so damn scary. I didn't remember what he was doing, killing innocent people in the street, but I knew he was downright evil.

Batman chases after the Demon, finally cornering him on a train. The Demon decides to stop being the creepy hockey player killing people in the streets to instead be the creepy hockey player who holds a knife to a poor old woman's throat.
Instead of risking the woman's life, Batman agrees to let the Demon go, but instead of leaping from the train in some awesome but safe way, Batman instead just jumps out. The results must have made little Rob want to cry.

But don't worry, Batman is rescued by Russian cops and taken to a hospital. Of course they keep his mask on in respect of his privacy. Totally makes sense to me. Batman is shown recovering in the hospital for about a page before he is back in action. This is one of the few elements that clearly was warped in my memory because I'd always remembered Batman being in the hospital for a long time and that his life was in serious danger. Turns out that he only had some scratches and after chilling out for a while was ready for action.

Which brings us to another part of the story that I grossly misinterpreted as a child. On the next page we find Bruce Wayne talking to the obligatory Russian guide/love interest. He comes up with some bullshit about Batman landing on him while he was waiting for a train. The whole while Bruce is covering his chest with bandages (which actually looks like only masking tape). His friend helps him put on his shirt and he grimaces in pain. At least now know it is pain. Before I was under the impression that Bruce was angry and was about to smack a bitch.

Now that I think of it, I'm sticking to my initial reading of this panel. Bruce is fucking pissed.

Batman and his Russian cop buddy are able to deduct where and when the Demon will attack next and set up an elaborate sting operation. It's a little too involved to explain in this review, but let's just say it involves Batman dressing up like a former Soviet official and then ripping off the disguise once the Demon makes his move. I'm not sure how Batman is able to hide his cowl underneath his old dude make-up (or hide the four inch points sticking out the top of his head) and I'm sure that I was even more confused when I was six years old.

Batman chases after the Demon, who gets an opportunity to change into his standard supervillain outfit, which is pretty cool. Batman chases the the Demon unto the scaffolding about the huge political function where the assassination was to take place. Batman and the Demon go at it, bound together by one of Batman's ropes. The Demon is able to get in some good blows, opening up Batman's wounds and successuly shocking baby Rob.

As if that was not enough, the Demon is able to get a hold of what appears to be a paint scrapping tool and thus faciliate an image that will be forever burned into my memory.

That is fucking brutal.

The issue ends with the Demon kicking Batman off the scaffolding and then cutting the line that Batman was hanging from. The final panel shows Batman's beaten body falling to the ground, a typical cliffhanger. Only, for six-year-old me, there was a very serious threat. I was really, honestly scared that Batman would die as I saw no possible way for him to escape death. I never was able to read the issue that follows and it haunted me for years without resolution. I still haven't read the next part of the story, and while I know that Batman does not die, I would still love to know how he manages to escape fate and beat the Demon's ass.

I may not have understood much of this surprisingly ultraviolent comic as a kid, but I'm sure it was instrumental in cementing Batman my all-time favorite fictional character. And I'm probably the total geek I am today because of my love for this issue.

Up next on Nostalgia Week: "Holy shit, that's a lot of Batmans!"

Starting tomorrow: Nostalgia Week!

Starting on Tuesday, I will begin a celebration of those comics that hold a dear place in my heart. Mostly, they are comics I loved as a kid but never really understood as my comprehension of concepts such as international politics, interpersonal relationships, space/time and words were severely underdeveloped when I first read them. This week I take a look back at those single issues that made me the geek I am today and see just how they hold up now that I'm older.

Nostalgia Week may be a wonderfully light-hearted stroll down memory lane or it may be a series of soul-crushing realizations that I was one stupid kid.

First stop on the Nostalgia Express is my very first Batman comic, the surprisingly brutal Batman #446

Getting in the Christmas spirit with Batman

Batman fucking hates Christmas.

I need help with my Batman geekness!

So I'm trying to put together a detailed reading list for Post-Crisis Batman and the only major obstacle I have left is placing the stories from Legends of the Dark Knight somewhere into continuity. I was wondering if you people could help me place the storylines so I don't have to read each and every one to figure it out.

(Yeah, I know that LotDK is not often considered "in continuity," but I'm a completest, so I can't help it.)

I have a few storylines placed already. For instance, "Shaman," takes place some time before and after "Year One." "Venom" occurs before "Long Halloween" (or any other Two-Face origin of your choice) since Harvey Dent is still DA. "Grimm" takes place while Dick Grayson is newly Robin.

So, if you have any suggestions where I can place the storylines loosely in continuity, please let me know. I don't need detailed plot outlines (since I will eventually get around to reading them) just clues (i.e. Dick is Robin, Gordon is Captain, Oracle appears). Stuff like that. If there are no hints to continuity other than a general time frame, such as being an "early years" Batman story, that's okay since I'm making a category for such ambiguous stories.

Thanks and any help will be greatly appreciated!

UPADTE: No more need for help. I was able to get some tips from the ever-helpful nerds at thebatsquad.net and newsarama.com. I was finally able to place every LotDK story line loosely into continuity and now I'm ready to move on to better, less obsessive endeavors.

Starting December with a joke

Comic blog goddess Ragnell has asked her readers to put the words in White Tiger's mouth.

Here's my attempt. Click the image to get a better view.

Boy, am I glad November is over!

Yet another NaNoWriMo over and failed. Now that November is done,I can stop feeling guilty about how little progress I made on my graphic novel. Now I can just focus on the fact that I have some of it done.

November was a pretty slow month here at Continuity Error(!), although I don't exactly know why since I wasn't exactly punching out pages of my novel. By traffic stats for the month have up put me to shame. Well, December is another month. I've got some ideas kicking around my head, so if I just get to writing them, this should be a fun month.

Okay, let's do this!