I’m officially a member of District 12. May the odds be ever with me. What District are you in? http://www.TheCapitol.PN
Classic look. Love it.
(via fecastleberry)
Boo.
$5/month? I found a lot of great eBay deals via Put This On. It’s just not worth the cost.
Please Welcome: The Inside Track
We get tons of fan mail for our weekly eBay roundups. Often, though, that fan mail comes with an edge: “why are you blowing up my spot?!” people wail. People want our picks, but they don’t want them to be public.
That’s why we’ve created The Put This On Inside Track. It’s an exclusive email list, with a weekly set of eBay picks that nobody else gets to see. It’s not quite a private curation just for you, but it’s as close as you’re likely to get. Every week, we send you picks that you won’t find anywhere else. Plus we throw in some cool sales and so forth when we hear about them.
The Inside Track is the first of two projects we’ll be pursuing using a cool new platform called Member.ly. It’s where our webmaster, the brilliant David Cole, works, and it’s an easy way to build subscriptions, virtual or material. (Hint: this one’s virtual, but the other one ain’t.)
It should be mentioned, by the way, that The Inside Track will be offered in addition to our regular twice-weekly roundup here on the website. Nothing’s going away.
So: if you want the inside track, sign up today. The whole thing only costs five bucks a month, and we’re sending out the first list at the start of October. It’s a bargain, even if you only bid once every couple months. And hey, you can always just look at it as payment for all that money you saved bidding on our Roundup picks ;).
Gotham’s Villains in Profile
Particularly impressed by the Two-Face profile.
Villainous Profiles by Memorypalace. Wonderful!
They might have been drunkards, but man, could they dress.
Detroit, the last day before Prohibition went into effect. 1920
Source: Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University
Not me, but I wish it was.
(via fecastleberry)
So beautiful. To think of what it looks like today…
Michigan Central Railroad Depot sometime around 1940.
Great documentary on the life of The Buddha. Watched it a couple of years ago and have been thinking about it ever since.
Review — Super Dinosaur #1 by Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard
Here’s the thing about writing for young adults: it’s extremely difficult to avoid being either too cutesy or too mature. Robert Kirkman (Invincible, The Walking Dead), through his signature blend of silly humor and nonstop action, deftly navigates the precarious Young Adult terrain in the new series Super Dinosaur, the first issue of which was released this week by Image Comics. Helped immensely by Jason Howard’s clean lines and smooth visual storytelling, Super Dinosaur provides young adult readers just the right blend of adventure and comedy to keep them wanting more by the time the issue comes to its dramatic cliffhanger end. And, honestly, it’s a whole lot of fun for adult readers as well.
The titular Super Dinosaur (or SD for short) is a talking, armored, armed Tyrannosaurus Rex from the middle of the earth. SD, Derek Dynamo (his teenage best friend and the son of the famous Doctor Dexter Dynamo), and Derek’s robot Wheels use their well-balanced combination of intellect and some pretty awesome robotic artillery to battle the evil Doctor Max Maximus. Though Derek loves teaming with SD and Wheels to launch fists and missiles at evil robots and Dino-Men, his biggest concern is that his father’s mental capacities are slowly fading. Like many teenagers, Derek has to grow up quickly, covering for his scientist father’s increasingly frequent mistakes by finishing his work, afraid to let his father know that he is not quite the scientist that he once was.
Super Dinosaur works so well because it manages to create a hero in Derek that young adults can relate to and aspire to be. He’s a seemingly normal teenager who cares deeply about his father and his friends (even if they are a nine foot tall dinosaur and a robot) and who loves adventure. Though he hasn’t been gifted with tremendous physical strength, his intelligence and empathy for his father inspire him to fight for what is right. Kirkman’s choice to have the Dino-Men as the villains is a thoughtful device to soften the impact of the violent acts that the heroes inflict upon their enemies, while providing the page-turning action that young adult readers expect. In the end, however, it is Derek’s relationship with his father that provides the drama that drives this story. Teenagers, maybe more than any other age group, understand what if feels like to be powerless, and should instantly respect and admire Derek’s efforts to protect his father.
Super Dinosaur is a fun-filled, action-packed adventure for readers of all ages. Howard’s art style is perfect for new comics readers, as the colors are vivid and the action is dynamic yet easy to follow (a concern expressed by many readers new to comics). Kirkman and Howard have a hit on their hands in Super Dinosaur, and readers should be excited to read what comes next.
