Lots of times I’ve been presented with a selection of fairly similar answers so even if it’s clear they’re all jokes, now I have to guess exactly what kind of sense humor the shadow has.

I talked to a Kelpie that had words to say about animal rights organizations in the human world and wanted to know what I would do with it. My options were “grill you and eat you for dinner,” “wear a fancy coat made out of your hide,” and “nothing.”

It’s that 5% Catholic Guilt they put in it for moisturizing.

Counterpoint: definitely read aloud, you might meet an interesting ghost.

Pfft. I bought a horde house a few years ago and have been finding shit ever since. So far an antler, several crystal, a bundle of dried sage, a large portrait of Hitler, several spent handgun shells, a BB gun, some Israeli coins buried in the back yard, and a silver mezuzah. Also most recently a GED and trashy…

She still hasn’t found a new shop. The old one was a little snooty but her only option. The last time I was there with her, the salesperson asked if she needed a gift receipt in case her son didn’t like them. My 65 year old, 4ft10 mother looked them square in the face and said, “No. I have no sons. I will be…

It’s a fascinating history. I can’t get over how crazy it gets sometimes, there’s no era that isn’t interesting.

Access is simple. If you want people to think more about their circumstances and their choices, then sure, work on outreach and education. But access will always be needed and no amount of education will change that. Birth control does fail, people will make mistakes, people need to be able to deal with that. …

I’m all for them having access to the pill and a woman’s right to choose.

You gotta pick your genres, is what it is.

Never. It’s content mining. A premade story that’s proven it can sell, has a built in audience, and casual name recognition? They love that shit. It’s why there was a live action Airbender. It’s why there are comic book movies. There aren’t a lot of properties that are built by their nature to only work in one…

Comic shops in certain areas are way healthy than others. Chicago has a thriving comics scene, and you find that in a lot of urban centers. But if you’re not in a big city or a college town, it’s hard. The shops you hear closing up tend to be in the suburbs and exurbs. The comic shop near my mother closed last…

The death of the newstand had a big hand in it. Their ubiquity helped comics a lot. When the collector’s market popped up and the companies stopped making comics returned (like magazines), comic shops were the only ones who wanted to carry deadstock. Imagine a Barnes & Nobles where they carry every issue of Vogue,…

That sounds way too much like my first experience at a comic store, except I was 12 and resorted to mail order. I’m a nice city now with a pretty good selection of comic stores. Even the store closest to neckbeardism is run by very good people who are into outreach in the community and have a huge space set up for…

Just look at allllll the other books Black Panther is outselling right now. Wonder what lessons he’s taking from that?

Here’s a thing to keep in mind: Marvel’s core characters? They’re not selling well either. This isn’t a problem with character diversity, it’s a problem with the company.

I’m saying that we’re not seeing a complete picture, because whatever other formats Marvel publishes in, this information is never released. No company wants to talk about digital sales because they are terrified (and poorly equipped) of the digital market, so those numbers are never part of the conversation. Even…

The problem with that statement though is that their core Legacy White Guy Comics aren’t selling will either. It makes the news when Hellcat’s numbers aren’t doing gangbusters, but the fact that Iron Man is barely selling 36,000 comics a month and sits at number 56 on the top 300 chart? And that’s Straight White…

Listen and follow introduction advice. A friend of mine has a very sweet and people friendly cat, 6 years old or so, and found herself much in the same situation as you. She decided Cat 1 needed a friend to keep her company and the results weren’t great. Cat 2 was about a year old, larger than Cat 1, and a stray…

My dream scenario is that they prove enough Russian interference in the whole process to invalidate the entire election and Trump and Pence get kicked out together. Either Hillary becomes the defacto president or we have another election as soon as possible. The entire election was poisonous and I want a do-over.