Comments on: How I got into comics, or why there is hope for Bob Thompson http://eyeballman.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-i-got-into-comics-or-why-there-is-hope-for-bob-thompson/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:24:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Melinda http://eyeballman.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-i-got-into-comics-or-why-there-is-hope-for-bob-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-414 Melinda Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:33:11 +0000 http://eyeballman.com/blog/?p=325#comment-414 Ah, yes, I was really grateful to find a plugin that would let me cross-post to LJ easily. I have found that, overall, I prefer blogging over here, but I had enough LJ friends back in my fannish life who I knew would never stray from their friends lists, that I'm grateful for a way to still keep in easy contact with them. I've found it's convenient for some people I've met through this blog, too. So, welcome! :) Ah, yes, I was really grateful to find a plugin that would let me cross-post to LJ easily. I have found that, overall, I prefer blogging over here, but I had enough LJ friends back in my fannish life who I knew would never stray from their friends lists, that I’m grateful for a way to still keep in easy contact with them. I’ve found it’s convenient for some people I’ve met through this blog, too. So, welcome! :)

]]> By: Estara http://eyeballman.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-i-got-into-comics-or-why-there-is-hope-for-bob-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-412 Estara Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:26:27 +0000 http://eyeballman.com/blog/?p=325#comment-412 Well, since you're double posting to lj, too, I'll probably mostly comment on your posts there, from now ^^. It IS convenient, but like you I wanted to have some autonomy if the service changed too much or closed down, so I organises personal webspace and when I started blogging I started my own blog right away... I already lost two years of blogging because I didn't know how to import the stuff from sunlog to wordpress 1.2 :P, ah well. Well, since you’re double posting to lj, too, I’ll probably mostly comment on your posts there, from now ^^. It IS convenient, but like you I wanted to have some autonomy if the service changed too much or closed down, so I organises personal webspace and when I started blogging I started my own blog right away… I already lost two years of blogging because I didn’t know how to import the stuff from sunlog to wordpress 1.2 :P, ah well.

]]> By: Melinda http://eyeballman.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-i-got-into-comics-or-why-there-is-hope-for-bob-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Melinda Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:35:50 +0000 http://eyeballman.com/blog/?p=325#comment-409 Ah, I'm sorry you're not blogging much, but I'll poke around for what I can get. :) Ah, I’m sorry you’re not blogging much, but I’ll poke around for what I can get. :)

]]> By: Melinda http://eyeballman.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-i-got-into-comics-or-why-there-is-hope-for-bob-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Melinda Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:27:22 +0000 http://eyeballman.com/blog/?p=325#comment-406 Oh, thanks for the heads up! Oh, thanks for the heads up!

]]> By: Estara http://eyeballman.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-i-got-into-comics-or-why-there-is-hope-for-bob-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-395 Estara Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:59:24 +0000 http://eyeballman.com/blog/?p=325#comment-395 Oh and while waiting for my manga recommendation comment to show up as in moderation, a few asides. I ought to read your tags better, you already know of Basara and the OMF. Thank you for adding me to your blogroll, but it won't be really useful to you. I have stopped regular blogging for quite some time now, and just occasionally write something (mostly to vent steam for my real life - if you really want to read that, the password for those posts is temuair1 , I need one for my students). I do post regular comments on my lj reading list, though, but that's mostly as far as it goes. I came across your posts here via MangaBlog. Oh and while waiting for my manga recommendation comment to show up as in moderation, a few asides.

I ought to read your tags better, you already know of Basara and the OMF.

Thank you for adding me to your blogroll, but it won’t be really useful to you. I have stopped regular blogging for quite some time now, and just occasionally write something (mostly to vent steam for my real life - if you really want to read that, the password for those posts is temuair1 , I need one for my students). I do post regular comments on my lj reading list, though, but that’s mostly as far as it goes.

I came across your posts here via MangaBlog.

]]> By: Estara http://eyeballman.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-i-got-into-comics-or-why-there-is-hope-for-bob-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-392 Estara Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:11:12 +0000 http://eyeballman.com/blog/?p=325#comment-392 Oh and should you decided to go for Castle Waiting Volume 2, take the Fantagraphics homepage offer about those 10 pamphlets, because Amazon.com only has one offer at twice the cost. Oh and should you decided to go for Castle Waiting Volume 2, take the Fantagraphics homepage offer about those 10 pamphlets, because Amazon.com only has one offer at twice the cost.

]]> By: Estara http://eyeballman.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-i-got-into-comics-or-why-there-is-hope-for-bob-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-391 Estara Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:09:12 +0000 http://eyeballman.com/blog/?p=325#comment-391 So do I ^^, but she tends to have smaller arcs within her overarching storyline and if it should happen that she has to stop there, I'll simply be pleased that I do have the relevant pamphlets. Much like with Five Star Stories, whose mangaka seems to have stopped the English version after volume 26 (and he published them in graphic novel format), then again I haven't heard about a Japanese continuation of the series either. But since he has such a huge space opera time line and jumps between stories anyway, it's still a fulfilling collection. So do I ^^, but she tends to have smaller arcs within her overarching storyline and if it should happen that she has to stop there, I’ll simply be pleased that I do have the relevant pamphlets. Much like with Five Star Stories, whose mangaka seems to have stopped the English version after volume 26 (and he published them in graphic novel format), then again I haven’t heard about a Japanese continuation of the series either. But since he has such a huge space opera time line and jumps between stories anyway, it’s still a fulfilling collection.

]]> By: Melinda http://eyeballman.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-i-got-into-comics-or-why-there-is-hope-for-bob-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Melinda Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:47:40 +0000 http://eyeballman.com/blog/?p=325#comment-387 Oh, thanks! And I do prefer books, so I'll probably look into that if it seems like something I'll enjoy. Oh, thanks! And I do prefer books, so I’ll probably look into that if it seems like something I’ll enjoy.

]]> By: Melinda http://eyeballman.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-i-got-into-comics-or-why-there-is-hope-for-bob-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-386 Melinda Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:47:03 +0000 http://eyeballman.com/blog/?p=325#comment-386 Hee- I love that somehow in looking for things to link for me, you've ended up buying more comics. I hope that series gets finished, so you aren't left in the cold! Hee- I love that somehow in looking for things to link for me, you’ve ended up buying more comics. I hope that series gets finished, so you aren’t left in the cold!

]]> By: Estara http://eyeballman.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-i-got-into-comics-or-why-there-is-hope-for-bob-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-385 Estara Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:15:19 +0000 http://eyeballman.com/blog/?p=325#comment-385 And I might want to add for a shounen action like webcomic (with a story that gets ever huger and more dangerous) with a Jules Verne touch and a female heroine there's always Katja and Phil Foglio's Girl Genius http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ They collect the series, too, if you prefer books. And I might want to add for a shounen action like webcomic (with a story that gets ever huger and more dangerous) with a Jules Verne touch and a female heroine there’s always Katja and Phil Foglio’s Girl Genius
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
They collect the series, too, if you prefer books.

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