Things on hold.
Between purging the forces of evil (Read: Cleaning extensive bloatware from people’s computers.), among other work and Ebuyer taking a week to ship things they already had in stock: Current projects are on hold until the weekend. I still mean to walk up to the audiologist’s to look at getting my ear impressions made.
Mainstream Comics = Superficial? (At least on the surface.)
I’ve also been giving some thought to what exactly it is I mean by “Unusual” when it comes to comics. I feel that one of the defining traits that set what I’m looking for apart from most of the comics I see in the comic shop are that much of the usual super hero/sci-fi/fantasy fare appears to be, at least on the surface, concerned with what is on the surface (Larger than life characters, Awesome set-pieces, The stuff that makes you go “Oooh coorrr blimey”.) and, less trying to sell themselves on things like character depth and
Some may have noticed the title effectively states “Comics = Superficially Superficial” which I think is accurate. Comics, on the surface, seem to focus only on the surface. If they have depth, they sure aren’t trying to tell us about it.
Finding the right word to sum up “Non-superficial.” to use in the tag line for this site is proving difficult.
[This point needs more researching.]
