March 2012
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Still Glad I Was Able to Talk to These Guys
Walt: …how does religion factor into The Unwritten? I know it’s a topic people want to shy away from because people don’t want to offend others. Having worked on Lucifer, it seems neither one of you have a problem touching on religion. Will this be coming into effect in the book, or is this not the place to talk about it?
Peter: Well, we’re definitely not going to be having that Quran arc we talked about. (laughs)
Mike: I think there is a sense that the whole book is about religion. The whole book is about belief. As Wallace Stevens said in Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction, “belief must be in a fiction.” It’s only a question of what fiction you choose. Because ideas are made things. Ideas are things that originate in our minds. Maybe they have an objective reality or maybe they don’t. But we believe in them as stories. So everything in our book is about religion.
Peter: I think one of my core things going into this that…let’s take something like The Bible. I’m fine with saying that is a world-changing book. The ideas in that book are all worth considering and acting on. But for me, it’s not important for it to not be a story. But a lot of people need it to be literally true. I think that’s a core idea we want to talk about. Why is it that people think a story is less important than a literal truth, when in fact, it’s not? Everything about the world is a story we tell ourselves. For me, if people were comfortable saying that the Bible is the most important book in Western Culture, but it comes from story place. We’d have a lot less problems in this world, if we’d just comfortably leave story things in story place. But also accept that those things are of equal importance to other things in this world.
Mike: There’s another text which is very important to me when I’m writing The Unwritten…Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, where he has the religion of Bokononism, and in that religion they have a concept of foma, which are lies, but they aren’t any less important for being lies. The religion says live by the foma that make you happy and good. Lies can impact the truth. Lies can have a positive and negative reality.
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oh no reason just comics: I mean in what fucking... →
no-i-in-threesome:
Even if people were racist against you for being German—and how could they be? You can’t look at a person and tell they are German like you can look at a person and tell they are black, and German is not a race, it’s a nationality. WHITE is a race and it’s what you are….
I’m not sticking up for whoever this is in response to, but that first paragraph is pretty...
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Objective Reviewing?
First of all, to those of you who don’t give a damn about comics, please ignore my complete nerding out. Second, is it bad form to talk shit about other reviewers? If so, I’ll preface this by saying that these are my personal beliefs, and that I do not at all speak for the rest of Multiversity Comics.
I would just like to point out something I read in a review today of Wonder Woman...
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“The problem isn’t just that we have to get folks to buy [Captain Marvel]; it’s...”
– Kelly Sue DeConnick on the dichotomous folly/urgency of pre-ordering comics, and her new “Captain Marvel” series, in an interview by Albert Ching at Newsarama.com. (via bowtiemoustache)
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Mother Says
Mother says I cannot shout She insists I shouldn’t pout I oughtn’t belch, I mustn’t tease, I absolutely must say please But father yells and makes a fuss And is also prone to cuss He mopes about, he moans and groans — In the most unpleasant tones He grunts and yawns and loudly farts, Scratching at his private parts “Please” he’ll almost always say In the most...
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I helped Krist Novoselic use the internet
rockandrolltedium:
He sat down next to me at an internet cafe and asked me how to get the internet working. I showed him how. I couldn’t work out why my friend was elbowing me, until we left the shop and she told me who he was.
I also once almost ran headlong into Nick Cave’s abdomen (I’m only 5’), tried to dodge and ran into Warren Ellis instead.
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The Edge of Earth
“Old Chris Columbus was a fraud — Our planet can’t be round The ground looks flat, but really curves? That logic isn’t sound!” This I remarked as I set out With just one goal in aim: I’d travel to the edge of Earth To verify my claim Too young to drive my mother’s car, Too poor to go by plane, I chose instead to go by foot — Though Dad thought it insane I...
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I saw Thom Yorke having a coffee
rockandrolltedium:
I was in Caffe Nero with some friends when I realised that the man at the table nearby looked familiar.
“Oh!” I said. “Isn’t that Thom Yorke?”
It was. As he got up to leave, he noticed us staring and smirked. Then he left.
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Everything is slowly coming together, but still...
The panel I am a part of has been accepted for the Children’s Literature Association 2012 Conference. This is, for me, pretty exciting, but it also means I have a bit under three months to rewrite a paper from sophomore year until it is twice as long and three times as interesting and well-researched. This should not be too much of a problem, but since I am pretty busy already, the small...
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“What fascinates me about [Marvel’s] Thor is the culture-clash elements and...”
– Kieron Gillen
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