We were kind of hoping that NASA’s Curiosity rover would have sent this back as its first picture from Mars.
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anthonyhasabl0g asked:
In both It's Walky! and Shortpacked! you set up a normal reality and then altered it with science-fiction-y alien madness. Was that just because both comics took place in the same Walkyverse, or do you plan to do the same with Dumbing of Age?
Dumbing of Age features no aliens or outlandish science fiction. If I need to scratch my superheroics itch, that’s what Amazi-Girl’s there for. (Also Shortpacked! still persists, if I really need to go full-speed wacky.)
I don’t know what I did to get on Laura Hudson’s bad side (this is a lie, I know exactly what I did), but she assigned me to review Kevin Smith’s Comic Book Men, a new reality show set at Smith’s New Jersey comic book shop.
Much like the review, the show alternates between boring and hateful, especially where this Ed Greenwood looking motherfucker is concerned. It’s the closest thing television has ever had to a comments section, and that’s not a good thing.
“hey guys I have this totally legit plan to take over the world let’s build and a giant purple robot griffin and steal oil from the middle east there is no way this could go wrong or is stupid in any way whatsoever”
Giant purple griffin with a prehensile mane.
Makes all the difference.
Weird porn author who was dragged into Hugo Awards mess pulls off epic troll
For the second year in a row, a bunch of disgruntled “conservative” sf readers and writers are attempting to destroy science fiction’s Hugo Awards by nominating slates of works that are, variously: rabid racist tracts; works by their ideological opponents; tepid military sf; works by bystanders; and weird porn by Chuck Tingle, a master of the form, who has nothing to do with any of this.
Until now. When Tingle – who publishes “bizarre niche erotica” in great volume – discovered that his book Space Raptor Butt Invasion had been promoted to the Hugo ballot by spoilers hoping to discredit the award, he sprang into action. He created a new title, especially aimed at the “Puppies” (the two groups who want to kill the Hugos call themselves “Rabid Puppies” and “Sad Puppies” for fantastically tedious reasons you can look up for yourself if you care to): “Slammed In The Butt By My Hugo Award Nomination.”
Then Tingle took to Twitter, writing an amazing series of GIF-illustrated tweets, mocking Vox Day, avowed white supremacist and leader of the “Rabid Puppies.”
The crowning glory of Tingle’s campaign, though, was hisannouncement that his Hugo Award, should he win it, would be accepted by Zoe Quinn, the reigning bogeywoman of the Gamergate/neoreactionary right. In other words: every time a “Puppy” casts a vote for Tingle’s work, they cast a vote for giving Zoe Quinn a podium from which to address the entire World Science Fiction Convention about the importance of diversity and representation in fiction.
It is truly glorious.
https://boingboing.net/2016/05/06/weird-porn-author-who-was-drag.html
Chuck Tingle is the hero we deserve.
jido-aesthetic asked:
Ok you've got to explain this for those of us who picked things up at dumbing of age. Did Carla used to be some sort of talking super car?
One webcomic universe over, I once wrote a talking spaceship car (who everyone referred to with male pronouns) who later chose to be rebuilt as a robot lady. Dumbing of Age doesn’t have science fiction stuff like talking spaceship cars or robot ladies, and yet I really liked my talking spaceship car robot lady, so I made a human version who was inspired by that character named Carla.
I say “inspired” because Carla isn’t exactly that talking spaceship car robot lady, but a human woman who in her universe is a fan of that talking spaceship car robot lady’s cartoon series.
I hope I made that confusing enough.
I had never thought to put it in these words before, but I’m just going to sit here and blink slowly while I process how Willis just summed up at least half my moral qualms with Christianity in a single comment.
i like to think of myself as a mirror universe c.s. lewis
I, for one, am looking forward to your epic science fiction poem about a bunch of adults who step into a brightly-lit forest and wind up inside the closet.
They have to STOP CHRISTMAS FROM HAPPENING.
My old friend in comics Maritza Campos is stretching her science-fiction muscles alongside the incredibly talented Bachan in the new online miniseries/graphic-novel-in-the-making Power Nap.
It’s all about what happens when most of the world decides sleep is passe. Our protagonist is one of the holdouts who still sleeps, now regarded as somewhat disabled by his co-workers, boss and everyone else. But all is not what it seems.
Just a handful of pages up so far, so go get hooked!
WEBCOMIC RAMPAGE - AUSTIN TEXAS - THIS WEEKEND!!!
I will have shirts, books, prints, plushies, sketches and THE MYSTERY BOX!!!
My wife, Emily, will also be exhibiting with me and selling some of her geeky jewelry from her Etsy shop, Science & Fiction.
All the info is HERE, but this is the part you really need to know:
This year’s guest list features 16 awesome webcomic talents:
-Ryan North
-David Malki
-Alex Woolfson
-David McGuire
-Danielle Corsetto
-Joel Watson
-Randy Milholland
-Rob DenBlyker
-David Willis
-Lar De Souza
-EK Weaver
-Jeph Jacques
-Dusty Smith
-JD Saxon
-Dan Price
-Bonn Adame
-Bill Williams
ALSO MAGGIE IS COMING
atopfourthwall asked:
I would hope by now that 100+ years of science fiction writing on the subject of robots, androids, artificial intelligence, Frankenstein creations, and other similar subjects would have made the point pretty clear by now that they're people, too, so stop trying to say Ultra Car's rights don't matter. Do I need to sit people down with my Star Trek: The Next Generation DVDs and make them watch "The Measure of a Man?"
Yeah, but most of those robots, androids, artificial intelligences, Frankenstein creations, and what have you are, you know, dudes. Dude robots are built to be people.
Girl robots are built to be objects.
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