Whedon and Cassaday taught me in Astonishing X-Men #10 that the best way to answer someone who gives you only enough time for one question is to say:
"Explain how __________"
I can't tell who's smarter, Whedon, Cassaday, Kirkman, Silvestri, McCoy, Xavier, Napier, Morrison, or who's on first. I'm on third, and I had a homemade Lemon Pyramid Hefeweizen for breakfast with a hybridized Thai Mexi Que Sah Dill, Ah.
Walking Dead #72 was the only comic I kept out of the 30.52 I spent yesterday on new books.
Comics should not cost 3.99 unless that extra dollar goes into quality of writing, or something tangible. a flashy cover will not get my 1.00.
In July 1997, a deluxe comic was $1.99 under marvel.
When I started collecting again a few years back, standard cover price was $2.99, I figured, hey, inflation, whatever, I'll buy in.
Well, I just boycotted two months of 3.99 comics published by the Big Two.
Wildstorm is the worst thing to ever happen to DC Comics next to Diane Nelson being the new president. Is this why Jonah Hex is rated PG-13?
Of course, its the lesser of two evils. At least Wildstorm is creator owned, and at least Jim Lee is talented and has proven himself time and again at DC.
As soon as Disney bought Marvel the Mouseketeer's hit the fan. I was about to buy New Avengers #1 yesterday until the youth behind the counter got his grubby fingerprints all over it to check the cover price. Thanks for the no-prize dude, I think I will boycott your store from now until forever.
Marvel and DC have proven their ability to suck time and again, but this Wednesday was the last straw. I hereby am shifting out my 3.99 pulls from DC and morphing them into a single IDW hard cover that doesn't have the sticky fingers of Warner Bros Entertainment all over it.
Then I'm just going to cancel everything Marvel I have in my queue at Not so Amazing Comics Long Beach, who actually refused to buy back my Marvel Masterpiece 5-d Captain America vs. Red Skull card that I kept in the case for 18 years, which is probably longer than the kid has been able to eat solid foods.
Peace-~=War, what's the difference when ignorance reigns the young and weak?
Comics should not cost 3.99 unless that extra dollar goes into quality of writing, or something tangible. a flashy cover will not get my 1.00.
In July 1997, a deluxe comic was $1.99 under marvel.
When I started collecting again a few years back, standard cover price was $2.99, I figured, hey, inflation, whatever, I'll buy in.
Well, I just boycotted two months of 3.99 comics published by the Big Two.
Wildstorm is the worst thing to ever happen to DC Comics next to Diane Nelson being the new president. Is this why Jonah Hex is rated PG-13?
Of course, its the lesser of two evils. At least Wildstorm is creator owned, and at least Jim Lee is talented and has proven himself time and again at DC.
As soon as Disney bought Marvel the Mouseketeer's hit the fan. I was about to buy New Avengers #1 yesterday until the youth behind the counter got his grubby fingerprints all over it to check the cover price. Thanks for the no-prize dude, I think I will boycott your store from now until forever.
Marvel and DC have proven their ability to suck time and again, but this Wednesday was the last straw. I hereby am shifting out my 3.99 pulls from DC and morphing them into a single IDW hard cover that doesn't have the sticky fingers of Warner Bros Entertainment all over it.
Then I'm just going to cancel everything Marvel I have in my queue at Not so Amazing Comics Long Beach, who actually refused to buy back my Marvel Masterpiece 5-d Captain America vs. Red Skull card that I kept in the case for 18 years, which is probably longer than the kid has been able to eat solid foods.
Peace-~=War, what's the difference when ignorance reigns the young and weak?
What Is The Teleharmonium?
A message to our agents in the field: Damn these things we call hands, and bless them for their leverage.
What is the Teleharmonium?
"Tele", from the Greek for "far". As in telephone, television, telekinesis, teletype. Spooky action at a distance.
"Harmonium", a musical instrument, from "harmony": accord, consonance, agreement.
Thus: teleharmonium. An instrument for bringing distant things into harmony -- or for bringing things into harmony from a distance.
At the turn of the last century there was a musical instrument called a telharmonium, a forerunner of the electronic organ. It was huge, and strange, and technologically ahead of its time.
We live, now, in environments huge and strange; environments made not by nature, but by ourselves, the work of our own minds and hands. A city is a great machine, but it is not mechanistic and it is not mechanical. Streets and buildings follow the lay of the land, but more than that they follow the patterns in ourselves: our psyches, our souls. We surround ourselves with reflections of the endless worlds we hold within us. The built environment is the largest Wunderkammer imaginable.
What is the Teleharmonium?
An organization, a project, a method, a goal. A post-industrial urban illuminati, a meeting of minds dedicated to the use of art and magic (which are the same thing) to restore our machines, our constructed landscapes, to life, to infuse them with purpose, to build order out of chaos with chaos as one of our tools. A conceptual engine, a different way of looking at the world. Every street is a pathway to enlightenment. Every building is a holy temple. The moments of ultimate knowledge that we once sought in deserts and on mountaintops come to us now in bus stops and subways and restaurants and factories. No one loves the city more than we do, except maybe you.
Art and ritual and music and a thousand other things, from cultivated gallery openings to mad preaching on public streets: all these and more are our tools, keys (and each of us carries a key) to unlock the world, the true nature of the Great Machine. We are not building the future. There is no future, only Now. Jam yesterday and jam tomorrow -- but if we want jam today we must jam today.
Build monuments to the strange. Sing hymns to the everyday. There is endless wonder in every moment, every thoroughfare and blind alley, every stone and every nook.
The constructed world is a magical place -- but that does not mean it's nice, or sweet, or cheerful. Endless wonder means endless terror: awe, confusion, fascination, fear -- the supreme shock of understanding, the catastrophe of knowledge. In every phenomenon and every brick, the seeds of destruction, which are the seeds of revelation. Of rebirth.
What is the Teleharmonium?
Exactly what the world needs.
We are your friends.
And we want only the best for you.
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