Still not dead.
I've been trying to settle into my new life. It's been a bit bumpier than expected; I lived with my family for more or less 23 years, and extricating myself suddenly to plunge into the society of strangers (for the most part) hasn't been the most comfortable experience. I'm doing fine: I have a pair of rather spiffy roommates, a good starter job, and my best friend is currently living in the area. Plus, the family only lives half a state away . . . I don't have a car, but I'm sure to see them frequently enough. But still.
However! Now that I have Photoshop again (purchased with my own hard-earned money, by gods, only with a significant discount courtesy of my workplace), I hope to find myself more inspired. (Having a potential audience does help, I confess!) I haven't been drawing all that much, and struggling with what I have been doing, but things can only improve. Much like the weather.

Meanwhile, I haven't forgotten that meme I posted . . . months ago, eep. The terms of this one call only for links, not comments, so I hope you'll forgive me, loves. (As always, this was super hard to narrow down!)
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(Given how long we've known each other, how large your body of work is, and the fact that I've done something of this sort before . . . I've decided to pick from your more or less recent work. ^^)
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I can't do you because you seem to have deleted your last year's work, and vanished.

Miss you.
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[link]honorable mention:
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[link]You may consider yourselves tagged, or not.

Whatever you like.
I am immensely behind on my watchlist. (Or rather, on commenting on it. I've been watching silently, and enjoying a great deal.) Not sure when I'll catch up! But, you should be hearing from me more.

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thanks for the add
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"Why would the universe make fun of us all?"
"Maybe it's insecure."
I read WaveDancers for several issues but I don't think they had a conclusion either, because their story meets up with that of Cutter and co in some projected storyline we haven't really seen yet. I think.
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Hrm, yes, the rape thing is going to bother me too. I guess it's good if the gender stuff is mixed-and-matched, though it's still not my favorite thing. The book's good enough that it wouldn't bother me too much, anyway. I'll have to get more sometime . . . I haven't been buying as much lately, but our library system is getting really good for trades and graphic novels.
As for the responsibility of art towards viewer, it's a tricky subject, and I find that I'm not quite at a point to articulate my views on it yet . . . not a straight-up for or against, I think, it's more complicated than that.
I kind of have a mermaid thing? What frustrated me the most, though, is that I only ever found one issue (and read another, the first one, which they used to have hosted on the WaRP Graphics website). I hate not being able to finish a story.
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I see your point about the gender attitude in the sex issue of Promethea. Later on in the series you see homosexual ritual sex magic, though, and a male magician who takes on the female part as a part of a mystic quest. There is a strong sense of gender awareness in the whole thing, of course. The only thing that really bothered me still even after a long think was one part later on in the series where they enter Binah, and the sexual energy of that place is defined as rape, of all things - rape of Selene, and the characters even say "It's almost like she wanted it, that it had to happen". Greek mythology has forced intercourse all over it, true, but there are too many ways to interpret the Sephirot for it to be necessary to assign rape as the divine source of the universe. IMHO. I'm not sure exactly which magical teaching Moore is following, if any, though I'd guess it's the magicians' Cabbala. While I'm not much about the responsibility of art towards viewer - wouldn't want to shackle something powerful just to protect impressionable minds - I also think it's rather irresponsible to put forward an idea like "it was rape, but she wanted it" out there. CONTRADICTION IN GODDAMN TERMS. I still really like the whole series, there is so much good stuff in it, and I recommend a read, but yeah.
I read Wavedancers too, but I never really got into it, and forgot most of it now. And I feel pretty much the same way about Jink. I didn't love it, but I wish it had a conclusion.
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Oh, I suppose it was shallow of me to have issues with it.
Yeah, I wished the Rebels had some kind of conclusion . . . Jink too (didn't love it, but it left off at a really weird place). And I was kind of bitter about the original Wavedancers series. (I have one issue. Sigh.)
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I've only read the original BoM miniseries, so I hadn't noticed, but wtf.
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I loved the Promethea issue that was all ritual sex.
With EQ - well, I was living in Finland, we had a couple of good comic book stores but with my irregular income and all I still missed out on a lot of those issues, even with series I was really keen to follow. What can you do? But I didn't really like all the splinter series - I loved The Rebels, go figure. I wish they had a proper ending.
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That's all right, I'm still totally flattered.
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*nod* I've felt the same about all the Promethea I've read so far . . . though I was a little squicked by the issue with the sex and the old sorcerer guy.
*chuckle* Yeah, I can't resist the lure of Buffy S8 either. Particularly not the current arc, with Faith being written by BKV. And with ElfQuest (one of my earliest non-superhero books), I'd go looking for old single issues even of the collected stories because the collections were a bit pricy. (And yeah, they never collected some of those later stories! What's up with that?)
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I loved Promethea. It got a bit preachy, but the art and layouts were amazing and it's cool to see such material as the alchemists' Cabbala dealt with in erudite detail in comics. And I liked the characters and ideas a lot.
One of the first comics I got addicted on was Elfquest, long ago. I bought the collections, but when it splintered I bought single issues, because they weren't even being collected. Now I'm actually buying Buffy Season Eight... It works so much better as a TV-series, but it's canon so I Must Have It.
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Mmm, Lucifer is one of my all-time favorite titles as well. (I'm a bit preoccupied with similar subject matter, in my own work.) Promethea I've only read a little of . . . need more, it's awesome.
I tend to buy half my comics in issues and half in trade . . . it really depends on how I started out reading the series. The only time I switched was Strangers in Paradise, actually . . . I found that I couldn't *wait* for the new volumes, so having devoured all the trades up to that point (about half the series), I switched to reading it every month.
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