stoutfellow

Nanase Kitsune was the sixth of the main eight to put in an appearance: her turn.

( The fox knows many things )

Grace Sciuridae is next up.

( Squirrel! )

Tedd and Elliot were the first two characters to appear in EGS, so it's Elliot's turn, under the cut.

( Born wearing a Scout's uniform )

Of the major characters in El Goonish Shive, Tedd Verres is not exactly my favorite; far from it. But he was one of the first to appear, and his actions are central to the development of the plot, so he gets the first entry. Under the cut, of course.

( Technomage )

1. One of the best things about using a slow cooker is the way the cooking smells slowly pervade the house. (Savory Slow-Cooked Grains is on the menu for this week.)

2. It occurred to me to wonder just how many webcomics I follow. Some of them have LiveJournal feeds; the rest are sorted into folders in my Bookmark list - Comics M, Comics T, Comics W, etc., culminating in Comics U, for those whose schedule is not tied to the week. (Yes, that means that most comics appear in more than one folder. It's simpler for me, that way.) Anyway, I just pulled the data together and discovered that I currently follow no less than sixty-seven webcomics. The full list is under the cut.
( What I Read )

3. I just finished reading William Dampier's book on his voyage to New Holland and back. It's strangely engaging; not too much exciting happens, but his careful descriptions of what he saw in the places he touched land are interesting. (He's careful to distinguish what he actually saw from what people he met told him about; though he mentions the two-headed amphisbaena, for instance, he makes clear that he never saw one.) There are also a lot of drawings, of the lands he passed and of the animals and plants he mentions, but the display on the Kindle is too small. I may have to go through the copy on my home computer, just to look at the pictures.

I am indescribably pleased with Minmax - our Minmax, of course. No Intelligence or Wisdom to speak of, but damn, he knows how to win a fight! (Of course, the Villain's Taunting Monologue(tm) gave him the clue he needed, but nobody else thought of it....)

I haven't been as amused as usual by Skin Horse during the current storyline, but this strip, from a week or so ago, gives me the giggles. The female in the pink dress is a robot drone, previously operated by the cyborg helicopter Nick Zerhakker; Nick has just been pre-empted by an emergent AI who needs a body for a little while. Take a look.

Everblue is a quirky webcomic with, alas, a rather erratic posting schedule. The current sequence is a flashback, involving two of the characters (adoptive siblings). This strip and the two which follow are just... sweet. Check it out.

this is what we all dream of.

Has it ever been determined whether Superman's X-ray vision can penetrate his own eyelids? (Question prompted by the latest JL8 comic.)