Are you talking about philosophy or the committee?

[sovay]

And courtesy of shweta_narayan, the webcomic that ate my life yesterday: Family Man. The Enlightenment! Judaism! University politics! Theological debates! In-jokes about Ovid! In-jokes about Rousseau! Careful research of taxonomically appropriate pine trees! Our half-Jewish protagonist just tried to defend a dissertation on Spinoza at Göttingen in 1768. The werewolves at his new lectureship are the least of his problems.

In the meantime, Kate Beaton has been reviewed by The Economist.

I am not doing anything near that interesting today. I still have this book, though.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

If The Economist called me "resolutely silly," I'd be over the moon. Mind you, I'd have to be as good as Kate Beaton.

Family Man? All that and gorgeous. I will try to set aside a day to fall into it.

Everyone: that book is fabulous.

Nine

[sovay]

If The Economist called me "resolutely silly," I'd be over the moon.

I expect to see it on the cover of all future books of hers.

Family Man? All that and gorgeous. I will try to set aside a day to fall into it.

To be fair, it took me about an hour to read the archives, but it is still worth falling into. I am contemplating the print volume.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

I looked at the "current" strip. Don't understand it at all. Maybe if I look at back entries, it will make more sense.

[sovay]

I looked at the "current" strip. Don't understand it at all. Maybe if I look at back entries, it will make more sense.

I believe that is generally the recommended method of reading stories.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Some webcomics are strips (you can start anywhere) and some are graphic novels being published serially. Family Man is the latter.

I recall it being more crudely drawn; I tried to read it awhile back and couldn't get into it. The characters' individuation still needs some work, but the story's putting pieces in place for something big and interesting, it seems.

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

Bite Me is more crudely drawn, being Dylan's earlier work. Might that be what you're thinking of?

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

No, it was definitely a b/w comic I recall, and not in full-page format as the present version is presented but in shorter strip-like bits.

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

Then I have no idea, because I've been reading Family Man since it was at the prologue, and it's always looked this way...

Must be merging multiverses.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I want to read both of these. Just as soon as I get free time. I hope they have internet in Hel.

[sovay]

I hope they have internet in Hel.

Her hall is called sleet-damp, her plate hunger, her knife famine, her bed sickbed and her internet OMG WHERE DID MY LIFE GO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT WAS MY LIFE . . .

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Her internet is 4chan.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Right, so death in battle it is. Though somehow, I bet Valhalla is probably all about lolcats.

[caprine.livejournal.com]

Entire thread made of win. Thank you.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

Nothing substantive to say except that your user icon looks so very much like my sister that it's uncanny.

[caprine.livejournal.com]

If I have a twin out there born of different parents I am delighted to hear it.

[sovay]

Her internet is 4chan.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Do you read Al'Rashad (http://mightygodking.com/index.php/alrashad-city-of-myths/) already, by the way? If not, you may wish to add it...

I believe there are feeds on both DW and LJ. Once a week, not high-volume.

[sovay]

Do you read Al'Rashad already, by the way? If not, you may wish to add it...

Thanks! I haven't even heard of it, which means very little; I read more webcomics than I think, but probably a comparably small selection. (Girl Genius, Narbonic: Director's Cut, Skin Horse, 2D Goggles, The Desert Peach, Hark! A Vagrant, xkcd and Wondermark when I remember about them, and now these two.)

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

YOU MUST ADD GUNNERKRIGG COURT.

Start at the beginning.

http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1

[sovay]

YOU MUST ADD GUNNERKRIGG COURT.

I'm reading that one in book form!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Chris Bird, Al'Rashad's writer, is a former student of mine. The comic originated as an unproduced screenplay that I remember him showing me after class.

[sovay]

The comic originated as an unproduced screenplay that I remember him showing me after class.

How was the screenplay?

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Good. I think he's extended it somewhat in various directions, but it still strikes me as very faithful to the original.

[sovay]

Good. I think he's extended it somewhat in various directions, but it still strikes me as very faithful to the original.

Cool!

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I find "Prospero's" review of Hark! A Vagrant! unintentionally funny. He sounds like such a stuffed shirt, I can't help but see him as a Kate Beaton cartoon of a little spherical Prospero with a long beard, spouting on in recursive language while Miranda plays with her Legos. Or Queen Victoria. ("We are amused. More cute cat pictures at once.")

[sovay]

He sounds like such a stuffed shirt, I can't help but see him as a Kate Beaton cartoon of a little spherical Prospero with a long beard, spouting on in recursive language while Miranda plays with her Legos.

I like that image, but I thought it was a perfectly reasonable review.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I can't put my finger on one thing that actually sounds stuffed-shirty, I must admit. It's more to do with the very task Prospero has undertaken--reviewing funny stuff and explaining what makes it so funny. Whenever anyone tries to quantify the things that make them laugh, no matter how straightforward the laugh may be, they always seem to make it sound unnecessarily complex. Such as I'm doing now, trying to explain why I laughed at Prospero. Oh, well, it's late at night.

Really I'm ignoring the wonderful thing, which is that Kate Beaton got a glowing review. More of this sort of thing!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

It looks as if that's another comic I'll have to be careful about reading.*

I'm pleased with the Kate Beaton review. First The Economist, then the world.

I hope it's a pleasant day despite not being near so interesting.

I still have this book, though.

It's a good one.

*IOW, I suspect I'd like it.

[sovay]

It looks as if that's another comic I'll have to be careful about reading.

Well, only if you don't want to be educated about eighteenth-century academia.

First The Economist, then the world.

I want that as a slogan.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Well, only if you don't want to be educated about eighteenth-century academia.

The problem is that I also need to be educated about other things as well. Or at least to pay attention to them.

I want that as a slogan.

I doubt I'm the first to say it, but to whatever degree it is mine to give you may now consider it your very own slogan.

[genarti]

Oh, Family Man! I keep meaning to do a post recommending it to everyone I know, because it really is fabulous. A very specific and geeky kind of fabulous, but this is true of most of my friends too. So that works out.

(Plus I have met the author -- she and my brother were friends in college -- and she's delightful. So that would be a point in its favor for me even if it weren't independently excellent.)

[sovay]

I keep meaning to do a post recommending it to everyone I know, because it really is fabulous.

You should. I'd never heard of it until the day before yesterday.

(Plus I have met the author -- she and my brother were friends in college -- and she's delightful. So that would be a point in its favor for me even if it weren't independently excellent.)

That's cool!

[genarti]

I have made a note to myself to do so! Webcomics are something I'm very bad at remembering to follow regularly, so I'm always startled to find out that I'm not in fact the last person to know about one. Even when logic says I ought to know better.