Today I arrive home from my football (soccer) practice to my long waited book order: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes! - Three very nice bound volume books.
According to the ' legend' these volumes contain every single comic strip of Calvin, ever published, but one.
Programs such as Photoshop are very cool, but they are very expensive as well.
If you're not a professional in the field you'll never think in buying it. Smaller versions of these software do exist, and they are alright if you want to remove the "red eyes" from the family photos. But these programs are always so limited...
Meet GIMP aka GNU Image Manipulation Program. - Gimp is free to use, is Open Source, and runs in Windows, Mac or Linux.
If you are reading this you are probably interested in image manipulation, to personalize your profile, avatar or something like that. Gimp has the right tools.
Yeps! Two for the price of one! Other candidates would be Action Comics, Superman, Supergirl, Ms Marvel, Flash, Green Lantern Corps or The Amazing Spider-man!
The thing is all of the mentioned comic books are at the same time focus in just one character and now and then tied up to big crossovers.... The Superman / Batman has two of my favorite superheroes, who happen to be very different from each other and usually this Comic Book isn't tied up to giant-crossovers, meaning I can just pick up the book and enjoy it on its own. Also sometimes, not often enough for me, we have guess appearances!
Other candidates would be Action Comics, Superman, Supergirl, Ms Marvel, Flash, Green Lantern Corps or The Amazing Spider-man!
The thing is all of the mentioned comic books are at the same time focus in just one character and now and then tied up to big crossovers.... The Superman / Batman has two of my favorite superheroes, who happen to be very different from each other and usually this Comic Book isn't tied up to giant-crossovers, meaning I can just pick up the book and enjoy it on its own. Also sometimes, not often enough for me, we have guess appearances!
Initially I would let everybody do their jobs, meaning everybody would be working as planned, to maintain business, but as my personal agenda I would do three things:
Crossovers - I love mixed universes, so I would make all the deals I could with other companies to make to most awesome quick-ass crossovers ever!
My own personal universe - As a secondary thing I would write my own little universe in a comic book, and see if you guys, my felow readers would enjoy it as I would.... :P
World Expansion! - The world would know the coolness of Marvel! I will try to slowly introduce superheroes to many, many other countries - Yes this would mean more stories on Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa and how knows maybe Antarctica!
Music helps me close myself from the world around and focus in what I'm reading. It also allows me to control my mood, so I change my playlist acording to what I am going to read!
Eating is too disctractive, and my hands are not to trust with food around stuff like books!
I can no longer spell Comics without Comic Vine. I've watch the website being a developed over the last months (at least two makeovers without counting with all the cool gadgets!) I've met cool people on the comunity; I read some nice stuff here and discovered a lot of new comic characters! And I don’t even know how we ever survived without G-man and Babs’ reviews! - But it's time to go now.
Due to the lack of time I haven't been catching up the latest comics, and time is running out more and more! I'll be more focus on some personal objectives and projects, and so I won't be on the Comic Vine, not as much as I use to at least. I'll be visiting you guys in the next days, but then I might be some long time without appearing!
Just wanted to say a nice and warm goodbye to you all! – I wish you all the very best!
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