Links van 3 juni 2011 tot 4 juni 2011

Well, What’s the Matter? – The COMPLETE definitive Catwoman origin.For Bruce Wayne, it took seeing his parents murdered in front of him; Jonathan Crane, a lifetime of ridicule and pain; Harley Quinn, all-consuming obsessive love. All the best heroes and villains in every medium, from literature to film to comic books, have traceable motivations for …

Links van 23 mei 2011 tot 24 mei 2011

Acne science: What makes pimples so peculiar to people? – By Jesse Bering – Slate MagazineHumans are pimply. It's part of what sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. While it's true that some form of acne vulgaris affects other species—it's been found in some Mexican hairless dogs and induced experimentally in …

Links van 18 maart 2011 tot 19 maart 2011

Scocca : Would a No-Fly Zone Over America Save the Democracy Movement in Bahrain?The helpful thing, if you're overwhelmed by so much news going on at once, is that Bahrain is roughly the same story as Libya—only instead of pro-democracy protesters being murdered by a terrorist-sponsoring monster of a dictator who has been on America's …

Philippe Druillet

Helemaal toevallig kwam ik zonet bij een hele schatkamer invloeden uit mijn jeugd terecht. Ik was iets aan het zoeken over Cyrillus van Jeruzalem, en toen kwam ik op Augustinus terecht, en van daar bij Carthago, en van daar bij Flaubert’s Salammbô, en van daar kwam ik bij Philippe Druillet uit. Wij hadden thuis in …

Absolute Sandman

Allez ju, ik zal weer mijnen bruinen mogen opentrekken. Kijk alhier, Sandman vóór en na (klik voor groter): Te lezen bij CBR: “Absolute Sandman” collects the first 20 issues of Neil Gaiman’s groundbreaking series, with 18 of the 20 stories completely re-colored. As can be seen by the example shown, the new colors look spectacular. …